(NOTE: Some news-media have made clear to
me flat-out that they won’t publish anything that criticizes the Saudi
royal family, especially not as being what they really are, but I have
included those media on my distribution-list anyway, as I always do. I
send everything I do to all of them, regardless of whether or not they
will consider publishing my reports.)
An official announcement from the world’s
leading, and most fundamentalistic, Sunni Islamic nation, Saudi Arabia,
on Tuesday December 15th, has introduced a Sunni-Islamic counterpart to
NATO, and it includes one NATO member, Turkey, which is already at war
against NATO’s enemy Russia, and against Russia’s ally the
non-sectarian, secular Shiite, Bashar al-Assad, who runs Syria. The
Sauds’ “Joint Statement on Formation of Islamic Military Alliance”
has been signed by 34 Sunni-led nations, with “more than ten other
Islamic countries” that “have expressed their support for this …
alliance and will take the necessary measures” to join, “including
Indonesia” (the highest-population Islamic-majority nation). All of
those “Islamic countries” are specifically Sunni-led, not Shiite-led.
The two top importers of U.S. weapons are #1 Saudi Arabia, and #2 Turkey.
Both are Sunni, and no Shiite nation is even on the list. The new,
34-nation-plus military alliance could cause U.S. military producers to
soar. And the figures shown there for Saudi Arabia grossly understate
the reality. For example, on 13 September 2010, Britain’s Telegraph bannered “US secures record $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia,”
and other lesser arms bonanzas to the U.S. from the Sauds came in the
years after, so that a figure of only “$1,199,000,000” for the year 2014
(given in the first of those two links) is no fair indication of the
reality, which is that the Saud family dwarfs any other buyer of U.S.
armaments. And, U.S. ‘news’ media refuse
to allow their reporters to cover the ugly reality of how those weapons
are being used — and they fire any who publicly object.
Saudi Arabia is owned by King Salman al-Saud, the world’s wealthiest person, who might now be on his way to becoming the Sunni faith’s globe-spanning “Caliph,” or Islamic Emperor — an
aspiration of his family ever since his ancestor Muhammad Ibn Saud in
1744 swore an anti-Shiite oath, along with the fundamentalistic
anti-Shiite cleric Muhammad Ibn Wahhab, who agreed that his
followers would endorse Saud’s descendants to rule Arabia if the Saud
clan would impose Wahhab’s extremist interpretation of the Quran. In
fact, an official of the U.S.-backed Syrian ‘moderates’ called recently for exterminating Shiites, and the Saud family supports those ‘moderates.’ Furthermore, a recent poll showed that 92% of the Saudi public support ISIS, which is only natural since ISIS is only enforcing the laws that the Saud family have already long been imposing upon their own public.
However, ISIS claims that the Saud family are impostors,
who must be replaced by the leaders of ISIS, who won’t ‘cooperate’ with
‘the infidels.’ And, so, the Sauds now are arming not only against
Shiite-led nations, and against those nations’ major ally Russia, but
also against groups that, even inside the Sauds’ own country, are more
popular than the Sauds themselves are (which probably isn’t very
popular, since the Sauds refuse to allow so important a matter to be
polled — any honest poll of it would expose to Western publics the total
fraudulence of the aristocracies’ rationalizations for their wars to
replace the Syrian government and for the rest of the West’s geopolitics).
The alleged purpose of this newly formed
military alliance is “to fight terrorism” (something that all nations
claim to be doing), an ambiguous phrase (something that aristocrats
specialize in). It might include even the Oklahoma City bombing by
Timothy McVeigh and the anti-Israeli attacks by the Shiite Hezbollah
group in Lebanon, but this “terrorism” might (far more feasibly) instead
refer only to the “terrorism” practiced by Sunni groups, such as ISIS
and Al Qaeda — the groups that, like Saudi Arabia itself, are famous
specifically for beheading people
they don’t approve. (Shiite nations, even the most fundamentalistic
one, Iran, prefer other methods of execution, if they use any at all —
typically, such as in Iran, hanging.)
Saudi Arabia was founded in 1744 by an
oath between Saud and Wahhab to exterminate Shiites and then take over
the world. The Saudi royal family were the main funders of Al Qaeda:
that group’s bookkeeper and bagman who personally collected in cash each
one of the many million-dollar-plus donations to Al Qaeda, said that, “Without the money of the — of the Saudi you will have nothing.” He listed almost all of the top Sauds as people from whom he had been collecting. There also is evidence
suggesting that the Saud family’s Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud (who
was on that list), a longtime buddy of both President Bushes, might
have communicated to George W. Bush in private, well prior to 11
September 2001, that Al Qaeda was planning and soon would perpetrate a
massive attack in the United States, and that Bush shouldn’t let the CIA
chief or his anti-terrorism specialists into his presence to provide
him the details privately and, because “We don’t want the clock to start
ticking.” The now-standard cover-story, that the U.S. couldn’t have
been protected from that attack, was already planned, even as the attack
itself was being organized. Furthermore, it’s widely suspected that the missing 28 pages
from the Senate’s investigation into the pre-9/11 intelligence,
addresses this “highly sensitive” (meaning: the public isn’t supposed to
know it) matter. All that’s been publicly released is that, “It’s about
the Bush Administration and its relationship with the Saudis.” The
Obama Administration is hiding those 28 pages from the public.
