Read The Powerful Saudi Terrorism Article Censored By Al-Jazeera
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
On December 3rd, a month before Saudi Arabia carried out it largest mass execution since 1980 — subsequently setting the region on fire — Arjun Sethi wrote an article for Al-Jazeera titled: Saudi Arabia Uses Terrorism As An Excuse for Human Rights Abuses. According to Cora Currier at the Intercept:
Al Jazeera’s headquarters in Qatar appear to have blocked the article outside of the United States because it is critical of an ally of Qatar.
Naturally, this makes you want to drop everything and read it. So here are some excerpts courtesy of the Intercept:
Reports emerged last week that Saudi Arabia intends to imminently execute more than 50 people on a single day for alleged terrorist crimes.
All the convictions were obtained through unfair trials marred by human and civil rights violations, including in some cases torture, forced confessions and lack of access to counsel. Each defendant was tried before the Specialized Criminal Court, a counterterrorism tribunal controlled by the Ministry of Interior that has few procedural safeguards and is often used to persecute political dissidents. Lawyers are generally prohibited from counseling their clients during interrogation and have limited participatory rights at trial. Prosecutors aren’t even required to disclose the charges and relevant evidence to defendants.
The problems aren’t just procedural. Saudi law criminalizes dissent and the expression of fundamental civil rights. Under an anti-terrorism law passed in 2014, for example, individuals may be executed for vague acts such as participating in or inciting protests, “contact or correspondence with any groups … or individuals hostile to the kingdom” or “calling for atheist thought.”
One of the defendants, Ali al-Nimr, was convicted of crimes such as “breaking allegiance with the ruler” and “going out to a number of marches, demonstrations and gathering against the state and repeating some chants against the state.” For these offenses, he has been sentenced to beheading and crucifixion, with his beheaded body to be put on public display as a warning to others.
Because of these procedural and legal abominations, the planned executions for these Shia activists must not proceed. They should be retried in public proceedings and afforded due process protections consistent with international law, which includes a ban on the death penalty for anyone under the age of 18.
This deafening silence is not lost on Saudi Arabia and has emboldened its impunity. In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the kingdom’s brutal campaign against its Shia minority and political opposition has deepened. Shias have limited access to government employment and public education, few rights under the criminal justice system and diminished religious rights. Those who protest this discrimination face arbitrary trial and the prospect of execution for terrorism. Consider that Saudi Arabia has not carried out a mass execution for terrorism-related offenses since 1980, a year after an armed group occupied the Grand Mosque of Mecca.
Despite its appalling human rights record, Saudi Arabia was awarded a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council last year and this summer was selected to oversee an influential committee within the council that appoints officials to report on country-specific and thematic human rights challenges. Unsurprisingly, Saudi Arabia has used its newfound power to thwart an international inquiry into allegations that it committed war crimes in Yemen.
So that’s a great example of how Saudi Arabia blocks the truth within the region. Now let’s look at how it mobilizes its U.S. mercenaries to spew propaganda across mainstream media. From the Intercept:
Saudi Arabia’s well-funded public relations apparatus moved quickly after Saturday’s explosive execution of Shiite political dissident Nimr Al-Nimr to shape how the news is covered in the United States.
The Saudi side of the story is getting a particularly effective boost in the American media through pundits who are quoted justifying the execution, in many cases without a mention of their funding or close affiliation with the Saudi Arabian government.
A Politico article about the rising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran by Nahal Toosi, for instance, quoted only three sources: the State Department, which provided a muted response to the executions; the Saudi government; and Fahad Nazer, identified as a “political analyst with JTG Inc.” Nazer defended the executions, saying that they served as a “message … aimed at Saudi Arabia’s own militants regardless of their sect.”
What Politico did not reveal was that Nazer is himself a former political analyst at the Saudi Embassy in Washington. He is currently a non-resident fellow at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, a think tank formed last year that discloses that it is fully funded by the Saudi Embassy and the United Arab Emirates.
