Indeed, don't blame the Saudi. In my twelve years there I found that at least half of the incidents were done by expats. For example, northbound in a TriStar over Cairo at FL310, the flight was told to reduce speed to cross METRU at ....UTC. The Captain (PF) decided the best way to do this was to extend flaps to 4 degrees (at M.86). Result: two slat sections went "missing" and four others were ah.....bent. The Captain: British expat!