RESEARCH
AND PRESENTATION OF MOHAMMAD SAKHER who was ordered killed by the Saudi Regime
for the following findings:
1. Are the Saudi Family members belonging
to the Tribe of ANZA BEN WA’EL as they allege to be?
2. Is Islam their actual religion?
3. Are they of an ARAB ORIGIN at all?
THE SAUDI
DYNASTY: IT’S ORIGIN AND WHO IS THE REAL ANCESTOR OF THIS ‘ROYAL’ FAMILY?
Abdul Aziz
In the year
851 A.H. a group of men from AL MASALEEKH CLAN, which was a branch of ANZA
Tribe, formed a caravan for buying cereals (wheat and corn) and other food
stuff from IRAQ, and transporting it back to NAJD. The head of that group was a
man called SAHMI BIN HATHLOOL. The caravan reached BASRA, where the members of
the group went to a cereal merchant who was a Jew, Called MORDAKHAI BIN IBRAHIM
BIN MOSHE’.
During
their bargaining with that merchant, the Jew asked them : “Where are you from?”
They answered: “From ANZA TRIBE; a clan of AL MASALEEKH.” Upon hearing that
name, the Jew started to hug so affectionately each one of them saying that he,
himself, was also from the clan of AL MASALEEKH, but he had come to reside in
BASRA (IRAQ) in consequence to a family feud between his father and some
members of ANZA Tribe.
After he
recounted to them his fabricated narrative, he ordered his servants to load all
the camels of the clan’s members with wheat, dates and tamman; a remarkable
deed so generous that astonished the MASALEEKH men and aroused their pride to
find such an affectionate (cousin) in IRAQ- the source of their sustenance;
they believed each word he said , and , because he was a rich merchant of the
food commodities which they were badly in need, they liked him (even though he
was a Jew concealed under the garb of an Arab from AL MASALEEKH clan).
When the
caravan was ready to depart returning to NAJD, that Jewish Merchant asked them
to accept his company, because he intended to go with them to his original
homeland, NAJD. Upon hearing that from him, they wholeheartedly welcomed him
with a very cheerful attitude.
So that
(concealed) Jew reached NAJD with the caravan. In NAJD, he started to
promulgate a lot of propaganda for himself through his companions (his alleged
cousins), a fact, which gathered around him a considerable number of new
supporters; but, unexpectedly, he confronted a campaign of opposition to his
views led by SHEIKH SALEH SALMAN ABDULLA AL TAMIMI, who was a Muslim religious
preacher in AL-QASEEM. The radius of his preaching area included Najd, Yemen,
and Hijaz, a fact which compelled the Jew (the Ancestor of the present SAUDI FAMILY
to depart from AL QASEEM to AL IHSA, where he changed his name (MORDAKHAI) To
MARKHAN BIN IBRAHIM MUSA. Then he changed the location of his residence and
settled at a place called DIR’IYA near AL-QATEEF, where he started to spread
among the inhabitants a fabricated story about the shield of our Prophet
MOHAMMAD (p.b.u.h), that it was taken as a booty by an Arab Pagan in
consequence of OHOD Battle between the Arab pagans and the Muslems. “That
shield, he said, was sold by the Arab Pagan to a Jewish Clan called BANU
QUNAIQA’ who preserved it as a treasure!
He
gradually enhanced his position among the Bedouins through such stories which
indicated how the Jewish clans in Arabia were so influential and deserved high
esteem. He gained some personal importance among the Bedouins, and decided to
settle permanently there, at DIR’IYA town, near AL QATEEF, which he decided to
be his (Capital) on the Persian Gulf. He aspired to make it his spring board
for establishing a Jewish Kingdom in Arabia.
In order to
fulfill his ambitious scheme, he started to approach the desert Arab Bedouins
for support of his position, them gradually, he declared himself as their king!
At that
juncture, AJAMAN Tribe together with BANU KHALED Tribe became fully aware of
that Jewish cunning plan after they had verified his true identity, and decided
to put an end to him. They attacked his town and conquered it, but before
arresting him he had escaped by the skin of his teeth.
That Jewish
Ancestor of the SAUDI FAMILY, (MORDAKHAI), sought shelter in a farm called at
that time AL-MALIBEED-GHUSAIBA near AL-ARID, which is called at our present
time : AL-RIYADH.
He
requested the owner of that farm to grant him an asylum. The farmer was so
hospitable that he immediately gave him sanctuary. But that Jew (MORDAKHAI), no
longer than a month had he stayed there, when he assassinated the land lord and
all members of his family, pretending that all were killed by an invading band
of thieves. Then he pretended that he had bought that real estate from them
before that catastrophe happened to them! Accordingly, he had the right to
reside there as a land lord. He then gave a new name to that place: He named it
AL-DIRIYA – the same name as that he had lost.
That Jewish
Ancestor of the SAUDI FAMILY (MORDAKHAI), was quick to establish a “GUEST
HOUSE” called “MADAFFA” on the land he usurped from his victims, and gathered
around him a group of hypocrites who started to spread out false propaganda for
him that he was a prominent Arab Sheikh. He plotted against Sheikh SALEH SALMAN
ABDULLA AL TAMIMI, his original enemy, and caused his assassination in the
mosque of the town called (AL-ZALAFI).
After that,
he felt satisfied and safe to make (AL-DIRIYA) his permanent home. There he
practiced polygamy at a wide scale, and indeed, he begot a lot of children whom
he gave pure Arab names.
Eversince
his descendants grew up in number and power under the name of SAUDI CLAN, they
have followed his steps in practicing under ground activities and conspiracies
against the Arab Nation. They illegally seized rural sectors and farm lands,
and assassinated every person who tried to oppose their evil plans. They used
all kinds of deceit for reaching their goals: they bought the conscience of
their dissidents; they offered their women and money to influential people in
that area, particularly to those who started to write the true biography of
that Jewish Family; they bribed writers of history in order to purify their
ignominious history, and make their lineage related to the most prominent Arab
Tribes such as RABI’A, ANZA and ALMASALEEKH.
A
conspicuous hypocrite in our era whose name is MOHAMMAD AMIN AL TAMIMI-
Director/Manager of the contemporary Libraries of the SAUDI KINGDOM, made up a
genealogical tree (FAMILY TREE) for this JEWISH FAMILY (THE SAUDIS), connecting
them to our Great Prophet, MOHAMMAD (P.B.U.H) For his false work, he received a
reward of 35 (THIRTY FIVE) THOUSAND EYPTIAN POUNDS from the then SAUDI
AMBASSADOR TO CAIRO, EGYPT, in the year 1362 AH.- 1943 A.D. The name of that
Ambassador is : IBRAHIM AL-FADEL.
As
aforementioned, the Jewish Ancestor of the SAUDI FAMILY, (MORDAKHAI), practiced
polygamy by marrying a lot of Arab women and begot many children; his
polygamous practice is, at the present time, being carried out ” to the letter”
by his descendants; they cling to his marital heritage!
One of
MORDAKHAI’S sons called AL-MAQARAN, arabized from the Jewish root (MACK-REN)
begot a son called Mohammad, then another son called SAUD, which is the name of
the present day SAUDI DYNASTY.
Descendants
of SAUD (the present day SAUDI FAMILY )started a campaign of assassination of
the prominent leaders of the Arab Tribes under the pretence that those leaders
were apostates; renegading from the Islamic Religion, and deserting their
Koranic doctrines; so they deserved the SAUDI condemnation and slaughter!
In the
History Book of the SAUDI FAMILY pages (98-101), their private family historian
declares that the SAUDI DYNASTY considers all the people of NAJD blasphemous;
so their blood must be shed, their properties confiscated, and their females be
taken as concubines; no muslem is authentic in his /her belief unless he/she
belongs (affiliates) to the sect of MOHAMMAD BIN ABDUL WAHAB, (whose origins
are also Jewish from TURKEY.) His doctrines give authority to the SAUDI FAMILY
to destroy the villages with all their inhabitants-males including children,
and to sexually assault their women; stab the bellies of the pregnant, and cut
off the hands of their children, then burn them! They are further authorized by
such a BRUTAL DOCTRINE to plunder all the properties of whom they call
renegades (not following their Wahabi Sect).
