Saudi ambassador's colourful shopping habits revealed (oil ticks alert)

AFP ^ | Nov 16 2007

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The Saudi ambassador to London's allegedly colourful shopping habits have been revealed in an embarrassing expenses claim including guns, karaoke machines and "party night" girls, a report said Friday.

The more than three-million-pound claim also includes expenses for top-of-the-range off-road cars, a thermal night-vision kit for his Hummer H2 and a 391-pound bill for a takeaway meal, The Guardian said.

The bills were included in documents submitted to the High Court by a former employee of Prince Mohammed bin Nawwaf bin Abdul Aziz, a nephew of King Abdullah, who is claiming he was not reimbursed for the expenses.

His family's former private secretary Walid El Hage, a Briton of Lebanese extraction, says he spent money on the prince's behalf during trips to Rome, Vienna, Casablanca and Paris in 2004 and 2005.

Items detailed in the expense claim..include:

-- a Beretta pistol for 6,761 euros, as well as antique guns, a shotgun, and swords (66,000 euros). Also two Czech CZ75D and CZ97B pistols, a French Famas assault rifle and a Micro-Uzi machine gun of Israeli origin;

- 43 luxury watches at a cost of 350,000 pounds, including a Patek Philippe for 23,000 and two Jaeger Le Coultre for 17,500 and 16,700;

- a fleet of Yamaha Grizzly and Big Bear quad bikes for 13,000 pounds;

- five Raytheon thermal night vision cameras, to be fitted on an H2 Humvee US-army derivative vehicle: 183,000 dollars;

- a crocodile Birkin bag listed at 18,770 euros. Outfits from the couturiers Lanvin for a further 150,000 euros;

- on a trip to Morocco "hotel extra suite expenses, rooms for girls etc: 1,465 dollars ... girls party night 5: 2,500 dollars... Moroccan sweets arrangement to take away: 250 dollars... HRH cash in hand: 20,000 dollars."

- "two Arab karaoke machines" for 3,180 Saudi riyals.

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Here is a full itemized expenses list, must be seen to be believed:

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Guardian/documents/2007/11/15/court11.pdf

With oil at above $90 the Saudis are raking in almost a BILLION DOLLARS every DAY, and spend it on whores, drugs, and the proliferation of radical Islam.

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I would like to know the difference between an “Arab karaoke machine” and a regular one.

[onedoug]

Typical islamist goings-on.

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Party Girls..$250
Cash in Hand....$5000

The end of the list gets more interesting....

[Army Air Corps]

Line 24.1 on the list is interesting:

Jean, exp. Trip, cases, diwan, virgin, taxi, virgin..........4,751.00

[lilylangtree]

Yep, the rise in price of oil is to keep the corrupt House of Saud in luxuries paid for by the average consumer.

[beethovenfan]

This is as good as it gets for this guy and others like him. Eternity awaits.

[SouthTexas]

Whores and drug dealers have to eat too.

Although the proliferation of Islamic radicalism we could do without.

[reagan_fanatic]

I would like to know the difference between an “Arab karaoke machine” and a regular one

The arab one contains a shaped charge and a pre-paid cell phone.

[The Great RJ]

Wealthy Saudis have never managed a business, been entrepreneurs or really earned their wealth. They use foreign companies to exploit their oil reserves and just rake in the money. Their spending habits should come as no surprise and are little different from a kid being given a big inheritance.

Their lavish lifestyles and foolish spending may well come to an abrupt halt when high oil prices spur the development of new energy sources and technologies and the price of oil eventually plummets. My wife has predicted that maybe within our lifetimes and certainly in the lifetimes of our children, these now oil rich Gulf States will be some of the poorest places on earth.

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from your wife's mouth, to God's ears.

Achieving Energy Victory
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926362/posts

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"The arab one contains a shaped charge and a pre-paid cell phone."

Oh man, I should have seen that coming :-)

[Grizzled Bear]

I would like to know the difference between an “Arab karaoke machine” and a regular one.

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The Arab Machine faces Mecca.

[WLR]

Their lavish lifestyles and foolish spending may well come to an abrupt halt when high oil prices spur the development of new energy sources and technologies and the price of oil eventually plummets. My wife has predicted that maybe within our lifetimes and certainly in the lifetimes of our children, these now oil rich Gulf States will be some of the poorest places on earth.

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1 Their Ambassador did not spend 60 seconds worth of their countries revenue. He actually sounds pretty modest in his expenditures Scale is a matter of perception...

2. It is their money to spend as they see fit.. Not our business as none of it reportedly went to kill Coalition members.

3 As far as they becoming “poor” with the exception of those on top they are poor and depend upon patronage.

4. The Wahabi movement is designed to push the influence of Islam into the West and seize political control. The Wahabis are funded in part by the Saudis.

5. They know exactly what they are doing in their quest for world domination.

6. They have so much money at their disposal this is a no-brainer. What are 20,000 multi millionaires when you make billions?

7, No one who is anyone is buying US or Allied Politicians directly anymore, that is for losers... The new way to corrupt Western Politics is to provide the means for a distant cousin of an Elected Official or Bureaucrat to become wealthy.

A hot stock tip or a strange business partner is all it takes. Of course with the unwritten and unspoken understanding that everyone in the extended family will “benefit” including your Politicians immediate family members and the Politician/bureaucrat who is well aware of the game (It is the same for the MSM/Press).

7. Across the board the Arabs are so far ahead of us due to the ease with which they can corrupt our media and politicians we think we are first.

Bad news for US and our Allies? yes... I also think that is really how things shake out right now..

W