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State Department Shuts US Embassy In 'Ally' Saudi Arabia Amid "Heightened Security Concerns"
Having recently noted The Kingdom's new king's decrees promising to support the poor and needy with more and more handouts (and to halt the rise of inequality), it is interestingly coincidental that, as The BBC reports, the US embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh has cancelled all consular services for Sunday and Monday due to "heightened security concerns," and consular services in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran would not be available. This follows Friday's warning that Western oil workers could be the target of militant attacks.
The US embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh has cancelled all consular services for Sunday and Monday due to "heightened security concerns".
In a statement, the embassy said consular services in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran would not be available.
It urged US citizens to take extra precautions when travelling in Saudi Arabia and to keep a low profile.
On Friday, the embassy warned that Western oil workers could be the target of militant attacks.
It said it had information that "individuals associated with a terrorist organisation" could be targeting people working in the oil-rich Eastern Province.
The message did not identify the militants.
Saturday's statement did not give details of any specific threat but said: "All US citizens are encouraged to be aware of their surroundings and take extra precautions when travelling throughout the country.
"The Department of State urges US citizens to carefully consider the risks of travelling to Saudi Arabia and limit non-essential travel within the country."
The last security incident in Saudi Arabia involving US citizens happened last October when a disgruntled Saudi-American, dismissed from his job at a US defence contractor in Riyadh, shot two US co-workers, killing one and wounding the other.
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Full State Department statement:
Due to heightened security concerns at U.S. diplomatic facilities in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. Embassy and Consulates have cancelled all consular services in Riyadh, Jeddah and Dhahran for Sunday, March 15 and Monday, March 16, 2015. Telephone lines to the Consular sections will not be open during these two days. In an emergency, please use the emergency contact numbers provided below.
All U.S. citizens are encouraged to be aware of their surroundings, and take extra precautions when travelling throughout the country. The Department of State urges U.S. citizens to carefully consider the risks of traveling to Saudi Arabia and limit non-essential travel within the country.
Regardless of where you are, it is always advisable to keep your security and situational awareness levels high. Please follow these good personal security practices:
Avoid crowds or large gatherings when traveling in public;
Know where you are going and have a plan of what to do in the event you encounter demonstrations or violence;
Identify safe areas (for example police stations, hospitals, Saudi Government buildings) in your area and how to get to them quickly;
Tell co-workers or neighbors where you’re going and when you intend to return;
Minimize your profile while in public;
Always carry a cell phone and make sure you have emergency numbers pre-programmed into your phone such as the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh (011-488-3800), U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah (012-667-0080), and U.S. Consulate General in Dhahran (013-330-3200). The emergency number for the Saudi Police, Fire, and Rescue is 999. Please keep in mind that most emergency dispatchers and personnel do not speak English;
Be prepared to postpone or cancel activities for personal safety concerns;
Report concerns you may have to the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh, the U.S. Consulate General in Jeddah, or the U.S. Consulate General in Dhahran.
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In other words... Something is going in Saudi Arabia... but do not panic.
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Saigon? Or just a false flag for House Saud to use as a reason for...?
Russian Nuke.
It's the jv team wantin to play ball.
I'm gonna keep the consular numbers preprogrammed in my phone...while they're not providing consular services?
Word on the street is that the parasites are scared shitless of Saudi Arabia. They know their Zionist gig is up. They're all frantic and hysterical again, they know work camps await them.
I guess Yemen was just a rehearsal...
What was the Chinese character for interesting times ?
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Hello, and welcome to US Consular Services in Riyadh. To continue in English, press "One" now. All of our operators, who know a lot more about local security conditions than you do, were too afraid to leave their homes and come to work today. Please reschedule your life-threatening emergency for next week, or stay on the line until then. Your call is important to us.
The Saudi elites appear to have been tipped off something big was/is headed their way. A year and a half ago, before the unveiling of Operation Cyclone 2.0 (ISIS), the Ebola psy op, and the oil crash, in a mad rush the kindgom began rounding up over a million foreign workers hustling them into camps for deportation, another million were to be deported last year. Two million in population of 27M to include 8M foreign nationals.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/29/saudi-arabia-foreign-labour...
Something is going in Saudi Arabia….
Thousands Crowd Brazil's Streets….