Their
hideous Jewish Family has, in fact, done all that kind of atrocities in the
name of their false religious sect (the Wahabi), which has actually been
invented by a Jew so as to sow the seeds of terror in the hearts of people in
towns and villages. This Jewish Dynasty has been committing such brutal
atrocities eversince 1163 A.H. They have named the whole Arabian Peninsula
after their family name (SAUDI ARABIA) as if the whole region is their own
personal real estate, and that all other inhabitants are their mere servants or
slaves, toiling day and night for the pleasure of their masters (THE SAUDI
FAMILY).
They are
completely holding the natural wealth of the country as their own property. If
any poor person from the common people raises his/her voice complaining against
any of the despotic rules of this Jewish Dynasty, (the Dynasty) cuts off
his/her head in the public square. A princess of theirs once visited FLORIDA,
USA, with her retinue; she rented 90 (NINETY) Suite rooms in a Grand Hotel for
about One Million Dollars a night! Can anyone of their subjects comment about
that extravagant event If he/she does, his/her fate is quite known: DEATH WITH
THE EDGE OF THE SAUDI SWORD IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE!!!!!!
Witnesses
on the Jewish Ancestry of this Saudi Family: In the 1960′s the
“SAWT AL ARAB” Broadcasting Station in Cairo, Egypt, and the YEMEN Broadcasting
Station in SANA’A confirmed the Jewish Ancestry of the SAUDI Family.
King FAISAL
AL-SAUD at that time could not deny his family’s kindred with the JEWS when he
declared to the WASHINGTON POST on Sept. 17, 1969 stating: “WE, THE SAUDI
FAMILY, are cousins of the Jews: we entirely disagree with any Arab or Muslem
Authority which shows any antagonism to the Jews; but we must live together
with them in peace. Our country (ARABIA) is the Fountain head from where the
first Jew sprang, and his descendants spread out all over the world.” That was
the declaration of KING FAISAL AL-SAUD BIN ABDUL AZIZ!!!!!
HAFEZ
WAHBI, The SAUDI Legal Adviser, mentioned in his book entitled: “THE PENINSULA
OF ARABIA” that KING ABDUL AZIZ AL-SAUD, who died in 1953, had said : “Our
Message (SAUDI MESSAGE) encountered the opposition of all Arab Tribes; my
grandfather, SAUD AWAL, once imprisoned a number of the Sheikhs of MATHEER
Tribe; and when another group of the same tribe came to intercede for the
release of the prisoners, SAUD AWAL gave orders to his men to cut off the heads
of all the prisoners, then, he wanted to humiliate and derogate the interceders
by inviting them to eat from a banquet he prepared from the cooked flesh of his
victims whose cut off heads he placed on the top of the food platters!! The
interceders became so alarmed and declined to eat the flesh of their relatives;
and, because of their refusal to eat, he ordered his men to cut off their heads
too. That hideous crime was committed by that self imposed king to innocent
people whose guilt was their opposition to his most cruel and extremely
despotic rules.
HAFEZ
WAHBI, states further that King ABDUL AZIZ AL-SAUD related that bloody true
story to the Sheikhs of the MATHEER Tribe, who visited him in order to
intercede for their prominent leader at that time, FAISAL AL DARWEESH, who was
the king’s prisoner. He related that story to them in order to prevent them
from interceding for the release of their Sheikh; otherwise, they would face
the same fate; He killed the Sheikh and used his blood as an ablution liquid
for him just before he stood up for his prayer (after the false sect doctrine
of the Wahabi); The guilt of FAISAL DARWEESH at that time was that he had
criticized King ABDUL AZIZ AL-SAUD when the king signed the document which the
English Authorities prepared in 1922 as a declaration for giving PALESTINE to
the Jews; his signature was obtained in the conference held at AL AQEER in
1922.
That was
and still is the system of this Regime of the JEWISH FAMILY (SAUDI FAMILY): All
its goals are : plundering the wealth of the country, robbing, falsifying, and
committing all kinds of atrocity, iniquity, and blasphemy-all are executed in
compliance with their self invented Wahabi Sect which legalizes the chopping of
the heads of their opposing subjects.
Brief
synopsis about the leading Saudi figures
King Abdel
Aziz:
also known
as Ibn Saud. King Abdul Aziz is the father of King Fahd and 44 other sons.
Abdul Aziz united Saudi Arabia with the sword. A savage bedouin whose self
gratification, war after war, was to taste the blood of those he killed. During
the early twentieth century, he offered his services to the Ottoman empire and
was rejected by the Turks as unreliable and uncivilized. The British, during
the same period, were looking to increase their sphere of influence in Arabia,
and saw in Ibn Saud the unruly, savage warrior they were looking for to control
Arabia for them. They financed him and protected him to deliver Arabia to them.
Among the many of the ruling families during that period : The Hashemites (King
Hussein of Jordan), the Rasheeds (trading respected family from Saudi Arabia)
and the Idrisses were all unwilling to deal with the British empire after World
War I on the British terms. The British found in Abdul Aziz a willing bandit
they could rely on to conquer and preserve their interests. Since Abdul Aziz
was a Wahhabi, he encouraged Fundamentalism to create fear in the various tribes
he was trying to unite. Little did he and King Fahd after him know that
fundamentalism has grown to become more than a politically oriented idealogy
but a way of life.
King Fahd
bin Abdel Aziz:
The corrupt
members of Al-Saud Family are many. It is not easy to assemble facts on all of
them with total accuracy, however, the most corrupt of them all and master of
all masters is none other than the King himself. King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz.
Absolute power over Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the Saudi
government. He is the judge, jury, prosecutor, defense attorney, and
executioner. Having total power, he has, with other members of his family,
emptied the coffers of the government. Today, Saudi Arabia is bankrupt and has
a very grim economic future because of his policies and lack of vision.
More about
this king and his dark history of corruption and waste in future articles to
come…
Prince
Sultan bin Abdel Aziz:
Third in
command of the country but no less corrupt than King Fahd is Sultan bin Abdul
Aziz who has four titles all with the intent to retain power and to rob the
country. He is the Deputy Crown Prince, Minister of Defense, Chairman of Saudia
Airlines, and the Inspector General of the country of Saudi Arabia. Imagine
being the fox watching over the chicken hen !! Minister of Defense and
Inspector General. This is like having the head of the largest chemical company
head also the Environmental Protection Agency. What a joke. Sultan is known for
his sexual deviation including penophily. He maintains several bordellos for
his own pleasures in Saudi Arabia and abroad.
Prince
Muhammed bin Fahd:
Eldest son
of King Fahd, Mohammad bin Fahd was exposed to corruption early on. With the
blessings of his father, Mohammad has stolen government funds through large
telecommunications projects. Telephone deals, cellular deals, equipment, etc…
His wealth is valued at close to $5 billion mostly amassed during the heydays
of the late seventies and early eighties. His father assigned a government post
after he pilfered through business deals. Today, he is the governor of the
Eastern Province in Saudi Arabia where 25% of the oil world reserves lie. His
father wants him to become the Crown Prince and Bandar bin Sultan the new
Defense Minister.
Prince Faisal
bin Fahd:
If a
classroom had to write a thesis on al-Saud Family, Faisal bin Fahd would win
the award for the imbecile of the family. Stupidly stubborn and unmistakably
foolish, Faisal has spent his life in pursuit of two things : drugs and women.
