Saudi Royal Threatens US with Jihad
The Saudis believe they no longer owe the USG any favors.
It always struck me as an absurd joke when USG officialdom declared Saudi Arabia as a friend and ally. Obviously, this “friendship” is all about oil. Well, thanks to Biden, his cognition slip-sliding away, the Saudis are upset with the USG. Biden’s handlers tried to get the Saudis to postpone announced cuts in oil production until after the election.
It is, after all, Saudi oil, so they have all the right in the world to tell Biden to screw off.
For me, the issue is this: why in the hell did the US ever get involved with these Wahhabi fanatics in the first place? Didn’t they realize the Saudi monarchy considers America a nation of infidels worthy of beheading? Yes, history shows they did know this, but it was not a consideration. Oil was of paramount importance.
Biden’s demand, stridently rejected, elicited a response from a cousin of “prince” Mohammed bin Salman, a ruthless psychopath who has critics carved up in foreign embassies.
Biden has depleted the US strategic oil reserve to keep gas prices artificially low prior to the election so the democrats might remain in control of Congress (sorry, that ain’t gonna happen). It’s typical democrat shenanigans that ultimately make any crisis five times worse.
It’s not gonna happen, but it should—remove the redaction of the final chapter of the report on Saudi involvement in the 9/11 attacks. An FBI report added:
The report details many connections the FBI saw between a Saudi national named Omar al-Bayoumi, and at least two of the 9/11 hijackers, including providing “travel assistance, lodging and financing” to the hijackers, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.
The report further revealed Bayoumi was well regarded by Saudi Consulate officials in the U.S. and held a “very high status.” Bayoumi was in contact with Fahad al-Thumairy, an imam and consular official at the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles. Bayoumi would frequent the Los Angeles consulate throughout his numerous interactions with Hazmi and Mihdhar.
Regardless of the fact that it was virtually impossible for untrained and untrainable Saudi airliner hijackers to have steered modern, highly complex planes into the WTC, we are told that was indeed the case.
Despite this, the Saudi role in the attacks needs to be unredacted and made public. It’s hardly a secret that Saudi Wahhabism is at the very root of Islamic terrorism.
The British are responsible for elevating a tribe of vicious bedouin extremists into a sprawling desert state that, through its control of a massive amount of petroleum, exacts undue influence around the world. The psychotic tribe would still be roaming the desert if not for the British Empire and the USG.
Following World War I and the defeat of the Ottoman Empire that had ruled the Middle East for centuries, Britain and France went about carving up the region for their own purposes. Instead of the mild-mannered Sunni orthodoxy of Hussein bin Ali, the ruler of the holy city of Mecca, Mark Curtis writes for Pakistan Defence, the British were confronted with
the future founder of Saudi Arabia [who] sat at the head of an ultra-conservative Sunni revivalist movement, now known as Wahhabism, which professed a strict adherence to the tenets of Islam, and which had developed in the eighteenth century based on the teaching of the theologian, Mohammed ibn Abdul Wahhab, born in 1703. Ibn Saud’s military forces were the Ikhwani, or Brotherhood, a militia of Bedouin tribesmen instructed by religious teachers who were committed to the purification of Islam and the advancement of government based on strict Islamic law.
Colonial secretary Winston Churchill, realizing Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud and the Wahhabists were too religiously fanatical to be defeated by the preferred client, accepted Ibn Saud’s control of Arabia.
At the same time, Churchill described Ibn Saud’s Wahhabis as akin to the present-day Taliban, telling the House of Commons in July 1921 that they were ‘austere, intolerant, well-armed and bloodthirsty’ and that ‘they hold it as an article of duty, as well as of faith, to kill all who do not share their opinions and to make slaves of their wives and children. Women have been put to death in Wahhabi villages for simply appearing in the streets. It is a penal offence to wear a silk garment. Men have been killed for smoking a cigarette.’ However, Churchill also later wrote that ‘my admiration for him [Ibn Saud] was deep, because of his unfailing loyalty to us’, and the British government set about consolidating its grip on this loyalty.
The creation, under British supervision, of the “new state of Saudi Arabia,”
its regional authority underpinned by a religious fundamentalism, gave Britain a foothold in the heart of the Islamic world, in Mecca and Medina. More broadly, Britain had succeeded in achieving its goal of a divided Middle East and a ‘ring of client states’ out of the ashes of the Ottoman empire. The Gulf states ringing Saudi Arabia, in Aden, Bahrain and Oman, were all feudal regimes underpinned by British military protection.
The USG recognized Saudia Arabia in 1931 under the condition it provide Standard Oil of California with the ability to search for oil in the eastern province of the kingdom. The California Arabian Standard Oil Company, as it became known, and later Saudi Aramco did find oil—and a lot of it. After WWII, Saudia Arabia became an important asset in the so-called Cold War.
Fast-forward to 2022. The Saudis realize the world is moving away from the dominant, oppressive, and crumbling USG post-Bretton Woods neoliberal system. Now they align with new trade and economic systems, led by China and Russia, emerging to replace it.
In short, the Saudis believe they no longer owe the USG any favors.
The aggressive behavior of the cousin of a royal Mafia don, threatening a jihad in response to Biden, reveals the true nature of the Saudis. Like the Taliban, whom they inspired, the Saudi royalty has no tolerance for nations and peoples who do not follow their austere version of Islam. The relationship with the USG was one of convenience. Now that is over.
Source: Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics
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