Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia
Location	Middle East, Asia
Type	nation state
Subgroups	Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah
Interest of	CENTCOM, Michael Fawcett, House of Saud
Member of	Arab League, G-20, Global Counter Terrorism Forum, Safari Club, UN
Subpage	•Saudi Arabia/Ambassador •Saudi Arabia/Deep state •Saudi Arabia/Foreign Minister •Saudi Arabia/Nuclear Weapons •Saudi Arabia/Visa fraud
Longtime political ally of the USA, Saudi Arabia possesses larger easily accessible oil reserves than any other nation state.

Saudi Arabia is a large nation state in the Middle East with a strict form of Sharia law. It has huge oil reserves. The US struck a deal ^{[When?][Where?]} to keep the Saudi Royal family in power as long as they have easy access to Saudi oil. The Saudi intelligence service assisted the US deep state in carrying out the September 11th attacks.

In 2018, Saudi Arabia was #4 in the world in terms of military expenditure at 82.9 US$bn.

Official narrative

Commercially-controlled media do not say much about the human rights record of the Saudi government. The country has what was termed in Vice an "antiquated legal system based primarily around sharia law", and beheaded dozens of its citizens in 2014, for example.

Internal opposition

Grand Mosque seizure 1979

The Grand Mosque seizure occurred during November and December 1979 when extremist insurgents called for the overthrow of the House of Saud took over Masjid al-Haram in Mecca. The insurgents declared that the Mahdi (the "redeemer of Islam") had arrived in the form of one of their leader – Mohammed Abdullah al-Qahtani – and called on Muslims to obey him.

Saudi troops and Special Forces were overpowered during their attempts to take back the structure. The seizure of Islam's holiest site, the taking of hostages from the worshippers and the deaths of hundreds of security forces, militants and hostages caught in the crossfire shocked the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic world. Paul Barril and two other French trainers were flown in to advice the soldiers. Details about the operation were kept secret for decades. It ended two weeks after the takeover began.

Following the attack, the Saudi King Khaled implemented a stricter enforcement of Shariah and he gave religious conservatives more power over the next decade; commentators note that this was the one defining event that brought Saudi Arabia to were it is today politically.

Sheikh Nimr

Abby Martin takes us inside the brutal reality of the Saudi police-state monarchy

In 2012, the prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr, who had called for free elections in Saudi Arabia, was arrested and subsequently tortured. On 15 October 2014, he was sentenced to death by the Specialised Criminal Court for "seeking 'foreign meddling' in Saudi Arabia, 'disobeying' its rulers and taking up arms against the security forces" and his brother, Mohammad al-Nimr, was arrested on the same day for tweeting information about the death sentence. His nephew, Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr, who also participated in the 2011–12 Saudi Arabian protests, was arrested in 2012, sentenced to death in 2014, and expected ratification of his sentence by King Salman of Saudi Arabia, to be carried out by beheading and crucifixion. The hacker collective, 'Anonymous', protested the plan to kill him and later launched DDOS attacks in protest.

In January 2016, Saudi Arabia executed Sheikh Nimr.

Fossil fuel reserves

Saudi Arabia has the largest easily accessible oil reserves in the world, which it sells for petrodollars. Saudi Arabia also has the 6th largest gas reserves of any nation state, nearly 5% of total global reserves.

Human rights

Saudi Arabia has Islamic Sharia laws which allow the death penalty to be imposed for murder, rape, apostasy, armed robbery, drug trafficking and repeated drug use. Amputations and public floggings are also carried out, leading to criticism by the United Nations Committee against Torture. Saudi Arabia is reported to have killed 48 people in the first 4 months of 2018, half for non-violent drug charges.

UNHRC

In September 2015, Faisal bin Hassan Trad, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the UN in Geneva, was elected Chair of the UNHRC Advisory Committee, the panel that appoints independent experts. UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said:

"It is scandalous that the UN chose a country that has beheaded more people this year (2015) than ISIS to be head of a key human rights panel. Petro-dollars and politics have trumped human rights." Saudi Arabia also shut down criticism, during the UN meeting.

In September 2017, US President Donald Trump said:

"It is an 'embarrassment' that there are countries on the UN human rights panel that have themselves committed atrocities", but not naming any particular country.

Meet the new head of the United Nations panel on Human Rights: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Abby Martin takes us inside the brutal reality of this police-state monarchy, and tells the untold people's history of resistance to it. With a major, catastrophic war in Yemen and looming high-profile executions of activists, The Empire Files exposes true nature of the US-Saudi love affair.

Women

In 2019 Saudi Arabis announced that it would grant passports to women above 21 and allow them to travel without a male guardian.

Foreign policy

Saudi minister of Gulf affairs, Thamer al-Sabhan, said on 6 November, 2017 that Lebanon had declared war against Saudi Arabia because of what he described as aggression against the Kingdom by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah.

