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Support The Twitter Revolution in Saudi Arabia Against The Corrupt, Illegal Saudi Royal Family!

For a long time, I have waited for the right opportunity to write a blog about the most nefarious, corrupt government I had ever encountered in my thirty years of national security experience. 

As many of my readers know , I have dealt with Pol Pot, Sihanouk, Noriega, Aldo Moro , Berlusconi, Russian Oligarchy ---but they all pale in terms of corruption, cronyism and worst yet, repression of their own people.  I speak of the hereditary illegitimate family members of what is falsely labeled the “Saudi Royal Family”. 

In this particular blog,  I would like to express my deep appreciation to a Jill Abramson, the Executive Editor of the NY Times and the person who wrote an excellent article (from which I will draw from) by the name of Robert F. Worth.

[As side bar: It’s about time that a woman took over that stodgy newspaper and brought it into the 21^st century.] 

 

Before I begin to discuss the Twitter phenomenon that is taking place in Saudi Arabia,  let me explain to you a little about what I know personally and professionally about the so-called “Royal Family”.
First there is nothing ‘royal’ about the Saudi family.  They are composed of Bedwas’ or Bedouin tribes who were consolidated into a coalition of fighters by the British during WWI when the Brits attempted to break up the eight hundred year rule or the Ottoman Empire. 

Many of you have seen the movie “Lawrence of Arabia” by David Lean which portrays a romanticized image of the Lawrence, a homosexual  British Intelligence officer,  who made himself famous by promoting his ersatz exploits in his self-serving book, “The Seven Pillars of Wisdom” and he was abetted by the yellow journalism of the infamous American Journalist , Lowell Thomas.
  If there is a true British hero in this story it is a woman by the name of Gertrude Bell who was in fact the head of MI-6 and Lawrence was her subordinate.  But like most histories written by men for men, the heroine becomes subsumed in a foot note.

 Why is this at all important? 

  Because in order for the British rapacious elite , including the Rothshchilds  and other “self-annointed” nobility,  they  created a false political legitimacy by making a tribal leader Sheikh Abdulaziz,  head of a clan of ethnic desert nomads into a ‘king’.  The reason the British did that was to control the area they inherited called Saudi Arabia which was replete with oil.  The British did not want to make themselves look like the marauding, greedy colonialists that they were [please remember that, we American “terrorists,’ fought two wars against the British in 1776 and 1812 and then there was the Civil War] , they wanted to create a ‘Disneyland Fiction’ where the King Abdulaziz was the first legitimate ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

  Now mind you there was no kings nor princes in Islam, and true believers know that only the Holy Prophet is the true protector of the Koran.  As a matter of fact, British intelligence went so far as to displace the true descendants of Mohammed and his Holy Prophets, the Hashemites and placed them into another British neo –colonial concoction called ‘TransJordan’ and ‘Iraq’.  It was Gertrude Bell,  herself, who had amalgamated the different tribes of Kurds , Sunnis and Shi’ites into another “Disneyland Country” called ‘Iraq’.  Once again, we see the British, a people who have created more conundrums and conflicts in the 20^th century,  more than Hitler and Stalin combined, that continue into the 21st century.

[Sidebar: It was the British and Winston Churchill who created the term “Concentration Camp” in the 1890’s Boer War. That too was a misnomer. It was the British who slaughtered the Dutch Reformists called Afrikaners and raped them of their rightful claim to both gold and diamonds in South Africa. The “Concentration Camps’ the Brits created were designed to enslave, torture and eventually kill twenty-eight thousand innocent women and children who were related to the innocent Boer Fighters].

  This  pattern of vulgar corruption and the rape of a third world countries (which the US continues to follow) was really initiated by the British in Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirate [another “Disneyland Fantasy] as well as the Maktoum family of Dubai.  All these countries had one important commodity --- yes, you guessed it- OIL!!

  So why create a ‘Disneyland country ‘ with Mickey Mouse characters like King Faisal,  King Saud, The Emir of the United Arab Emirates (another Disneyland) creation by the British?
  Answer: in order to garner the ungainly commodities of a ‘primitive country’ a psychologically/politically sophisticated country like Britain [who can transform German hessian soldiers into the dysfunctional, mentally incapacitated Windsor Family -the name of the Castle, itself, not the family]  must have a centralized place and coherent group of ‘collectors and distributors’ of the oil. Then the British cleverly set up the Anglo Oil Company but realizing that once again they were losing not only the First but the Second World War,  they had to add to the name- ’Anglo-American Oil’  Company …became Aramco. 

So what you are beginning to see is that the history of corruption, rape of helpless countries and the creation of new body politics in the name of “Republic”,  “Country”  “Emirate” is nothing more than psychological warfare to add legitimacy to heinous crimes committed by a particular superpower at a given point of time.
  We, Americans, are clearly not absolved of this sin, witness the assault on the sovereignties of Mexico, Cuba, Philippines, Hawaii.  It’s simply the nature of Republics and their constitutional imperative to become empires. 

  As the philosopher Santayana once said, “those who don’t learn history are doomed to repeat history over and over again.”

Now back to the ersatz Saudi Family and the Twitter Revolution.