The Washington Post quoted consultant Theodore Karasik of Gulf State Analytics as saying that the executions were a “powerful message that Saudi Arabia is intent on standing up to its regional rival.” Karasik is a columnist at Al Arabiya, an English-language news organization based in the UAE and owned by Middle East Broadcasting Center, a private news conglomerate that has long been financially backed by members of the Saudi royal family. Its current chairman is Sheikh Waleed bin Ibrahim, a billionaire Saudi businessman whose brother in law was the late King Fahd. (Al Arabiya‘s coverage of the crisis is almost comically pro-Saudi, featuring headlines like “Storming embassies.. Iranian speciality.”)
The U.S. government is obviously not eager to alienate a government that President Obama has wooed with warm words and over $90 billion in arms sales. The diplomatic offensive by Saudi-financed flacks and media has provided some space for it to provide a muted response to the execution.
Yes, you read that right. $90 billion. Make sense considering Saudi Arabia is now the world’s biggest arms importer.
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The day Saudi Arabia runs Dry (oil) Cannot come too soon.
Fuck 'em.
The very fact that "We" support these headhunters pisses off this here old veteran royally.
Why not leave the oil in ground by not purchasing it?
We can't all live where we work.
That is changing.
Yeah, because more people ain't working.
why not explain them "charm offensive", nice definition of charm ((physics) one of the six flavors of quark) here:
http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/charm
i try to imagine all these thinktank people and propaganda specialists behind their desks designin a nice charm offensive for us, and hell yeah, strike, lets do some beheadings and and action in the ME, lets rock... oh my.
Ghawar is pumping water already...
Ghawar has been pumping oil stained water for years. A cross section of the field shows vertical wells are pumping a lot of water but they drilled horizontal wells (like fracking wells) along the top of Ghawar that are pumping oil like crazy; 'super straws'. The problem there as you can immagine when the water level gets up to that horizontal line it turns to water all at once. The typical oilfield production sine curve is now a sharks fin. One day and it's over and all the royality leave and retire to Malabu or the Riviera.
And Fuck the UN and the Nobel Peace Prize commission too.
"Despite its appalling human rights record, Saudi Arabia was awarded a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council last year and this summer was selected to oversee an influential committee within the council that appoints officials to report on country-specific and thematic human rights."
you forgot to say: Fuck David Cameron and his fellow colleague world leaders.
Release the 28 pages, which everyone & their mothers know implicates the Saudis in the 911 attacks. Unleash Hell on those Crypto Zionist's, turn Saudi Arabia into a parking lot & take their Oil.
Amen.
And let's keep Hillary from lending them our Air Force...
https://youtu.be/gS1t7Jk25Yo
Well that would be interesting... but they never will I'm afraid.
i was right with you up until the take their oil bit. (and upvoted)
Fuck me, the reason they hate us is because they know we divide them and conquer them, and that means we help exacerbate any fault lines within their culture that brings out their ugliness, which then justifies our racism. I dont pretend we havent got a clash of civilizations on our hands. But can we try not to feed the cycle? Bloodlust is just around the corner. Ask yourself what your role is in it.
Saudi Arabia is the head of the UN human rights comittee, and it crucifies, beheads, and chops of hands at the same time.
The joke is on us so long as Saudi oil is purchased and Saudi security forces are armed by the West's arm factories.
And yet somehow on Saudis is joke. Biggest importer of arms on planet and with expensive high technological junk from USA can not but lose to hill people of Yemen.
Houthis are now sunk a dozen Saudi ships and maybe more, and Houthis without boats any.
Saudis are inadequate lazy boar hogs and even they own fight will not, must import from Colombia mercenary army.
I haven't seen any evidence they've sunk 12 ships, only that they fired at one at night. However there's plenty of videos on youtube of the Yemenis blowing up Saudi tanks.
Maybe it's those ships of the desert we hear about.
I've also heard they sunk 12 ships. However, right now I can only find a link that says they sunk 9 ships. They sank 2 in mid October.
This is the ninth time that a Saudi warship is sent deep into the waters of Bab al-Mandab Strait by the Yemeni forces. - Shttp://en.alalam.ir/news/1773661
Am loving the Yoda speak
Kinda makes you look forward to Talk Like a Pirate Day, argh?
90 billion in arm sales. Of course, got to arm those terrorists.