He gets his drugs from Lebanon through his business associates and his women
from Europe following the same trail of contacts. This is a man who has never
done anything right, good, or useful in his life. His father, King Fahd,
appointed him as the head of all youth sports programs. One must be sick to
appoint a well known drug addict to be head of all youth programs. This is like
hiring a child molester as your Kindergarten teacher.
Prince
Abdel Aziz bin Fahd:
The
youngest son of King Fahd, Abdul Aziz is a 24 year old child who is the most
protected child on earth. Born to an astute mother, King Fahd was duped into
believing that if he took his son everywhere, he will never be assassinated
(like King Faisal). So Abdul Aziz was born with a golden spoon in his mouth.
This is a kid who is so spoiled and so protected that he has never known pain,
physical, moral or emotional. People that are close to him say that he is
unremarkable and vain. When his father had a heart attack in November of 1995,
he bequested him $10 billion of his personal fortune. The money was transferred
to Abdul Aziz accounts at Credit Suisse and Union de Banques Suisses in Geneva
and Zurich with the help of Khaled al-Ibrahim, his uncle.
Prince
Bandar bin Sultan:
The most
ignorant and dangerous of the newcomers to the scene of politics. Bandar is the
unofficial son of Sultan (See the full story below). For those who do not know
him, Bandar is a murderer (he financed and approved the planting of a bomb in
Beirut that killed 80 innocent women and children), a liar (Washington and his
fellow Ambassadors know him well), a thief (ask Mrs. Saeed Karma and Wafic
Saeed in London), and a back stabber all in one. He also happens to be the
Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States since 1984, a side job
considering that he spends his time plotting and stealing. His friends are few
and his enemies are many. His dream is to return to power in Saudi Arabia
jumping over Princes Naef and Salman. His uncle King Fahd is helping him
achieve that goal. Once King Fahd dies, Bandar will lose all his powers. Bandar
despises anyone who has more money than he does or is more respected than he
is, mainly Prince Saud bin Faisal, Minister of Foreign Affairs who is highly
respected, Prince Mohammad bin Fahd who is richer than he is, and lately Prince
Walid bin Talal, the businessman wiz who has, unlike any of the al-Saud House
members, made money rather than steal it.
Prince
Khalid bin Sultan:
If one had
to describe this big ugly huggable bear, the best description will have to be
the quote provided anonymousely by General Schwarzkopf staff during the Gulf
war : “When it comes to military knowhow, he gets a C minus.When it comes to
bravery, he gets a D. When it comes to intelligence, he gets a D minus. Other
than that, he is OK”. This is the man who provided water and food to the Desert
Storm troops through a contractual agreement with the government of Saudi
Arabia. This contract alone made him $2 billion in commissions. After the war,
he claimed that he was behind the victory of Desert Storm. Needless to say that
he has been exiled to London where he has written a self-promoting book that
exuded his intelligence and understanding of military operations. Even Prince
Sultan wishes he never had that son. Today, he spends his time trying to
impress Europeans and Americans alike through social activities. He is totally
ignored except for those who benefit directly and indirectly from the crums of
his money.
Prince Naef
bin Abdel Aziz:
Minister of
Interior and head of internal security, he is known for his cowardice. During
the Mecca uprising by Jumaiha al-Otaibi, Naef fleed the Ministry to hide
underground. It took a long time for him to recover. Naef oversees a large
budget of which 40% a year goes to pay for bribes, kickbacks, and fixed
contracts for himself and his sons. His weakness helped extremist elements in
Saudi Arabia plant a bomb in Riyadh that killed five Americans. He spends most
of his time overlooking a bloated bureaucracy that blocks his vision when it
comes to the security of the country. His incompetency is never questioned as
he is another Sudeiri. His younger brother Salman has made it clear that he
will jump Naef to the throne when the right time comes.
Prince Saud
bin Naef:
is the son
of the Interior Minister. Here we have the typical son of a Sudeiri who steels
from the government and then looses it all through rsiky businesses and pure
stupidty. In fact, he is so financially overstretched that he is unable to
maintain payments and obligations which means very little for him since he does
not admit any obligations or knowledge of debts. A typical true business deal
for Saud bin Naef is when he invested millions to build car inspection stations
all over Saudi Arabia. After he built them, he went to his father seeking a
royal decree that all 5 million plus cars in Saudi Arabia must be inspected
annually by a certified inspection station. And the company that got immediate
certification is none other than the one he put together prior to the decree.
Saud bin Naef is a small government within a government charging people
hundreds of Riyals a year to have their car inspected and then loosing it all
somewhere else. How did the government of Saudi Arabia go bankrupt ?
Prince
Salman bin Abdel Aziz:
As Governor
of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdul Aziz wears many hats.
He is the strongman of Saudi Arabia and heading fast to the throne. In the last
year, Salman has met with major Jewish organizations in the US to dispel the
rumors that he is anti-semitic and supports Israel in its push for peace. His
message was met with skeptisism according to people who have arranged the
meetings to take place. Salman is as corrupt as any of his brothers and has
amassed his fortunes by appropriating vast lands from the government and then
selling it back to the government for whatever he needed to cover the expensive
lifestyle he maintains. Salman has been instrumental in advising Fahd on
procedural issues regarding the future of the seven brothers in light of Prince
Abdullah taking over the throne upon the imminent death of King Fahd. But
lately, King Fahd has been ignoring him totally by advancing his son Mohammad
and Bandar bin Sultan to the throne.
Mohammad
bin Fahd Bin Abdel Aziz:
Fifty-year-old Prince Mohammad is the second son of King
Fahd. He is the governor of the oil-rich eastern province, the most visible of
his brothers and a secret pretender to the Saudi throne. Simultaneously, he has
been involved in more shady business pay-offs at home, moral and business
scandals abroad and political negligence than the younger princes of his
generation.
Mohammad’s
qualifications are vague; a high school degree from California. His ascendancy
over his older brother Faisal owes more to the latter’s lack of character than
to Mohammad’s talents. Faisal has been disqualified from fatherly attention for
indulging in drink and drugs and the writer Peler Theroux (Sandstorm) has
accused him to murdering his male lover. Mohammad stepped into the number one
spot by default. Pay-offs at home take place through Mohammad’s Al Bilad and
United Arab Helicopter companies, but Mohammad’s business interests were never
limited to them. In fact, as we will see, companies were created to deal with
huge individual contracts and dissolved after the illegal deal was concluded.
The biggest
scandal conducted under the cover of a company of convenience was exposed by
the Guardian and Wall Street Journal newspapers in November 1980. A Japanese company
called Petrmonde was buying 140.000 barrels of oil a day from ARAMCO at $32 a
berrel. However, close examination revealed the following: the company was
paying $34.63 a barrel and the differential amounted to $368.000 a day ($135
million a year), the company was not Japanese but London-based and
headquartered at the Al Bilad offices and the difference in price was pocketed
by Mohammad. Occurring as it did during the Iran-Iraq War, a period of tight
oil supplies, the deal infuriated the American oil companies which put pressure
on ARAMCO and brought the arrangement to an end. But Mohammad walked away
wealthier and though Petromonde disappeared.
A second
deal involving Mohammad and Saudi Telecom was an open contract but no less
horrific in its scale of corruption. In 1979 international firms were invited
to undertake the tripling of the number of Saudi telephone lines from 200.000
to 600.000. The project was so huge, some of the companies transported their
offers in pick up trucks, and the value was estimated at somewhere between 6
and 10 billion dollars. The contract was won by a consortium of Philips of
Holland, Bell of Canada and Sweden’s Erikson and the agent was the
Mohammad-owned and operated Al Bilad company. Other contenders for the
contract, ITT, Western Electric, Thompson of France and Hitachi, smelt a rat
and demanded an investigation. They claimed that their offers were lower and
better than those of the winning consortium and tried to reach Mohammad to
lodge a protest, but he was not available.