The question is not whether there will be war (there will be lots of it) but, what kind of war. And who will fight whom?
Once the legal monopoly of armed force, long claimed by the state, is wrested out of its hands, existing distinctions between war and crime will break down……
The urban crime will develop along racial, religious, social, and political lines.
The Coming Anarchy, by Robert Kaplan
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Anarchy-Shattering-Dreams-Post/dp/037570759X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422938452&sr=1-1&keywords=the+coming+anarchy
Continuation of WWII, parasite Chosenite selfishites vs the entire world. Die cockroaches!
Saudi is a powder keg waiting to explode. The locals absolutely hate anyone of European heritage. I've been to Jeddah, and to the Eastern provinces too. There is a serious undercurrent of hatred against foreigners. My guess is, with rising tensions in the region, and shrinking government tax revenues plus high levels of private sector debt in the region (higher than you might expect, debt out there is quite underreported), there is serious backlash.
And now that the Obama administration has more or less jabbed the Saudi powers in the eye (though note, tensions were high prior to this, in fact going back to the '90s) the state may even have tossed the US out, or may indeed be orchestrating populist retaliations against citizens.
Squaring the conservative Middle Eastern cultures with the more liberal cultures in the West is a monumentous task. Invariably there are minorities in that region who would embrace a more open society, but they are repeatedly swept away by the religious leaders and hardline conservatives, who make up a good portion of the population. This was true of Iran, will be true of Iraq, Saudi, and may even be true (through exportation of said cultural values) of the more liberal regions like Dubai and Bahrain.
Westerners in the region who are reading this, if they are reading this, should be prepared for the worst. Instability will find the Middle East in a big way now that oil revenues are down. I am fucking glad I got out of that place three years back after watching folks get gunned down in the street with live ammunition during the Arab Spring. Yes the living standards are decent. Yes the weather is nice. But it's all an illusion built on oil (and gas) exports, make no mistake there will come a day when the locals sense foreign governments (UK, US and W. European govts.) influence is waning and decades of pent up, xenophobic animosity will break out.
How, exactly, has Obama "jabbed the Saudi powers in the eye"??
Frankly it seems to me that the Oval Office is seamlessly connected to The Kingdom.
The Saudis absolutely abhor the Iranians. Iran is really the only party within the region who could provide any significant obstacle to (regional) Saudi Arabian hegemony.
Obama has been cozying up with the Iranians lately and courting them. The Saudis want the Iranians wiped off the map (as do the Israelis). But, aside from that, diplomatic relations have been pretty frigid for a while now:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/16/us-iran-nuclear-idUSKCN0I50ZA2...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1868306.stm
^This one is just one article, but I seem to recall a number of Saudis with assets parked in US banks had their accounts frozen after 9/11.
Which reminds me, there were reputedly Saudi state ties to the attack in redacted US intelligence documents.
Tensions between the two states have been rising for sure. Saudi itself is in the middle of a tug-of-war between the more anti-Western elements and the US' historical allies. This is evidenced by various attacks in places like Al-Khobar, Jeddah, Riyadh. I genuinely felt unsafe for the entire 9 months which I worked out there. Sort of place where you could eat a bullet at a stop sign just because someone hated the fact you were not a Muslim, or hated perceived Western aggression against a regional neighbor.
How, exactly, has Obama "jabbed the Saudi powers in the eye"??
Word on the street is that obama diverted a plane load of afghan dancing boys to george clooney's house.
Saudis are Sunnis. Like ISIS.
Iranians are Shias. Like Hezbollah.
Right. And the Saudis are not a US puppet state at all. They hold their own as a regional power. OPEC was not a pro-USA cartel, in fact, the Americans had to dangle the Saudi's precarious food security over their heads to force them into negotiations (Saudi, unlike the US is not a major agricultural exporter).
Think of Saudi vs. other Arab Powers as something like a microcosm of US vs. the rest of the world. The Iranians are to the Saudis, what Russia is to the US. The historical power who is hated, and really can threaten the geopolitical status quo.
There are some rather coincidental similarities between certain segments of Saudi and American cultures. With fringe elements being hopelessly indoctrinated with conservative religious, or deeply nationalistic principles. A definite superiority complex (we dominate the world) and also some very poorly educated undercurrents within the society. Of course there are some major differences too (predominantly Christianity and Judaism vs. Islam) and so on.