Al-Jazeera - Fair and Balanced
like the WAPO, CNN or NYT are more truthful...LOL
Al-Jazeera should be torched and burnt to the ground...
Al-Jazeera reported this:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/11/missile-warheads-seized-j...
The truth (except for the part about the warheads because apparently Jamaicans smoke way to much ganja):
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Police-find-machine-used-to-ma...
Standard Disclaimer: When the story first broke, nearly every major news outlet reported complete made up bullshit with zero facts backing their wildly spun stories with heavy shades of covert terrorism. I tracked the story for a few days tracing how the news flows, and how each news outlet added their own further embellishment. Al-Jazeera was the last news outlet to pick up on this, and published their tripe even after the truth was out that someone tried to smuggle a reloader into Jamaica.
I took interest in this because there were a lot of initial comments from exceptional Americans that claimed "terrorism" had come to Jamaica and the US was next.
Saudi Arabia is the rat's nest for the Wahhabism that is the religious and finance arm of Sunni terrorist worldwide. And everybody has known it all along. Bush Jr. knew it back on 9-11-2001. So what did he do? He attacked Iraq, the blithering fool.
He didn't want to draw attention to his father's skeleton closet.
What will surprise those who may already be surprised about the Dönmeh connection to Turkey, is the Dönmeh connection to the House of Saud in Saudi Arabia.
An Iraqi Mukhabarat (General Military Intelligence Directorate) Top Secret report, “The Emergence of Wahhabism and its Historical Roots,” dated September 2002 and released on March 13, 2008, by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in translated English form, points to the Dönmeh roots of the founder of the Saudi Wahhabi sect of Islam, Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab. Much of the information is gleaned from the memoirs of a “Mr. Humfer,” (as spelled in the DIA report, “Mr. Hempher” as spelled the historical record) a British spy who used the name “Mohammad,” claimed to be an Azeri who spoke Turkish, Persian, and Arabic and who made contact with Wahhab in the mid-18th century with a view of creating a sect of Islam that would eventually bring about an Arab revolt against the Ottomans and pave the way for the introduction of a Jewish state in Palestine. Humfer’s memoirs are recounted by the Ottoman writer and admiral Ayyub Sabri Pasha in his 1888 work, “The Beginning and Spreading of Wahhabism.”
In his book, The Dönmeh Jews, D. Mustafa Turan writes that Wahhab’s grandfather, Tjen Sulayman, was actually Tjen Shulman, a member of the Jewish community of Basra, Iraq. The Iraqi intelligence report also states that in his book, The Dönmeh Jews and the Origin of the Saudi Wahhabis, Rifat Salim Kabar reveals that Shulman eventually settled in the Hejaz, in the village of al-Ayniyah what is now Saudi Arabia, where his grandson founded the Wahhabi sect of Islam. The Iraqi intelligence report states that Shulman had been banished from Damascus, Cairo, and Mecca for his “quackery.” In the village, Shulman sired Abdul Wahhab. Abdel Wahhab’s son, Muhammad, founded modern Wahhabism.
The Iraqi report also makes some astounding claims about the Saud family. It cites Abdul Wahhab Ibrahim al-Shammari’s book, The Wahhabi Movement: The Truth and Roots, which states that King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, the first Kingdom of Saudi Arabia monarch, was descended from Mordechai bin Ibrahim bin Moishe, a Jewish merchant also from Basra. In Nejd, Moishe joined the Aniza tribe and changed his name to Markhan bin Ibrahim bin Musa. Eventually, Mordechai married off his son, Jack Dan, who became Al-Qarn, to a woman from the Anzah tribe of the Nejd. From this union, the future Saud family was born.
The Iraqi intelligence document reveals that the researcher Mohammad Sakher was the subject of a Saudi contract murder hit for his examination into the Sauds’ Jewish roots. In Said Nasir’s book, The History of the Saud Family, it is maintained that in 1943, the Saudi ambassador to Egypt, Abdullah bin Ibrahim al Muffadal, paid Muhammad al Tamami to forge a family tree showing that the Sauds and Wahhabs were one family that descended directly from the Prophet Mohammed.
http://m.strategic-culture.org/news/2011/10/26/the-doenmeh-the-middle-ea...