Nor were
King Khalid and crown Prince Fahd available to receive American Ambassador
William Porter who too tried to protest on behalf of his county’s
multinationals. Eventually the noise died down, estimates of the Mohammad-Al
Bilad commission run as high as 20 per cent or $1.3 billion of the $6.7 billion
winning tender. To this day, the maintenance contract for this project, because
other contractors have disqualified themselves knowing that they can’t win, is
with Mohammad and its carries a hefty commission much greater than is
acceptable in normal circumstances.
Mohammad’s
colossal home contracts didn’t stop him from misbehaving abroad. Among others,
he had established connections with British MP and one time Under Secretary of
Defence Jonathan Aitken. The British politician appears to have used Mohammed’s
Al Bilad London offices free of charge and there have been allegations, so far
unrefuted, that Mohammad and Aitken have conspired to sell arms to Singapore
which eventually found their way to Iran at a time when such sales were
prohibited.
Moreover,
in 1981, the News of The World newspaper reported an incident involving
Mohammad and a London girl for hire. His Highness appears to have roughed up
the girl and escaped to America after she threatened disclosure. This aspect of
Mohammad’s character is reported to have more to it and a recent television
programme has accused Aitken of procuring for Royals and implied that Mohammad
was involved.
Most
recently, during the Gulf War, Mohammad was accused of realizing hundreds of
millions of dollars in profit from housing and feeding American troops sent to
Saudi Arabia to protect it against Saddam Hussein. Housing these troops meant
building temporary accommodations on public land confiscated by Mohammad
specifically for that purpose. Feeding them, ordinarily a simple operation,
found some of Mohammad’s open or de facto companies charging exorbitant rates
to provide them with everyday provision. It is estimated that Mohammad’s
profits out of this were $28 per soldier, per day, If the number of soldiers
was 500.000 then it adds up per diem $14.000.000. If Mohammad’s business deals
make corrupt financial sense then his political qualifications are totally
absent. His first appointment to an official position was as assistant to the
Minister of Interior, and there is very little to report about that. Later, in
1985, he was appointed Deputy Governor of the Eastern Province and once again
it is impossible to judge a performance by its non-existence. Yet later, in
1989, he was appointed to the important post of governor of the same province.
Perhaps the
best way to judge his governance is to review his action in 1995. He spent five
months away from his post, in Arizona in the United States with his ailing
mother. During that period nothing was done, no one dared make any decisions
because everything is in Mohammad’s hands. Upon his return, he was confronted
with the problem of what to do to implement promises made to the Shias of this
province in return for making peace with the house of Saud.
The
Situations in the Eastern Province continues to deteriorate, Mohammad shows no
interest in the affairs of the state, his business activities continue unabated
despite the overall reduction in the oil income of the country and his personal
behavior is as abominable as ever. Yet, this is the star among Fahd’s sons, the
one his father is thinking of making King, supposedly the symbol of a new
generation to replace the old discredited one.
Nayef bin
Abd-al-Aziz 63 years old, Minister of the Interior. Since taking over the
Ministry of Interior in 1975, Prince Nayef has been subjected to national and
international attention owing to occurrences of repression and scandals. More
recently he has been in the limelight for his heavy-handed clampdown against
the alleged authors of the two anti-American bombings which took place in
November 1995 in Riyadh and June 1996 in al-Khubar. Unfortunately, his harsh
repressive stance has been closely linked to corruption and murky dealings,
like most of the members of the House of Saud. Yet, initially the man was not,
to use an understatement, as irresponsible as he is today. Who is Nayef bin Abd-al-Aziz?
Born in 1933, Nayef is the third son of Hussa bint Ahmad al-Sudeiri, one of the
seven Sudeiri brothers. He obtained his first degree in the Kingdom, but is not
particularly bright intellectually, nor is he considered to be well educated.
However, an honorary doctorate was conferred upon him by South Korea in 1979.
Good man
turned evil:
Nayef is
one of those strange human beings that mankind has known throughout the
centuries. He was a calm man, who always avoided making hasty decisions in matters
which committed the reputation of his ministry and himself. He used to comport
himself with good manners and deference, earning himself respect and
consideration amongst important personalities in society, amongst politicians
and even diplomats. He maintained particularly good relations with the ulama
and the religious institutions. But one day, in 1991, there was a certain Gulf
War and the man turned evil almost overnight. He is known to have spoken in a
way which does not befit an ordinary man, let alone his office as Minister of
the Interior.
The
appointment and promotion:
In 1951 he
was given his first ever appointment as Deputy Governor of Riyadh from which he
became Governor in 1953 only to cede it to Prince Fawaz a year later. From then
on he did not assume any responsibility in public service until 1971 when his
elder brother (Interior Minister Fahd) appointed him as his Deputy. Four years
later, after the assassination of King Faisal in 1975, he eventually became
Interior Minister himself. Twenty one years later, he is still head of this
ministry and his record is indeed impressive.
Sudeiris
tighten grip on power:
The
Sudeiris reached the highest positions of the State when Faisal took over as
King in 1962. Fahd was given the Interior, Sultan the Defence and Salman the
Governorate of Riyadh. The appointment of Nayef as Deputy Interior Minister in
1971 was seen as a move which reinforced the grip of the Sudeiris on the State
machinery. When he took full charge of the Ministry in 1975, Nayef, in turn,
appointed his younger brother Ahmad as his deputy with whom he has since
planned and executed the ministry’s policies.
Importance
of the Interior Ministry:
As Interior
Minister, Nayef was granted important prerogatives following the demise of King
Faisal. These were to gradually increase year by year, thereby emphasising the
importance of the Interior Ministry in the strategy of the House of Saud of
holding onto power.
The
Interior Ministry has usually been seen as the bridge to the supreme office, as
the cases of King Faisal and King Fahd demonstrate. Since its inception, the
post has respectively been held by Prince Faisal before he became King, Musa id
bin Abd-al-Rahman Al-Saud, Abd-al-Muhsin bin Abd-al-Aziz, Faisal bin Turki bin
Abd-al-Aziz, Fahd and finally Nayef. Moreover, a great many lesser princes have
been employed by the ministry throughout the Arabian provinces and emirates,
which indicate yet again the extent of the House of Saud’s grip on the country.
The Interior Ministry’s importance comes from the fact that it controls the
policing of the population through the security services; the borders and
coasts through the Borders and Coast Guards and the tribes through the so-called
Mujahidin Forces. Under Nayef, and among its prominent services are the Special
Police Forces, who have became notorious of late and the Anti-terrorist Squad.
One of the
features of Nayef’s authority, is that all civilian services within the
country’s provinces report directly to his ministry even if they are attached
to other ministries. This is another strategic method by which the House of
Saud foils possible unrest and uncovers any activity deemed suspicious. This
prerogative has enabled Nayef to infringe upon the authority of the Minister of
Justice as Nayef is able to control the proceedings of scores of courts,
especially those dealing with political activity.
Another
aspect of Nayef s prerogatives is his overall control of the media. The Supreme
Information Council, set up in 1977, paradoxically comes under his authority
instead of that of the Ministry of Information, which once more underlines the
repressive character of the regime. Even the Foreign Ministry’s Information
Department was integrated into this council which has become the initiator of
both internal and external information policy. In the wake of the 1979 revolt
inside the Sacred Mosque in Makka, Prince Nayef was given unlimited power over
the audio-visual and written press. Under the notorious March 1980 Decree no.
78, Nayef appointed a representative of his Ministry to monitor the activities
of newsmen whom he forced to practice self-censorship.
In the
field of human rights Nayef has always ignored the requests of human rights organizations
regarding the rights of political prisoners for fair trials, and has even
undertaken media campaigns against them in an attempt to belittle their
importance. In the recent trials of defendants charged in connection with the
Riyadh and al-Khobar anti-American bombings, Nayef himself oversaw the
proceedings and is reported to have personally interrogated the accused, while
circulating rumours that they were ShiÕa dissidents rather than an armed
opposition to the Saud oligarchy. As a prince belonging to the family of King
Abd-al-Aziz, Nayef is annually entitled to a remuneration of $100 million.
