You have to figure that stage 1 is going to happen anywhere there is any level of diplomatic presence and it is unavoidable due to common diplomatic protocols.

It also takes place, hugely, in the spy agencies and homeland security. We saw the crossover in Michigan when Muslim agents put the target designator on the Hutaree because they wanted to show peope of their faith that there was an "even handed approach" to religious extremism. Thus operatives like Matt Sabino (a mulatto American convert, not an Arab) and Dearborn Police Chief Mike Haddad (Lebanese descent) were indulged in their campaign against an armed Christian group.

I have been told by a reliable source that the Saudi government is known to operate six diplomatic investigative sites inside the US which conduct investigations and operations on behalf of the Saudi government. These operations frequently employ off duty and semi retired federal agents so their operations may be indistinguishable from "regular" federal special investigations, but in reality they are targeting designated enemies of the Saudis who in turn see themselves as defenders of Islam everywhere. In some places they will cash sponsor terrorism, other places they openly run legal pressure. In America, as we have all leaned, the law and law enforcement is a political weapon. How thoroughly someone can snitch off someone else or set them up or investigate their background and find some thing to use in court is a lesson many of us have learned the hard way, and what was clearly demonstrated in the case against the Hutaree. It is also my personal opinion that they have been the mechanism by which a lot of military personnel have been "taken down" one way or another though legal pressure and psychological warfare along with intelligence gathering against particularly effective warrior types who have fought or would fight in the Middle East. I am seeing the profiling and targeting going all the way down to grade school level and when it's done to these kids, they never see it coming.

Then here is where it gets kind of strange. They have some sort of rivalry with the Turks, and on top of that work closely with the Israelis, but apparently some faction of the Israelis.

Bottom line, they are going to have access to the full intelligence feed about you and may be able to conduct operations right under the noses of the US government, if not demanding and getting agency level cooperation. That's you and eloquent arguments over religion and patriotism against Saudis paying some semi-retired federal agent $2,000 a day to run a Cointelpro level campaign against you because someone in Saudi Arabia didn't like your Facebook Meme.

What you can expect to see is a level of intelligence agency parlay, where they are "allowed" to have their way in cases against "Christian extremists" in return for allowing cases against this or that Islamic State new recruit or sympathizer, but the real game is the consolidation of political influence, not the bodycount produced by a shopping mall shooter.