I always found it rather odd that such similarities existed between two regions which really could be very much at odds with one another, if they didn't have to tolerate each other for various reasons such as the SAR/USD peg, trade, arms deals etc.
Also, Isaura, you and I have clashed a little in the past, but you have been making some pretty salient points lately. Gotta say, credit where credit is due. (I am not a huge fan of some of the purely academic windbags like Chomsky that you quote, but a lot of good information has been in your recent posts.)
"Nowhere are falling water tables and the shrinkage of irrigated agriculture more dramatic than in Saudi Arabia, a country as water-poor as it is oil-rich. After the Arab oil export embargo in 1973, the Saudis realised they were vulnerable to a counter-embargo on grain. To become self-sufficient in wheat, they developed a heavily subsidized irrigated agriculture based heavily on pumping water from fossil aquifers.
After being self-sufficient in wheat for over 20 years, the Saudis announced in early 2008 that, with their aquifers largely depleted, they would reduce wheat planting by one-eighth each year until 2016, when production would end. By then Saudi Arabia projects it will be importing some 15m tonnes of wheat, rice, corn and barley to feed its 30 million people. It is the first country to publicly project how aquifer depletion will shrink its grain harvest."
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/jul/06/water-supplies-shrinking-threat-to-food
They will have to use increasing energy to desalinate.
THe Saudi and American collapse is the ultimate dark comedy. And that's not just the color of crude. The two have become so paranoid...as they should - decades after screwing their own and the rest of the word and now the innevitable collapse of trust between the two. No honor amongst thieves.
Interesting link.. thanks. I was aware of the potential for rising food prices out there, and the seriousness of the fresh water problems, having lived there, though I lacked the 1970s to 2008 context. A lot of other countries in the region face similar issues, including places like Dubai, which are heavily dependent on imports.
In fact, Dubai worries me a great deal. I just do not see how much longer that city can persist without falling into sharp decline. There is simply only so long that revenues from money-laundering and tourism can actually keep the city sustained.
Going back to Saudi they have been trying to diversify away from oil, but I think they will have quite a tough time in doing so. Things like phosphate rock and other resources are in current development, I believe their oil production from the largest fields has probably already peaked.
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Whether its rich Saudis or sun baked Californians, water is going to put them back in their arid place very very soon. I wish they were the only idiots but the entire world has placed their bets on the same water, food and energy systems that were destined from the very beginning to fall right off a cliff. We're just the lucky generation to be handed the jack in the box gift. Like our broken financial systems, we need to stop regifting to the next generation, jail the criminals and build honest structures that can last.
The Arabs have been big time investors in Eastern European Countries buying up farmland. They may not have the soil in their country but it has not stopped them from buying up soil and water elsewhere, taking advantage of the low land prices in these countries.
Conservative? It's funny when Leftists use the word c-o-n-s-e-r-v-a-t-i-v-e to describe the totalitarian monsters of Islam and Communism.
"Such usage serves to show among other things the Orwellian nature of much current discourse. When words are bandied in this manner, sensible discussion of the issues is precluded. It is unlikely we shall learn anything worth knowing...from people who can describe the most notorious collectivist regime[s] in human history, steeped in atheism and mass murder, as "conservative."
Quote from "The Theme is Freedom" by M. Stanton Evans
Yup, something is definetly going on behind the scenes. UK was caught preparing a first strike on Russia for this week. Putin has the "Dead Hand" system turned on. 15k US troops being delivered to Norway where their heavy equipment has already been delivered slowly and quielty over the last few months.
http://www.eutimes.net/2015/03/russia-warns-state-of-war-exists-as-uk-nu...
Not sure how credible the information listed in that article is, but yeah, only a moron would pretend that tensions are not on the rise. The warmongers on all sides need to be held to account. Any kind of war will just serve to distract from poor governance and corruption in political ranks of these nations.
The politicians treat the public like a piggybank, and then send their voters to eat a hail of bullets when the majority turns against them. Really getting quite sick of the status quo.