He also has
a quota of oil which accounts for hundreds of millions of dollars, in addition
to a quota of royal lands which he resells. He is also known to have
confiscated land for his own benefit claiming that it was for security reasons.
Meanwhile he is rumoured to be involved in the sale of drugs and alcohol for
which he receives a commission.
In the
meantime, one of his wives, Maha Sudeiri, is known to dominate him and actually
makes decisions in his place at the Interior Ministry, which has led to
persistent abuses of power. The victims are the ordinary people. Also, her
misbehaviour abroad was such that an American television stations in Florida
broadcast a film about her. Her attitude caused great embarrassment to the
House of Saud who kept urging Nayef to divorce her, but in vain.
As the
fourth key personality of the regime (after the King, the Heir Apparent and the
Defence Minister), Nayef has an eye on the highest office, but so has his elder
brother, Sultan and younger brother, Salman. This situation has created a rift
between the Sudeiris, although this has so far been kept under control. But for
how long? And would this diminish Crown Prince Abdallah’s chances of succeeding
the ailing King Fahd?
Sultan bin
Abdel Aziz SULTAN, the Defence Minister and son of King Abdul Aziz, was born in
1924. He is one the Sudeiri Seven, the full brothers of King Fahd. He is second
in line to the Saudi throne.
Ambitions
of a would-be Dictator:
Sultan rose
to fame when he was appointed Governor of Riyadh, the capital city. But he
became more powerful when he was appointed Defence Minister in 1964, a post
which he still holds. Worse than this, within the Sudeiri family’s relentless
endeavour to secure monopoly of power, Sultan gradually acquired many other
important posts in addition to the defence ministry. He is now the Deputy
chairman of the Council of Ministers, the Government’s General Inspector, Head
of the Higher Education Council, Head of the Higher Council for Islamic Affairs
and, last but not least, Head of the Higher Labour Council. These were only his
most important responsibilities.
Sultan has
nurtured his ambition to succeed King Fahd and this ambition has become even
more apparent since Fahd’s health has degenerated irremediably over the last
year. But his half-brother, heir apparent Prince Abdullah, is next to succeed
King Fahd under Saudi succession law which reserves the right to succession to
the most senior prince. The fact that the dejure successor is Crown Prince
Abdullah, is for Sultan and his six Sudeiri brothers, a great obstacle.
Low IQ
blamed for violent behaviour:
Sultan is
known for his manichean classification of people as masters and slaves. The
best example is his long-standing, irrational determination to disown his own
son Bandar, son of a slave woman, for fear that he might become a slave. He
refrained from doing so only after King Faisal’s intervention. But fate decreed
that Bandar became an educated person, and is the Kingdom’s Ambassador to
Washington, while Sultan’s other sons have inherited their father’s undesirable
traits. His class mentality expresses itself in his attitude towards the
respected men of the nation and its scholars on whom he bestows derogatory
nicknames.
Among the
members of the House of Saud, Sultan shines with ignorance. He had little
formal education and acquired his present fame only on account of his family
name. Those who know him testify that his knowledge and experience does not
exceed the fields of repression, wealth plundering and moral perversion.
Despite his oratory style he is known to make regular blunders in speeches. For
example, when addressing the inhabitants of Jizan (a part of the Kingdom) he
began by conveying to them the regards of the people of Arabia, a statement
that made him the laughing-stock of the whole country.
Such
behaviour stems from his inferiority complex which partly explains why he is
the most zealous opponent of education. But at another level, Sultan believes
that educating people paves the way for awareness and thus the questioning of
the House of Saud’s dictatorship. In the past he took a strong stand against
educational development projects. When the Islamic reformist movement
inaugurated its period of political questioning in the nineties, through the
scholars memoranda for reform, Sultan felt a malicious pleasure to tell his
ruling brothers you did this yourselves when you allowed them to get educated.
The man is
not renowned for his capability to deal with problems using hindsight,
calmness, wisdom, argument and dialogue worthy of any respectful political
leader. Lacking all of these qualities has given him an inferiority complex
which impels him to resort to force and violence in order to deal with any
political opposition.
A threat to
the Kingdom:
The 1994
clampdown against reformist scholars took place too late as far as he was
concerned. If it had been up to him, and if King Fahd had not feared social
unrest, he would have led the crackdown years earlier. In any case, reliable
sources within the regime told MIRA that Sultan was the one urging the Sudeiris
which led the last two years campaigns against the reformist opposition; he is
reported to have personally signed the arrest warrant against Sheikh Safar
al-Hawali and Salman al-Awdah. He is also said to have taken steps with the
judicial authorities to obtain a series of immediate executions against the
Muslim reformists and only backed down after being advised of the untold social
unrest that such executions would entail.
His violent
attitude and disrespect is unwisely directed even at people whose loyalty is
important to him. He is known to be deeply unpopular in the armed forces that
he heads. On the advice of foreign powers, he retires officers early and
rotates them frequently for security reasons. Meanwhile, he is known to be very
abusive to the high-ranking officers he commands and to whom he is supposed to
be a role model. In this respect he does not refrain from insulting, hitting
and spitting at officers in front of their colleagues. He reportedly humiliated
them this way even in the presence of foreign delegations just as a master
would do with his slaves.
Psychologists
would surely find Sultan very interesting. He has married many times and into
different tribes. He allegedly does not even know how many children he has.
Dangerous claims have been said about his personal life. Indeed, it has come to
the knowledge of the opposition (and unfortunately interested parties outside
the Kingdom) that Sultan may have something to hide. Furthermore, according to
reports, his psychological condition has been blamed for dubious decisions
relating to army promotions, relationships and so on. Also, MIRA has learned
that a number of foreign countries and other parties have blackmailed Sultan
and the Kingdom through the procurement of material evidence depicting his
immoral behaviour. This may explain some of the policies that the Kingdom has
adopted in order to suit the political and strategic interests of such
countries.
Obviously,
from the Islamic point of view this is scandalous as Sultan is the Defence
Minister of the country in which there exist the holy shrines of Islam. Furthermore
what is striking is not so much his absence of devotion to Islam but his
intolerance of practising Muslims. He is reported to have severely beaten one
of his new employees. The unfortunate man had ventured to call for prayer at
one of his residences (the call being a regular practice, officially enjoyed
all over the Kingdom).
As far as
corruption is concerned, the Defence Minister is one of the richest
multi-billionaires in the world. He has used the defence ministry to amass an
untold amount of wealth in the 32 year period he has been at its head. Hundreds
of thousands of dollars have been spent on the armed forces over this period.
Yet it arose that of the total amount spent only 5% was effectively used for
the purchase of military hardware and training. It will not be difficult to
imagine where the remaining 95% went. Meanwhile the Arabian armed forces
humiliated by Sultan himself, ill-equipped and lacking obvious military
training were caught unprepared in 1991 by the invading Iraqi army. That the
whole episode was a foreign conspiracy is self-evident as far as we are
concerned, it remains though that Sultan and his brothers turned the US
military assistance into a glorious episode through the manipulation of their
subservient media.
Bandar bin
Sultan:
For those who know him, Bandar has grown up unhappy and deprived of any
real fatherly love. His mother was a slave girl of Sudanese origin, which
caused his father to steer clear of him. Because of the status of his mother,
his father, Defence Minister Sultan has for a long time denied that Bandar was
his son. So intense was Sultan’s irrational behaviour that he thought that
Bandar would grow up with a slave mentality. Sultan only refrained from
disowning Bandar as a result of King Faisal’s intervention.