Not many people know that the Shi'a (Iran) and Alawites (Syria) are considered much worse than even Jews or Christians by the Wahhabis.
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Who did Al Gore sell out to?
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/01/03/al-gore-nets-reported-10...
dup
....Krispy Kream
Any dead muslim is a good muslim. They are even better when they are murdered by other muslims.
Just like their fucking British and American teachers....
Teach them that rape theft and murder is all they can anticipate when they are overrun by the American whore...
We'll fuck your mother(s), your daughter(s)... And "your children!...
Isn't that what the lie was all about when we decapitated Iraq in 2003!
As my father who was a Vietnam Veteran who understood the art of war well when he sat me on his knee to tell me you do everything you can to eviscerate the "vicitim" that did nothing to you and make him the villian You crush the soul out of him by raping his wife, his daughter and his children hoping all the while that they will fear you forever!...
Well guess what motherfuckers!... After 70 years starting with the Germans and Japanese this "shit show" is over U.S. (of which I am one) motherfuckers! Game Over!!!
Russia and China tear a new asshole out of it... It's ripe!!!
If I were an American soldier sailor, marine and airmen! Think twice you lilly white assed pusillanimous pieces of shit!
If I were you I'd finish the job of taking your own soul out of this World with a bullet to the head using your own hand first before you get your asses scorched by the "big boys"!!!
Eh. Lotta drama.
Sucks to be us, sucks to be them. We inherited the shit show, we did not write the script or start it. I hate my part in it. I feel trapped and sad when I see it so clearly. BUT I DID NOT DO THIS.
I will not be blinded by guilt.
Am I responsible now? Yeah.
But I did not start this. Neither did most of us.
You wake up where you wake up in the Matrix, the goo dripping off your body, the tubes that fed you, the tubes you fed them with, dangling from your body. You did not do that, do not take that on. What we do next is what matters. And know that they will not cut you a break, take that into consideration too.
Rethink your position, please, for all our sakes.
You did not do this either.
Yes you do "have plenty to do with it "excrement"...
We've had 14 years to right the wrongs with the U.S. military and the UCMJ that they should be following... Leading the way that they wouldn't commit treason by taking unlawful orders to kill when their government unlawfully commissions it!
Then the "U.S. fuckin boys and girls (post Nuremberg) in uniform" point the finger at us and say "it's not me"?!!! I'm just following orders!... You "civilians" need to make it happen and the finger pointing and "blame game" goes on... and on... and on... Until the cascading ritual ends in the muck and mess of our own creation that we "collectively" ourselves made!
Plenty of blame to go around but who is willing to travel to the Nation's Capitol collectively to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to make it stop before those "superpowers" of which I just mentioned carry the load for the smelliest sacks of shit that the American people are!!!
Your turn...
Nah.
You tell me what you have done to fight the shit show.
I'll go first.
I have, since 2005, been lecturing students in my courses about printing, the fed, housing, the economy, and energy issues. All of my students 2-3 classes a semester, 2-3 semesters a year, have been getting an earful for 10 years.
You tell me one of yours, then I'll tell you more of mine. I am not saying I am doing enough, but I am doing more than nothing.
What have you done?
"Excrement"
Been to every anti-war rally since our government made the decision to illegally invade and occupy Iraq and been a major participant of AE911 Truth since 2008... That's been 25 anti-war and Patriot Act(s)/NDAA civil actions in the Nation's Capitol and 7 9/11 Anniversaries in both Manhattan and Washington D.C.
What's your fucking excuse bitch?!!!
Your tone is not one that sells anything.
If I stood in front of my students and called them excrement and bitch, do you think they would bother to listen? They would shut down. Like I am now.
You and I see the problem differently.
If they don't have money, they can't have war.
Starve the beast. Take away your consent as much as you can. Tell people the truth. AND YES protest.
I think what you have done sounds like you have invested in what you believe in, though in a very poor spirit.
You do not think what I have done is worth while so I will not talk to you about movies I have paid to have shown at alternative movie houses to audiences, nor will I describe the lifestyle choices I have made to get off the grid and starve the beast.
All you want to do is rage.
Or troll.
I can't tell if you are real or not. You sure want a rise.