Sponsorship of "Terrorism"

“Saudi Arabia is the Arab world’s leading state sponsor of terror. It backs ISIS, al-Qaeda, its al-Nusra offshoot and other terrorist groups – supplying them with weapons (including CWs), munitions, funding and other material support.”
Stephen Lendman (27 November 2017) 

The report of the US government's first inquiry into 9/11 contained 15 pages that were redacted before publication, outlining Saudi sponsorship of the "19 hijackers". A July 2018 article in Zerohedge commented that "the Saudis are constantly maneuvering to keep the American public in the dark concerning their role in 9/11".

US special relationship

As noted by John Perkins in Confessions Of An Economic Hitman, the US has a long standing secret deal to support the Saudi government as long as it has easy access to Saudi oil. CIA/Deep State operative Frank Terpil admits working for the government of Saudi Arabia.

Since President Obama took power, the US has been distancing itself from Saudi Arabia. The most notable single step in this process was probably the Obama administration's decision to declassify the 28 pages of the9-11/Joint Congressional Inquiry, which indicate that Saudi Arabia was involved in 9-11.

Weapons

Saudi Arabia Live Ammo Display at Night

Saudi Arabia was the recipient of arms in the corrupt multi-billion dollar Al-Yamamah arms deal with the UK. In 2011, the USA sold $33.4 billion of weapons to the kingdom, just over half its total weapons sales that year. In 2017, the US agreed a $350 billion arms deal for the next 10 years. Between 2012-2016, Saudi was one of only 2 states to account for over 5% of global weapons imports (the other being India).

Nuclear Weapons

Full article: Saudi Arabia/Nuclear Weapons

In May 2015, the Sunday Times reported that Saudi Arabia had decided to buy nuclear weapons from Pakistan.

COVID-19

Saudi Arabia has enacted social distancing policies at cultural and religious sites.

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author
George Curzon	“[We need an] Arab facade ruled and administered under British guidance and controlled by a native Mohammedan and, as far as possible, by an Arab staff…. There should be no actual incorporation of the conquered territory in the dominions of the conqueror, but the absorption may be veiled by such constitutional fictions as a protectorate, a sphere of influence, a buffer state and so on.””	George Curzon
Philip Haney	“(He) was ordered by the DHS to alter or modify information because it was not politically correct. The problem with Saudi Arabia in relation to terrorism, said Haney, is that the country supports Islamic schools called madrasas in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. They send Saudi males there to be educated in Koranic theology and other Islamic texts, and these schools often function as a breeding ground for terrorist organizations”	Philip Haney

 

Events

Event	Description
2024 Persian Gulf floods	Severe flash floods in a arid desert kill dozens in countries known for documented geoengineering. CCM quick to copy spokespersons denying any link to geoengineering, after one admitted this to be the caused by geoengineering.
Gulf War	A war used by the US to effectively cow the Saudis into submission and bolster US military domination of the Gulf region.
Project Simoom

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah	1957
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals	1963	Saudi Arabian university
Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority
Saudi Aramco

 

Citizens of Saudi Arabia on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Shaker Aamer	12 December 1968		The last UK national to be released from Guantanamo Bay, where he was held for 13 years and subjected to torture after refusing to spy for MI5.
Kamal Adham	1929	29 October 1999	Director General of Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah at the time of BCCI and "Iran-Contra"
Amr Al-Dabbagh	1966		Governor and chairman of the board of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority. Jeffrey Epstein/Black book.
Sami Alangari			Saudi businessman with deep state connections.
Makarem Batterjee			Saudi YGL businessman who worked with the Saudi government on COVID-19 as president of the Saudi German Hospitals Group
Haifa bint Faisal	1950		Wife of Bandar bin Sultan
Hani Hanjour	13 August 1972	11 September 2001	A poor pilot who supposedly piloted a 747 into the Pentagon.
Rafic Hariri	1 November 1944	14 February 2005
Adnan Khashoggi	25 July 1935	6 June 2017	Multi-billionare arms dealer.
Jamal Khashoggi	13 October 1958	2 October 2018	assassinated journalist
Osama bin Laden	10 March 1957	December 2001	A CIA operative, heavily involved in CIA covert operations such as Operation Cyclone and Gladio plan B.
Shafiq bin Laden			Half brother of Osama bin Laden
Faisal bin Turki Al Saud (born 1975)	27 March 1975
Al-Waleed bin Talal	7 March 1957		Billionaire member of the Saudi royal family.
Ahmed Zaki Yamani	30 June 1930
Omar al-Bayoumi
Saeed al-Ghamdi	21 November 1979	11 September 2001
Maan al-Jaraba			Saudi political dissident who claims he was attempted murdered in a similar way to Jamal Khashoggi.
Turki bin Faisal al-Saud	15 February 1945		Georgetown alumnus who resigned suddenly as director general of the Saudi Intelligence Agency 10 days before the 9/11 attacks.
Waleed al-Shehri	20 December 1978	11 September 2001

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bandung Conference	1955	1955	Indonesia	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World Economic Forum Switzerland	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."

 

Related Documents

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