Bandar was
born in 1950 and, owing to his father’s rejection spent most of his childhood
with his uncles. He would only meet other members of his family on special
occasions such as at gatherings at his aunt Hissa al-Sudeiriyah. He also made
good childhood relationships with the Sudeiri children, such as his half
brothers Fahd bin Sultan (born in 1953) and Khalid bin Sultan (1949) and also
with his cousins Mohammed bin Fahd (1948), Sultan bin Fahd (1951) and Su’ud bin
Nayef (1955).
At the
insistence of, his now mature child and Bandar’s uncles, Sultan eventually
agreed to meet Bandar and patched up his relationship with him. To Sultan’s
surprise, the unwanted child showed a high level of intelligence, which he had
developed in the company of the Sudanese in whose company he grew up after
being rejected by his other brothers.
Bandar was
then sent to attend American schools along with the other Sudeiri children. In
1967, he joined the British Air Force Academy in Cornwall. After his graduation
he was sent for further training in American air bases in Texas and in
Carolina. At the end of his air force training, Bandar joined John Hopkins
University in the United States where he graduated four years later in
International Relations and Politics.
Bandar’s
relations with the United States started under the Presidency of Jimmy Carter
where he built up strong ties with Carter’s collaborators, Hamilton Jordan and
Robert Strauss. He thus, gradually eased himself into the position of
intermediary between his country and the American Administration by conveying
messages and views between the two sides.
In 1979,
during a trip to the United States of Zionism, Bandar paid a visit to President Jimmy
Carter who stressed his country’s strong relationship with Saudi Arabia and promised
assistance to Riyadh if the Iran-Iraq war threatened the Saudi Kingdom.
Following
Iran’s initial victories over Iraq and the occupation of part of the Basra area
by Iranian troops, the United States sent on 28th September 1981 a delegation
to Arabia headed by General David Jones, joint Chief of Staff, to convey to
them that the turn of the war was worrying Washington who feared the fall of
the House of Saud. The American delegation was welcomed at Dahran Airport by
Prince Fahd bin Abdallah and Prince Bandar who was then promoted to the
position of commander of a squadron of jet fighters.
The House
of Saud, which was already alarmed by Iranian victories over Iraq, enabled
Bandar to play a key role in acquiring AWACS radar planes. Requested by Bandar,
General David Jones conveyed to the Carter Administration the Saudi need for
the AWACS, but the pro-Zionist lobby in Congress opposed the sale of AWACS to
an Arab country on the grounds that it this would constitute a threat to
Israel.
But months
later, the Saudi’s felt an even greater need for the AWACS. They needed someone
who could convince Washington of such an urgent need and give assurances that
the radar planes would not be a threat to the Zionist State. The House of Saud
agreed that the man tailor-made for this mission was Bandar, who indeed
succeeded and thus, Arabia obtained the American-manned AWACS.
His success
earned him the promotion of Ambassador to Washington. Bandar soon became very
friendly with the Head of Operations at the CIA who was in charge of contacting
foreign diplomatic missions in Washington. He reportedly involved himself in
CIA activities and surprised diplomats with lavish parties parties organised by
his wife Fiha, daughter of Faisal bin Abdelaziz in defiance to the Kingdom’s
traditions and moral code.
One of the
missions entrusted to Bandar was to find a solution to the Palestinian issue
and the recognition of Israel by the Arab States. Being involved with the CIA,
Bandar also played a role in the Western Sahara in favour of Morocco in its
dispute with Spain. Similarly, he played a role in the Lebanese conflict and
was in charge of supplying the Phalangist movement with Saudi arms and armoured
vehicles through Port Said and via Malta, but his plan was frustrated when the
Maltese authorities intercepted the ship.
In the
Lebanon hostage crisis he stated to Al-Sharq al-Awsat (25/02/85) that he was
making every effort to obtain the release of the hostages. In Sudan, he
intervened on the side of the separatists of the South and provided them with
financial and medical assistance. His relationship with the CIA led him to
becoming entrusted with a mission to assassinate Sheikh Fadlallah of the
Lebanese Hisbullah but the bomb intended to kill the man missed its target.
Bandar also involved himself in many other murky affairs such as with the
Nicaraguan Contras.
Arms Deal:
Is
the Defence Minister Prince Sultan fond of arms deals because of the cash
rewards they bring ? or, has the House of Saud been pressurised into buying
American arms for other reasons? At the end of January, there was extensive
Press coverage in the United States concerning an accord which stipulated that
the Saudi rulers, had in principle, agreed to buy up to one hundred F16 jet
fighters for an estimated value of $25 billion – $30 billion. According to an
anonymous official who spoke to the press the deal will be signed during a
future, but unspecified, visit to Washington by the Saudi Defence Minister.
According
to expert sources in the arms trade, the total cost of the fighter planes is
just $2.5 billion, whilst the outstanding balance is alleged to cover spare
parts and maintenance for the jets and the training of the flight crews !
This deal
comes as a surprise for several reasons. To begin with, the Saudi army does not
need a new air defence system nor does it even need reinforcement. The Yamama
deal with Britain (in the mid-1980′s) and the earlier American-bought AWACS and F15
planes more than cover the needs of Arabia’s air defence. In addition, none of these planes have ever been used.
What is
even more surprising is that the deal comes at a time of dire economic crisis
in the Kingdom: The Government’s total debt has spiralled to more than $100
billion and if one includes unemployment (already at a staggering 25% of the
active population), rising inflation, the rapidly decreasing income level per
capita and poor social services, one cannot find any justification for new,
very costly and otherwise unwarranted military spending.
It is
equally interesting, and curious to say the least, that the deal has come at a
time when the Saudi rulers are basically at the mercy of America, with the
latter literally occupying Arabia and looting its resources against a
background of anti-American guerrilla operations. So, is the deal a mere deal,
or does Washington have a few cards up its sleeves which enables it to put a
knife to the House of Saud’s throats? Moreover, why would Riyadh enter into
such a new deal when it has already passed deals with the United States
totalling $25 billion and whose payment facility spreads to the year 2,000.
This deal
also comes at a critical time in the bitter dispute between the different
members of the House of Saud over the succession to King Fahd. However, if, as
it appears, such a deal does not worry the Americans it is possible that they
are already certain of who the eventual victor in the succession conflict will
be.
Another
reason to be vigilant remains that the leaks concerning the arms deal follow
shortly after the FBI’s Director Louis Freeh’s angry outburst about the Saudi
rulers’ secretive approach to the inquiry over the anti-American bomb attack at
al-Khobar on 25th June last year. At a meeting with Washington Post staff, he
expressed his frustration about the lack of Saudi cooperation. The Attorney
General, Janet Renois, also made a similar statement on the same day. Was this
a coincidence, or did these two officials have the green light to do so for
other reasons ? What is clear is that not only will this arms deal cause even further
financial hardship for the Arabian people, but that it may also have serious
consequences for America too.
So what are
the possible motives behind this deal. Could it possibly be that the Saudi
rulers are trying to placate the Americans after having lied to, and
embarrassed the Americans about the authors of the Khobar attack ? Or, on the
contrary, is the US Administration raising the stakes by using the FBI’s
Director’s angry remarks to strategically secure more leverage over the House
of Saud by forcing the deal through?
In our
view, the deal is not being used to boost the Kingdom’s air defence, nor is it
an attempt by Riyadh to placate the Americans in the Khobar bombing affair.
Simple though the explanation may be, it appears as if the Defence Minister
Prince Sultan believes that he will again make a huge commission on the deal as
he did on the Yamama deal with Britain which was revealed by the British press
at the time. Clearly his highness has not learnt his lesson.
As
mentioned, experts in the Arm’s trade have calculated that out of the total
amount of $25 – $30 billion spent on the deal, only $2.5 billion is for the
actual purchase of the F16 fighter jets. It is, therefore, totally
inconceivable that the remaining $22.5 – $27.5 billion is for spare parts,
training and maintenance. The reality, (which is now common knowledge) is to be
paid in commission to the Sultan himself, his son Bandar and other close
advisors and intermediaries such as arms dealers.