Bye Mr. or Ms. Muzzled puppy. I can go lots of places and be randomly abused. If you wanted to talk, I will be around.
M
You've seen my post of the American soldiers, marines posting rape and snuff videos of their exploits while in Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention Abu Ghraib and documentaries like this.
If you've shown those without getting your ass fired my hats off to you, but I seriously doubt it.
We're all to blame for this as long as we have for 14 years based on a lie that allegedly sacrificed more than 2,800 of our ownin lower Manhattan on 9/11/2001. And we're ALL colecctively the only ones who can will it to end before the other big two do it for us!
Night night!
I have shown pictures of Abu Ghraib abuses in my classes, maybe 30 or so photos on the over head. I provide a link to a lot more for them to explore on their own. I have a whole unit I do on the Military, industrial, school, prison complex. I bring in shit my own institution is doing to support it. Most of the students have NEVER EVEN HEARD OF ABU GHRAIB. They are beyond stunned to hear that our soldiers have done this. Some of them think I am lying. A few cry right there in class. Others will try to defend it and tell me that warfare used to be so much worse than it is now, this is civilized in comparison. They have fathers and uncles that have told them this shit. I have NOT been fired. Abu Ghraib is documented, real, in the news, etc. They can't get me.
You have to be patient, not judgemental of people. As awful as this shit is, they don't know. They can't guess what it does to folks minds to be left in these situations, war unfettered, unchecked, no adults in charge. The pols encourage it. What is insane is that we know the intelligence we get out of it is worthless. So why do it but to intimidate and horrify? And make enemies? Meanwhile someone is makeing MONEY. That is what I focus on.
We benefit from this too. That is where I find myself stuck and sad. How the fuck do we shake that off? I really can't. I can pick up from where I am at, use my assets here and now, and try to fight the beast where I am at.
Night night back at cha'.
I sure admire your articulated retort. Such a high level of emotional intelligence, has escaped me during such exchanges .
Re the Matrix movie analogy MsC, in the end 'The Machines', and 'The One', after trying to kill each other (and a certain agent, in an illusion, come flesh) numerous times, they came to a mutually terminal understanding - almost - they embraced each other, as essential to producing a better way to be.
Was either responsible for all the prior actions that got them to there?
No. But it was their choice what to do next. Not a bad woven series of analogies in those movies, if you can forgive the cheese and a place of utimate (triumphant multicultural) human refuge called 'zion' lol ... how did such a button-pressing name get into such a script?
I love waking up. Not that I think I am awake all the way. And I fall back asleep all the time.
It's about being present with what is. Do what you can. Don't freak out about the rest. Like you outlined to our mutual friend below, in the biggest picture of all (or on a long enough time line) it really does not matter.
Love is the plan, the plan is death. That is the title of a short science fiction story I loved as a teen. I think that says it better than our host's "on a long enough time line" line.
I think the Cohens are Jewish. They can't help it, it is in their indoctrination.
Every word is memory of imagination that's not now. There's no waking-up, that's someone's inadequate metaphor, there's only the memory-imagination blackhole that takes a person away with every thought and word. Each word is the gaping jaws of yesterday's remembered imagined realities. The remembered imaginations are the anti thesis of what we are.
You are the MsC past the thought symbols.
The past and the future are both constructs. Thought symbols as you say. My idea of being present is to not be caught in what was or what will be, but in the space that is existing/being (which one could argue is a construct as soon as I word it). There is comprehending, which is understanding, and then there is aprehending, which is the verstehen we have before words. We rarely can capture that space. The second I say now, now is gone and a then.
But the waking up I mean is understanding that things are not as they are presented to us, understanding how the world changes when you become suspicious of the reality that has been presented to you.
You and I are past, present, future, none of these things, everywherewhennow, and entirely something else simply because we are prisoners of words. Time and space are constructs. We are nodes of awareness feeding back experience to the all. Time and space stand still at the speed of light because all where/whens are perceived simultaneously. Light gets to the eye instantly at the speed of light, all where/whens are there for the perceiving. E = fucking MC2.
It's not too hard. Our culture is not built around that is all.
Isn't that what everyone does these days to justify invasions and freedom grabs?