Soon, expect a message saying "due to heightened security concerns," residents of [fill in name of big American city] are ordered to shelter in place. Just as when martial law was declared in Boston after Marathon day, 15 April 2013, the false flag bombing carried out by FBI agents in Craft International security outfits, complete with black backpacks. Governor Patrick got his first cousin an Obama commutation (the second Obama gave in 5 years, followed by 6 others to cover up the payoff). The two Craft security men on a rooftop by the marathon finish line got paid off another way, after they attracted the wrong attention by seeing something they shouldn't have. These ex-SEALs were murdered on the Maersk Alabama container ship in 2014, a security job they got to put them far away from the prying eyes of local law enforcement. Seychelles police ruled their deaths caused by intake of heroin and alcohol. Remember the end of "Unknown," when Liam Neeson's character is told his death will be made to look like a heroin overdose. Those ex-SEALs should never have mentioned their suspicions of what they saw that Monday in Boston almost two years ago to their superiors, including Chris Kyle.
You got some links for that?
Has to be BULLISH. Send in the troops, have to protect ( OUR FRIENDS )
There will come a day when the House of Saud will pay for its sins. On that day, our nation will have to make a choice. The consequences of that choice will remake the world.
Some think that decision was made a few years ago.
Saudis are tired f the Parasites sins.
So when does the house of Rothchild pay for it's sins? Who is the devil and who is just a server?
The Devil rewards his servants well, and destroys them utterly.
He is the loss, the rage, the blindness. He is the Dark filling the space between worlds and inside atoms. He came before the begining, before the Light was brought forth. He was first, and he shall be last. The Dark is waiting for us all, and something stirs within it.
He is the propensity for excessive verbosity in the name of which a childish notion may be made to seem worth paying attention.
Yes. That day will come about five minutes after Saudi runs out of oil and the House become just another pawn to be sacrificed after it has outlived its usefulness.
Realistically, the day of reckoning is no more than 15 years ahead, when Saudi turns net importer and the House of Saud plan to use their sovereign wealth fund to join the bankster big leagues. Unfortunately, our masters don't like competition for world dominion, least of all a pack of goatfucking upstarts. The money that isn't squandered will be stolen and Saudi will become another Arab failed state dependent on the kindness of strangers, the Nauru of the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia has sowed death, discord and destruction for decades now. Is there a more cruel, corrupt cabal anywhere on this planet? Karma. Or reap the whirlwind, if you prefer more Biblical terms.
Well somebody went in there and had to harvest their natural resources, the kingdom wasn't going to do it on their own, so they could be considered.
That's pretty good thinking to have the US Embassy and US Consulate phones manned by people that don't speak English.
They outsourced that to Bangladesh too?
It's the 999 Saudi emergency operators that don't speak english dumbass . . . .
The emergency number for the Saudi Police, Fire, and Rescue is 999. Please keep in mind that most emergency dispatchers and personnel do not speak English;
totally disregard this joke...
So that's where Putin is, he is getting ready to lead the attack..
You mean you weren't notified?
It's not a joke - he is in the command center - that's why the MSM USED as bait to find him for first strike
Putin is already leading the attack on the petro-dollar. That's more important than putting soldiers on the ground in the Middle East.
Can't wait to see where Saudi rulers stand on the growing international consensus to move away from the petro-dollar.
Israeli election on Tuesday.
I'm certain there is a connection.
I'd love to see a nuke go off in Israel!
With allies like Saudia Arabia, who needs enemies, right?
Sucks to be you parasite.
The 2 worst enemies the USA has now is Mexico City and the worst by far is Tel Aviv and the Satanic parasites that infect the place!
Not to worry, ISIS wont attack Saudi Arabia or Israel:
ISIS will attack where ever the US tells them to.
ISIS will attack wherever Israel tells America to tell them to strike.
Israel is the safest place on earth , and yet you would think with all the scary stories on the press about ISIS, blah blagh ...hmmmm
not one single attack ever lol
I suggest you go to IsraHell and STAY THERE.
Do you know how to read English , but most importantly , do you know how to use critical thinking ???
Quit teasing us....
Good news. The imperial war machine is only the tip of the spear and the only purpose it serves is to force open markets so corporate businessmen can come into victim countries and harvest all the wealth in those countries.
If businessmen won't go there because they know they will be killed, then there is no point to using the military. They might as well stay home.
