Posted on 11/08/2017 4:28:42 AM PST by SJackson
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FYI
“But there is clearly also something strategically more significant going on. While many of the officials arrested over the weekend threaten Mohammed’s power, they aren’t the only ones that he has purged. In September Mohammed arrested some 30 senior Wahhabist clerics and intellectuals. And Saturday’s arrest of the princes, cabinet ministers and business leaders was followed up by further arrests of senior Wahhabist clerics.
At the same time, Mohammed has been promoting clerics who espouse tolerance for other religions, including Judaism and Christianity. He has removed the Saudi religious police’s power to conduct arrests and he has taken seemingly credible steps to finally lift the kingdom-wide prohibition on women driving. “
“The files, which the Obama administration refused to release, make clear that Obama’s two chief pretensions – that al-Qaida was a spent force by the time US forces killed bin Laden, and that Iran was interested in moderating its behavior were both untrue. The documents showed that al-Qaida’s operations remained a significant worldwide threat to US interests.
And perhaps more significantly, they showed that Iran was al-Qaida’s chief state sponsor. Much of al-Qaida’s leadership, including bin Laden’s sons, operated from Iran. The notion – touted by Obama and his administration – that Shi’ite Iranians and Sunni terrorists from al-Qaida and other groups were incapable of cooperating was demonstrated to be an utter fiction by the documents. “
You can’t swing a dead cat without hitting a Saudi prince. There’s hundreds of ‘em.
CC
Hopefully the ties with radicals are irretrievably broken. The groundwork is being laid for the Iranian people to finally join the world.
Small wonder we have the problems we have.
Their countrymen fly airplanes into our buildings while we count women driving cars as great success.
And all get an allowance.
This shake up..if he can stay in power which many think he cant..will have profound effect on US..especially Dems and antifa
Funny how antifa was a bust last weekend
The Religion of Peace finally emerging?
Hopefully but doubtfully. But a good trend nevertheless.
One wonders how much Trump influence we are witnessing.
Probably less than we are witnessing their fear of war and losing to Iran.
I believe Trump and the new crown prince (Bin Salman) made a deal. The Saudi crackdown was a phase of Trump’s swamp draining program.
The world is changing.
...and putting on a different disguise.
Saudi money was behind the disintegration of Somalia in the late 80s.
Not that it took much of a push.
The collapse in the price of oil is having all sorts of interesting effects, almost all of them good.
Have you hugged a Fracker today?
We're seeing the emergence of a stronger central authority in Saudi Arabia, more like a modern federal state than a patronage-based oligarchy. Thanks SJackson.
Undoubtedly
Like Bank Vice Presidents.
I believe Trump and the new crown prince (Bin Salman) made a deal.
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He is now, the new King.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/876832/Saudi-Arabia-King-Salman-ruler-Prince-Mohammed-bin-Salman
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