The Sauds privately agreed to an alliance
in 1945 with the United States to continue sharing with U.S. oil
companies, if the U.S. would protect them from the Saudi public. Thus, the Sauds receive favorable press coverage in the U.S. press,
which are owned by members of the same U.S.-and-allied aristocracy that
control the U.S. Government (via the press, lobbyists, etc., all of
which they hire if not own). Consequently, too, the Sauds’ foreign invasions to impose Sunni rulers even in majority-Shiite lands are hidden by the U.S. press.
This is a bipartisan hiding: not only mainstream ‘news’ media such as
CNN and The New York Times and Salon are part of it, but the clearly partisan (i.e., Republican) conservative ’news’ media, such as those of Rupert Murdoch (Fox, WSJ, N.Y. Post,
etc.) also are. (In fact, when the Saudi Prince who was the
second-largest stockholder in Murdoch’s News Corp. sold most of his
holding of that stock in 2014, Forbes noted that he “also has a substantial shareholding in Time Warner,” which includes CNN.)
The Sauds’ imperial announcement, which provided no details on what is to be meant by the phrase “to fight terrorism,” stated:
The countries participating in the
alliance along with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are: Jordan, United Arab
Emirates, Pakistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Turkey, Chad, Togo,
Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea,
Palestine, Comoros, Qatar, Cote d’Ivoire, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya,
Maldives, Mali, Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria,
.Yemen
(The dot before “Yemen” is a
typographical error in the Saudi announcement, one that the Saudi Press
Agency commonly makes — it means nothing at all, except that the Saud
family place low priority on editing “typos” out of English translations
of their official pronouncements.)
Turkey is the only NATO member in this
group. Turkey (after shooting down a Russian plane over Syria) is at war
against Russia, because Turkey is trying to defeat the military
campaign by Russia to destroy the many fundamentalist Sunni groups,
jihadist groups including Al Qaeda and ISIS, that are trying to take
over Syria. Turkey’s virtual dictator, the fundamentalist Sunni Recep
Tayyip Erdoğan, wants to sell Syria’s oil on global markets — he’s
already doing it illegally, and wants to be doing it legally, such as by
installing (with U.S. and Saudi help) a fellow-fundamentalist Sunni as
Syria’s leader.
Tha Saudi announcement says nothing about
what relationship (other than already including one NATO member) the
new, Saudi-led, military alliance will have with NATO, which is
America’s alliance against Russia. (It used to be America’s
anti-communist alliance; but, once communism ended, the U.S. aristocracy
kept NATO going, in order to take over Russia itself, such as by
surrounding it with NATO nations and ultimately forcing out and
replacing the current independent Russian government.)
Outside NATO, the United States has additional major military bases in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and longstanding alliances also with Pakistan and Egypt, as well as extensive military cooperation with Jordan, UAE, and Kuwait.
The U.S. has been trying to conquer
Russia ever since the negotiations in 1990 for the end (which occurred
in 1991) of the Soviet Union and of its Warsaw Pact (the Soviets’
counterpart to NATO). And, like the Saudis, the U.S. is also hostile
toward the world’s leading, and coincidentally its most
fundamentalistically led, Shiite nation: Iran. Moreover, both of these
military alliances are also very much against Russia. So: NATO and the
newly formed, Saudi-led, Sunni military alliance might ultimately join
into one.
A conference had
been expected to meet on December 15th in Riyadh to select which
jihadist groups would receive the backing of the Sauds to take over
Syria; however, that was cancelled when the Sauds announced
that only a single jihadist group that’s actually fighting in Syria
would be allowed to attend. Most of the jihadist groups still want to
overthrow the Sauds for working with ‘infidels.’ Consequently that
meeting is not being held, after all.
No Shiite nation was mentioned in the
Saudi announcement of the new military alliance, and the possibility
therefore exists that the reason why the Saud family created this
alliance was as part of that family’s intense hostility, ever since at
least 1744, against Shiites.
The response of the U.S. regime to the Sauds’ war against Shiia has been twofold: to condemn it verbally,
while participating in (and even leading it) in the real world, the
anti-Shiia operations against Syria and Iran (both of them because
they’re allied with Russia).
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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