This deal
will further strain the Kingdom’s economy, and thereby generate not only more
hardship for the Saudi population but further anti-government and anti-American
feeling. Undoubtedly, it could lead to increased anti-American violence.
US press
comments, however, gave numerous reasons as to why the deal should not go
through. It was argued that if such enormous funds were available to the
Saudis, then they would do better to alleviate the population’s suffering by
spending the amount on much needed social services. The US Press underlined the
point that the Saudi economy could not support such expenditure, and noted that
America would, by agreeing to this deal, undermine, and thus jeopardise the
very stability of the pro-American Kingdom.
Such
comments do point to a new awareness in America concerning the dangerous policy
Washington is following towards Arabia. But this awareness does not stem from a
novel, altruistic notion following on from the Vietnamese, Lebanese and Somali
experiences, as unfortunately, it has needed two bomb attacks targeting US
military installations in Arabia to drive home to the Americans that perhaps
their country is easing itself into yet another quagmire. But still, some
decision-makers in the Clinton Administration stubbornly seek to mortgage
Arabia’s oil for generations to come; so that if any political shift occurs in
Arabia which questions the US domination of the Kingdom’s oil resources, then
the United States could invoke international law in order to justify a military
intervention. In other words, it looks as if Washington is paving the way for
the law of the jungle in Arabia, thus inaugurating what Chomsky called the new
world disorder.
Khalid bin
Sultan Bin Abdel Aziz
Lineage:
Prince
Khalid bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz. Must be known to many people. During the
second Gulf war, he came on the news repeatedly due to his involvement in the
war and because of the many gaffes he made. The Americans fought the anti-Iraqi
war, but Khalid alleged that he won it He is the son of Defence Minister Prince
Sultan bin Abdulaziz and of Laila bint Ahmad Abdallah bin Uthman, sister of the
late King Fasals wife Iffat al Thaniyan. He was born on 23rd September 1949 in
Makkah and studied at the King Saud School for princes in Riyadh. Unlike his
half brother Bandar, whose mother was a slave girl, Khalid was the subject of
much attention from his father who saw in him his successor at the head of the
Defence Ministry.
Education:
At a very
young age, he was sent to train at Sandhursts military academy in Britain from
where he graduated in 1967. He was then sent to Fort Pills in Texas for
advanced training in air defence. He is said to have completed an MA in
military Sciences at Fort Lefnort military Academy (Kansas City) in 1979.
Meanwhile, he is alleged to have joined the Maxwell Air Warfare Academy in
Alabama in 1980 and, strange though it may seem, he is officially reported to
have carried, at the same time, yet another MA in Administrative and Political
Sciences at Montgomery University, Alabama, only one year after the previous
MA. Some people do have an extraordinary IQ and time.
In any
case, back in Arabia, he was promoted very swiftly. He successively occupied
the positions of Air Squadron Chief, Training Officer/ Assistant Staff Officer
for Operations, Army Inspectorate Chief. Director of the Administration of Air
Defence Projects, Deputy Chief of the Air Force, Chief of Air Defence and, to
crown it all, Chief of the Strategic Missiles Force.
Quest of
Notoriety:
Prince
Khalid was in the shadow during his studies and while in the various offices he
occupied. His urge to become known nationally and to be heard of
internationally led him to do what the other Gulf princes normally do, that is
to give an astonishing donation to save a westerner in danger of death. Khalid
did just that when he offered a huge amount of money to an American child who
needed a heart and kidneys transplant. He announced this sensational news in
front of an American television crew during a holiday in the Bermudas.
But Khalid
came to notoriety through his dealings with the London-based arms merchant
Mohammad Wafiq al-Said. Arms deals involving Defence Minister Sultan and his
sons made Wafiq al-Said a billionaire and Khalid the same. The first deal in
which Khalid was involved alongside al-Said appears to have been the purchase
of administrative equipment for an air defence system, bought from France in
January 1984a deal which was, at that time, the biggest arms deal the French
had ever made.
The
commissions made on the it were to the tune of $750 million, with $300 million
taken by Prince Khalid alone. Khalid also shared with his father, his brother
Bandar, al-Said and others, a two billion dollar deal for the purchase of 10
Boeing transport planes and their spare parts for Saudia Airlines in 1984
(Sunday Times 5/8/84). During the scandal over the £20 billion Yamama deal with
Britain in 1984, Khalid was mentioned in the international press as being
involved in the commissions which reportedly reached half the total of the cost
of only the Tornado jets side of the Yamama deal. Witnessing before an American
civil court, a former head of the British Arms Company, Gerald James said that
each Tornado was sold to the Saudis for £40 million whereas the standard price
is only £20-22 million.
Another
nine billion dollar deal with American for the supply of F15 fighter jets was
reported in the international press as having a real value of four billion
dollars. Khalid was again quoted as having pocketed a share of the remaining five
billion dollar commission alongside his father, brothers, King Fahd and the
usual sharks around them.
The air
surveillance AWACS radar planes deal of 1980, organized by Bandar bin Sultan,
also involved a hefty commission for Khalid whose name was mentioned in this
connection in the Dooley Papers. The usual partners in the deal got their share
of commission through Global Enterprise Group, a company set up for this
particular purpose.
Khalid
Enters the Media World:
After the
1979 Sacred Mosque incident, the Iran-Iraq war and some other scandals
involving their royal highnesses, the House of Saud, and the Sudeiris in
particular, realized the importance of a media network under their control. So,
from 1984 on, they embarked on building a veritable media network which has
come to include many Arabic dailies and weeklies as well as radio and
television stationsmost of international coverage. Once the network was in
place, Prince Khalid was pushed to the fore mainly to project the Sudeiri
familys views to the world.
Khalids
first appearance in the media world was his attempt to buy the British daily
The Observer. He offered a very attractive price but, however moderate an Arab
he was in the eyes of the West, he remained after all an Arab and, in the view
of some shadowy political lobbies, the Arab must not be given the opportunity
to own media of international coverage. Hence, his offer to buy the British
daily was turned down.
Continuing
in his attempts, he bought off the Lebanese newspaper El-Hayat in 1988 and
started its daily publication from London under the editorship of a former
Lebanese Maronite, Jihad al-Khazen. Meanwhile, he bought actions in the
Bahraini daily Al-Ayyam and later founded the weekly Al-Wasat in London. About
a year ago, he set up the Arab-American Television station in the United
States.
Even though
all the Saudi-controlled media are in the hands of the Sudeiris, conflict
between them erupted over many petty issues, which led them to a lot of
bickering in public. This is how Al-Sharq al-Awsatfounded by Khalids uncle
Salman! published the photo of Prince Khalids mistress Brigitte Nelson, while
Khalids El-Hayat published King Fahds mistress Leila Alawi.
Desert
Storm Blows Khalid Away:
Khalids
career declined sharply with the second Gulf war. King Fahd entrusted him with
the catering service of the anti-Iraqi coalition of forces under the leadership
of American General Schwartzkopff. Misleadingly named by the Saudi monarch
Chief of the joint forces. He was, in fact, simply a collaborator of the
Americans against his own people because of assisting the friendly forces over
sensitive issues likely to cause anti-American unrest among the Arabian people.
His being constantly present alongside General Schartzkopff in the Operations
Room got him some media coverage both nationally and internationally. So, he
soon became too big for his boots. Apart from diverting an important part of
the catering budget, which aggravated Washington, he dared criticize General
Schwartzkopff, who had returned to America. Later Khaled wrote in his book
Desert Warrior that the success of the Gulf war was due to his own planning.
Even more
compromizing was his statement shortly after the war over the necessity of
rearming the Arabian army (under the command of his father Sultan) and the
National Guard (under the command of Crown Prince Abdallah, Sultans rival), and
the need to make compulsory conscription, all of which are sensitive issue
within the House of Sauds carefully maintained balance of forces. Other revelations
made in his book, and which had been concealed by the Americans, regarding the
role of the joint Arab troops during the Gulf war caused some friction between
Washington and Riyadh which was the last straw and caused his downfall.