  The basic dynamic of the corrupt, illegitimate family stems from the tension within these spoiled,  self-indulgent, irreligious individuals,  tutored neither in the ways of the west nor true scholars of the Holy Koran. In short the “Princes” of the Kingdom are simply factotums of the Americans and British who are disposable because the fact of the matter is they are known to both British and American intelligence as ‘parasites’ , ‘lazy’ , ‘corrupt’,  disdainful of their people and their clergy.

You get the idea!!
  But here are some of the particular points of information you might want to know:

The seven sons of King Abdulaziz’s favorite  wife,  Hassa al Sudari,  known as the “Sudairi Seven” have been fighting among themselves for power and accession to the make-believe throne.  In the process of intra-family feuding,  they have paid off different terrorist groups,  Al Qaeda, Salafists, Jihadists, Osama Bin Laden , even aiding our CIA when they had no money after the Church Committee’s denuding of DCI Colby’s CIA,  in order to do what every weak regime does---create external problems in order to avoid dealing with internal problems.

 No ruling family has been more disgraceful,  denigrated and less worthy of existing than the “Kings and Princelings” of Saudi Arabia.  They have out of sheer cowardice, fear, and ignorance spent billions of dollars to keep their illegitimate elite in power.  In the meantime, legitimate muslim clergymen, legislators, students, women, and professionals have been incarcerated in the Saudi prisons for nothing more than what I have been saying or less.

But my ability to be free to blog this exposition would have been prohibited at the time I had worked with the comical foreign minister and defense minister of Saudi Arabia.  Everyone in the National security arena, knows that there are two different armies rotated between Jedda and Riyadh because the Saudi Princelings [“diaper boy leaders”] don’t trust their own blood relatives not to kill each other.

  Now,  on to the Twitter Revolution  (please read NYTimes front page article from today)  Presently- there are 2.9 million Twitter users in the Kingdom, criticizing ‘large scale corruption’, ‘womens’ suppression by the religious clergy’ etc.

  “Twitter for us is like a parliament, but not the kind of parliament that exists in this region”,  Faisal Abdullah, a 31 year old lawyers said. ”It’s a true parliament, where people from all political sides meet and speak freely.” 

Finally, the Twitter messages reveal the true depth of anger at the Royal Family that cuts across all political spectrum.

“Twitter has revealed a great frustration and a popular refusal of the current situation”,  said Salman al_Awada , a prominent cleric who has been jailed for several years for his attacks on the government in the 1990s.

  Finally, I would like to add my personal and professional advice as an experienced ‘regime changer’ and one who has worked with Saudi near and afar.

 First, let the world now support a New Arab Spring where all the members of the Royal Family are thrown out of power by the people of Saudi Arabia.
In this encouragement,   I will add a professional warning to those groups that have been and are abetting these illegitimate rulers and who are financed by the Saudi Family. 

  The following  entities and groups would be wise not to interfere in the internal affairs of an Arab Spring soon to come to Saudi Arabia: The Wahhabi Clerics, the Salafists;  different members of the ‘so-called “ ALQaeda Groups; any self-proclaimed groups financed by the Saudis in Pakistan [ISI, especially you];  Talibans [rectify the wounding of the innocent girl—you, Talibans, have children];  UAE; Emir of Brunei; Romney; Neo-cons; Dubai; Aramco; Halliburton; American/British Oil Companies; MI—6;  Mossad; Israel; Turkey;  and above all else--- our favorite screw-ups of all times---our own CIA.  Especially John O. Brennan---The Chief Counter Terrorism Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor to Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism.

Brennan’s career highlights which I happen to know personally and professionally, have included daily intelligence briefer to Pres. Bill Clinton;  CIA Station Chief in Riyadh when The Khobar Tower Housing Complex was blown up and NINETEEN AMERICAN SERVICEMEN WERE KILLED –thanks to his incompetence;  he was chief of Staff to the infamous George Tenet,  father of 9/11 Stand down and he became Deputy Executive Director of the CIA in March 2001,  just before September 11, 2001. He also was involved in the stand down of 9/11 and the myth of  Osama bin Laden.  He gave daily briefings to George W. Bush Jr and his final post at the CIA was Director of the National Counter Terrorism Center.  And Obama wanted to make him the Director of the CIA…

 So what is this indictment of Brennan in conjunction with the corrupt Saudi Family?

They are one and the same. Brennan should have been indicted for war crimes a long time ago for murders committed against US civilians just as the Saudis had sponsored groups that killed US officials and civilians.

 In short, when overthrowing the Saudis, let us not forget to overthrow our own corrupt, incompetent, CIA ‘operative’ who has as much innocent American blood on his hands as do the Saudi Princelings. 

  No Republic,  be it one made up by the British or one which fought the British like America can withstand the truth as it emerges through the flotsam and  jetsam of lies, cowardliness, corruption, deceit, self-aggrandizement and ignominy. 

  There are those in our government who will soon be revealed to have reveled in the sewers of deceit and corruption. Brennan is one of them. Hillary Clinton certainly had entered this cistern of disgrace long before anyone else…who knows what other names will rise to the top of the cesspool while we investigate the death of Ambassador Stevens and other military heroes….perhaps General James Clapper (who loves to re-tell over and over the fairy tale of Osama bin Laden) or the ignominious Tom Donilon –national security advisor.

 May the truth overwhelm the lies of this Republic and the illegitimacy of the Saudi “Disneyland”.