As a tactic, businessmen are also a softer target than the heavily armed thugs in the military, and they can be disposed of with minimal cost.
Good news for the military too. They can return home in one piece and look for whatever jobs are available for the bottom one percent of their high school graduating class. If they can pass the aptitude test, McDonalds is hiring.
Putin missing. Reichstag fire at the Kremlim tonight as we speak. Dead hand nuke policy reactivated by Russia. Some 500 US armour vehicles enroute to Europe with eastern positioning.
Now on our side of the street some Saudi concerns.
Shrug
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/reichstagfire.htm
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-14/25-statist-propaganda-phrases-a... I posted this yesterday just because there are some deeper rumblings about Putin...and get downvoted and no honest commentary.
And today, there is major support that this is actually true. Come on Zhers, I expected more for this group. No wonder everyone eventaully gets 'rund off'...haha.
Sounds like the Religion of Peace is planning an Outreach Program.
According to Russian Intel documents the US is planning an attack in SA oil fields to boost oil price up and help the already languish US fracking industries.
Go to the police. Yeah. You'll be safe there.
I would call a camel rental agency before I would waste my time on a call to an incompetent US Embassy.
Try UberCamel. Gets you there without hitting the riots and significantly less fleas.
The Saudis have joined BRICS and together they're all planning to NUKE ISRAHELL.
LOL, so there is an attack planned, who'd a thunk it?
So in other words this latest oil selloff is just positioning by the big players for an inevitable 100% runup in price when a Saudi oil field is attacked.
The script was written at the Bildeberg and confirmed at Davos. If you're a trillionaire about the only thing you can do for fun is fuck with the world's population. Buying another $100 million condo, yacht, or Bugatti just doesn't do it for them. After you've screwed your 200th 12 year old virgin, sex with under age girls or boys loses its luster.
We are at the point that the mega rich have turned the world into a hollywood set where they can make anything happen. The Hunger Show Dome.
ISAP coming soon. The Islamic State of the Arabian Peninsula. The term Saudi will be relegated to history.
Howver, the real deal will be when jihadists grab those Pakistani nuke bases. Those suckers have long distance launch vehicles.
We got scared of some folks
Some folks shit their pants.
Awesome, a country hasnt fallen apart for weeks now.
I'm bored with the old ones already.
Wouldn't it be better to bomb Mecca then bother with a few consulates? Too bad Hillary isn't in charge today, Im sure she would secure our embassys in a proper way.
Hmmm ... smells like another CIA / US neo-con lunatics false flag operation getting under way.
Wonder if Saudi Arabia has decided on a date to start accepting all major currencies for its oil export. Announcement coming in the next few months?
Let's see how many fronts the US military or Langley mercenaries can fight in the Middle East, Europe and Africa.
40 heads cut-off every year.The type of leaders that Bush Jr. liked to hold hands with.Give.m a nice kiss Bushy you F'n weirdo.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=george+bush+holding+hands+saudi+king&espv...
Like I've been saying, one day we will be happy to pay a premium for non-middle eastern oil. When you figure in the MIC, it's way too costly.
Eleven Hijackers on 911 were from
Saudi Arabia. Let's bomb the Fuck Out of Them!!!I believe it was 15 hijackers from s Arabia
on the top the King Family financed the whole enterprise, together with some pocket money from Pakistani ISI General.
Those dumb fucks Saudi better shut the hell up. Most of the private companies jobs are done by foreigners and all the government jobs are done by Saudis... Either stop being lazy fucks in government and cry about ``foreigners taking our jobs`` or start your own businesses!! But eh, starting your own business might mean you have less time to fuck your camels so eh.
the US needs to spends its money on LNG and CNG vehicles. after 9/11 we should have simply stopped buying middle east crude and done a moon-shot program to have the US natural gas industry make every car in America a CNG vehicle in 10 years. We would have tens of thousands of engineers, jobs and new industries in the US. the saudi extremists would be killing each other instead of Iraqi Christians and the world would be a better place.
instead, we have IS. nice work Bush and Obama. I swear, US politicians now adays are the dumbest fucking people on the planet.
In the meantime if you want to support ISIS and the Saudis, don't beleive in Jesus Christ and keep buying big trucks.
If the closing of US consulates will be announced in the EU, then the world will know, that khazars have conqered the planet.