Ironically King Fahad sacked him in humiliating circumstances for the same
reason. Khaled went too far in his own imagination of being the Commander of
the Forces. King Fahad was extremely furious when Khaled took several decisions
without consulting him.
Khalid has
ever since been ignored by the regime and the Saudi media. He has gradually
slumped into oblivion. Neither his father, nor his estimated wealth of $10
billion have been of any assistance to remember him to the world. Perhaps
another $50 billion donation to help control AIDS in America might do the trick
Prince
Faisal bin Fahd Bin Abdel Aziz:
Prince Faisal, son of King Fahd bin Abdulaziz,
was born in 1945. He did most of his studies in the Kingdom and obtained a BA
in Political Sciences from abroad.
His first
job was in 1971 as Head of the Youth Department with ministerial rank. The
Labour Ministry was also attached to his Department. Since then, he has had
many positions, all within the youth and sport areas. He was successively
President of the Arab Football Union, Arabian Football Union, Arabian Olympic
Committee, Arab Sports Union and Head of the National Committee on Drugs
Control. At the international and regional level, Faisal bin Fahd was nominated
Honorary President of the International Swimming Federation. In 1974 he became
Chairman of the Arab Ministers’ Council on Youth and of member of the Supreme
Council of Youth which was set up that very year. Finally, he acquired the
position of President of the Basket Ball Federation. During his term in these
positions, he naturally attended a great many sports events including the
conferences of the International Football Federation in Munich between 1972 and
1974.
Faisal has
been kept in the same position since he was appointed to it in 1971 at the time
of King Faisal, when his own father was Interior Minister. In the meantime, his
brothers and cousins in the Sudeiri family had been raised to higher offices.
In fact, were it not for the present system of succession to the throne, which
was established by his grand father King Abdulaziz, Faisal would have had the
chance to become king himself, especially as he is well educated. So, why is it
that he has been kept in the same position when he is not less eager than his
relatives to wield power? Faisal bin Fahd was connected with the Youth
Department at an early age, when the situation of sport in the kingdom was
dismal with almost inexistent sport facilities. His appointment at the head of
this Department coincided with the oil boom.
The plan
was to make sport popular among the youth. But the ultimate objective of the
Sudeiris was a long term strategic one. The point was to keep young people busy
in order to protect the grip on power by the House of Saud. Many countries,
like the former Soviet bloc, used sport as a means to keep their youth away
from any political or intellectual activity. Various studies exist which show
that the use of sport for such ends put state budgets for games second only to
military expenditure in such countries.
As a
by-product of this objective, another not less devious goal was sought: the
creation of a feeling of national, ‘Saudi’ belonging which would supersede and
even marginalize the Arabian youth’s sense of belonging to the wider Arab and
Islamic Ummah. For this purpose Saudi Arabia had to fix the ways and means to
train a sport-oriented youth which would enable the Kingdom to have access to
International events and Olympic games to eventually instil this sense in an
ever greater number of youths.
The House
of Saud gave Faisal all the prerogatives to attain this goal. With an annual
budget of $20 billion for the Youth Department, Faisal embarked on a programme
of impressive sport facilities and training and visits to various world-famous
clubs were regularly undertaken and Western coaches recruited at great costs.
With the assistance of his brother Sultan bin Fahd, Faisal undertook the
construction of sport villages, centres and stadia, clubs and fully staffed
training facilities of all kinds at a cost considered enough to be meet the
nations needs until the year 2000. One particular sports complex occupies an
area of 80,000 m2 and cost xxxxxxx1,280 Saudi Riyals.
It
accommodates swimming pools, Olympic-standard activity areas, restaurants for
1,000 people and a purpose-made building for the House of Saud and their
guests. Faisal had similar complexes built in the other major cities like
Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. Alongside these facilities, separate Olympic-grade
swimming pools, youth hostels as well as unions and clubs for all sorts of
games were set up. At the same time, Faisal undertook to have the Saudi
national team and clubs join international federations. It was in this context
that, in 1976, he hired the British football coach Jimmy Hill. Hill was given a
special budget with prerogatives to train young people of all ages, everywhere
in the kingdom. In a move to boost the country’s chance of winning matches and
get promoted to higher divisions, Faisal hired several western players at
prohibitive costs.
Therefore,
the cost of hanging on to power is double: on the one hand, billions of pounds
have been spent out of the country’s wealth; on the other hand, through sport
the youth is being alienated from its Islamic values and traditions, and is
being made redundant intellectually. Not that sport as such is the “opium of
the people,” but the very policy which underlies it is intentionally devious
and harmful. Whereas the Sudeiri brothers— morally and financially corrupt—are
banking on time to instil in the youth the a sense of narrow nationalism and
regionalism, the late Al-Saud kings can be credited with keeping away from
these concepts for religious reasons and because of the kingdom’s religious
weight in the Muslim world. Apart from heading the Sudeiri family’s policy of alienating
Saudi youth, Prince Faisal is no exception in the world of financial
corruption. His commissions are reported to be 30% of the budget of his Youth
Department. This classic way of obtaining commissions is no different from that
of his father, uncles, brothers and cousins: a percentage is taken on each
project, service and equipment supplies. Another percentage is taken annually
on the earnings of each of the facilities. Yet a further source of illegal
income comes from the budget devoted to sports events both at home and abroad.
Faisal’s
embezzlement was not limited to the sports world and his Department. According
to two authors, Nacer Said (History of the House of Saud, Arabic p. 773) and
AbderRahman Al-Shamrani (The Scandal Kingdom, Arabic, vol. 2, p. 287), Faisal
obtained a commission of $40 million from the European company Philips which
was entrusted with the modernization of the country’s telephone system in the
seventies. Meanwhile Faisal was involved in the confiscation of poor people’s
lands. He is known to have taken 4 million m2 of land along the Jeddah sea
shore, while he confiscated the Dammam Project no. 92 which included 92,000
allotments distributed to impoverished people. Property licences were suddenly
withdrawn from the beneficiaries overnight without any valid explanation and
the lands were given to Prince Faisal. The latter’s embezzlement from real
estates is reported to be much higher than the commissions he acquired through
his office at the head of the Youth Department.
King Fahd
who used to prepare his sons for high offices became desperate about Faisal’s
disastrous behaviour. This explains why the King, his father, has decided not
to promote him. Indeed Faisal is known to be both a homosexual and a chronic
drug addict. For all this, King Fahd reportedly continued to test him. In the
hope of getting him to improve, he gave him several sensitive missions to
Gorbatchev’s Soviet Union and to communist China under cover of sporting
events. But this was to no avail as Faisal continued his drug addition and went
even as far as having a drug wing under his control, which led to complaints
from various foreign diplomatic and intelligence services to the Saudi
authorities, according to a journalist close to the royal family. As a remedy,
Faisal was sent to the West for drug addiction treatment. It was at that time
that he was appointed president of the Drug Control Committee, a move meant to
encourage him to give up taking drugs but, again, to no avail.
In view of
his son’s hopelessness, King Fahd decided to groom his other two sons, Muhammed
and Abdulaziz bin Fahd, for high positions. Muhammed was then dropped and the
King concentrated his attention on Abdulaziz. The latter received $300 million
from the state’s budget while his father transferred to him another all his
fortune both in real estates and in money—a total estimated to be to the tune
of $40 billion. Needless to say that all this aggravated Faisal who saw his
chances of promotion gone, perhaps for ever.
Yet, Faisal
is not poor: the wealth he stole or was given from the people’s stolen wealth
is estimated to be between seven and ten billion dollars. He is still
relatively young, so he still may have a lot of time to plunder and become
richer.
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