SAUDI KING SALMAN RELIEVES CROWN PRINCE MUQRIN FROM HIS DUTIES AS CROWN PRINCE AND FIRST DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER — STATE TV It will be interesting if the young and ambitious defense minister, Mohammad bin Salman, is being fast tracked. The thirty-five year old organized the Sunni coalition [...]
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Does GOP Support a Saudi Led Crusade: Who is Mohammed bin Salman ?
While the Republicans are hysterically denigrating* the Lausanne agreement with Iran, the GOP seems all to happy about the war like actions of Saudi Arabia. The GOP perhaps does not remember the 1950s when Standard Oil (or was if Gulf?) ran commercials on TV showing how American oil companies were [...]
March 25th, 2015 - 6:12 pm § in Saudi Arabia
BREAKING NEWS: The Kingdom Goes to War
Arab forces led by Saudi Arabia have gone to war against Iran’s proxies in Yemen. The air forces bombed the Houthi fighters who have taken control of Yemen’s capital and advanced on the southern city of Aden where the country’s president has taken refuge’ Saudi Ambass[...]
February 28th, 2015 - 10:16 am § in Politics, Saudi Arabia
92% of Saudis believe that ‘Islamic State conforms to the values of Islam and Islamic law’ – Poll
Buck Wheat says: August 26, 2014 at 10:31 pm Anyone ever wonder why the second most modern air force in the entire middle east has not flew a single mission against ISIS, the Saudi’s are scared to death their pilots will turn around and bomb them. Only the US Navy is flying strike missions against[...]
January 27th, 2015 - 8:46 pm § in Misc., Saudi Arabia
Saudis Make Michelle Disappear
Saudi TV of the Obamas at the funeral of King Abdullah. Apparently the Saudi public was not ready for the image of a woman with hair uncovered?[...]
README: News from Saudi Arabia … no mention of Gaza
New members of the Saudi Border Guards parade in Jeddah during their graduation ceremony in this May 28, 2014, file photo. (SPA) Southern border is secure, Border Guards say King’s Ramadan gift: 1,017 prisoners freed Haram security ‘a red line no one can cross’ First group of deb[...]
July 7th, 2014 - 5:34 pm § in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia: Royal Largesse
SR1.39bn aid to brighten up festivals for the needy Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered the payment of SR1.39 billion in emergency assistance to poor families in the Kingdom. “Families subscribed to the social insurance scheme…[...]
BREAKING NEWS: The Balkanization of Lebanon
Once the Promised Land for Pluralistic Democracy, Lebanon Has Turned Into a Playground for Foreign Powers The Lebanese Parliament failed on Monday in its sixth attempt to elect a new president since President Michel Suleiman’s term ended two weeks ago. The deadlock reflects the spillover fro[...]
Sunday Revealtions: ISLAM from Oxford Pt. 5.
Islam Needs to Prove That it is a Religion of Peace[...]
Saudi Arabia: government deals with witches and jinns.
KSA facing increased cases of witchcraft “Preachers who earn their living by exorcizing spirits should charge affordable fees.” The Saudi government news agency reports that witchcraft is rampant in the Western Province. Makkah and Madinah have recorded the highest number of cases, sourc[...]