http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/saudiarabia/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:42:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418710/posts They forced "their slave" to clean, cook and care for children as well as provide sexual favors upon request. faithfreedom.og http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2418710/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 00:42:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417308/posts Security: Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the attempted destruction of Flight 253 were released from Guantanamo two years ago. The case for indefinite detention has been made once again, and not in Illinois. Sometimes America's chickens do come home to roost. In a statement released Monday, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, which counts among its leadership two former Guantanamo detainees, claimed responsibility for the attempted destruction of Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the crotch bomber, told FBI agents he was trained for his Christmas Day mission in Yemen by top leaders of the group who provided... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417308/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:44:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417102/posts New evidence has emerged that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was closely associated as early as age 25 to a key adviser to a Saudi billionaire who had mentored the founding members of the Black Panthers. In a videotaped interview this year on New York’s all news cable channel NY1, a prominent African-American businessman and political figure made the curious disclosures about Obama. (See Video Clip Below) Percy Sutton, the former borough president of Manhattan, off-handedly revealed the unusual circumstances about his first encounter with the young Obama. “I was introduced to (Obama) by a friend who was raising money... newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417102/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417009/posts In the wake of the miraculously failed Christmas day Jihadi attack over the skies of Detroit, we are starting to see our governmental mechanisms crank into gear to institute policies to prevent terrorists from attacking us successfully. Never mind that it was that very governmental bureaucracy which enabled the Jihadists to penetrate secure areas with explosives and come close to killing 270 people on Christmas day. It was our incompetent governmental bureaucracies which granted a known Jihadi a visa to enter the United States. It was our governmental bureaucracies which let him get on an airliner without a passport. It... Terror Trends Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417009/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:49:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415490/posts SNIPPET: "Discussion: I first observed discussion of binary explosives on the al-Firdaws forum in January of 2007. In light of recent events I will post here my archive:" SNIPPET: "Implementation: On Christmas Day, 2009, Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab boards a flight in Amsterdam, bound for Detroit, and on final descent he attempts to set off what was most likely a binary explosive. Thank goodness he either screwed up or had bad instructions, because the chemicals he was working with were evidently quite good." INTERNET HAGANAH.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415490/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:37:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416155/posts PHOENIX - Tensions are running high after Friday's attempted terror attack aboard an airplane, and those fears sparked a security scare at Sky Harbor Airport Saturday night -- and two men had to be pulled off a plane. The two men were described as Middle Eastern and were reportedly acting suspicious. The flight crew called ahead for law enforcement and security officials to meet them on the tarmac. When the US Airways flight from Orlando landed in Phoenix about 8 p.m., the passengers on board were told to remain in their seats. Police officers boarded and pulled the two men... MYFOXPHEONIX.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416155/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 11:23:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415741/posts Top Qaeda militants escape Yemen attack Ahmad Al-Shemairi Sana’a – A US-born radical cleric is alive and well following reports he may have been killed in a Yemeni airstrike against suspected Al-Qaeda hideouts, friends and relatives said Friday. The government said it targeted a meeting of high-level Al-Qaeda operatives in Thursday’s airstrike in the remote Shabwa region. It claimed at least 30 militants were killed, possibly including Anwar Al-Awlaki, a radical cleric who has been linked to the shooter in last month’s attack at the Fort Hood military base in the US. In addition to Al-Awlaki, the top leader of... Saudu Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415741/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:21:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414242/posts The secretive U.S. air strike against suspected al-Qaida in Yemen last week is the latest in what has been a fast-growing campaign to better equip and fund Yemeni forces so they can eliminate the expanding al-Qaida safe havens there. The Pentagon has poured nearly $70 million in military aid to Yemen this year, a massive financial infusion compared to nothing in 2008. Much like the effort with Pakistan's Frontier Corps, the military has boosted its counterterrorism training for Yemeni forces, and is providing more intelligence, which probably includes surveillance by unmanned drones, according to U.S.. officials and analysts. The heightened... Associated Press via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414242/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:42:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413694/posts CAIRO - A Saudi-owned newspaper says that one of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's daughters has taken refuge in the Saudi Embassy in Tehran after eluding guards who have held her and five brothers under house arrest for eight years. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413694/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:16:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413639/posts Infiltrators given 48-hr ultimatum By Abdul Aziz Al-Rubei’i Major military operations in Jizan are ‘over’ SAUDI-YEMEN BORDER – Prince Khaled Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, Assistant Minister of Defense and Aviation, said Tuesday that “all major military operations on the border are over.” Prince Khaled said that “only individual efforts carried out by sole infiltrators remain, and they are being dealt with immediately.” Prince Khaled issued a stern warning for an unstated number of infiltrators shored up in the village of Al-Jaberi. “The village will be destroyed over their heads if they do not surrender in 48 hours,” a deadline... Saudi Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413639/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:47:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413435/posts Energy: An oil company wants to invest its profits in clean-burning American natural gas. A Hungarian billionaire and a "green" politician want to stop it. This is the real Climate-gate scandal. While the greenies of the world united in Copenhagen to talk about the weather, emitting a Third World-country-size chunk of greenhouse gases to gather there, the world's largest oil company, Exxon Mobil, was doing something about it. On Dec. 14, Exxon agreed to buy XTO Energy, a natural gas firm, in a deal valued at $41 billion. XTO is one of the leaders in something called "fracking" technology, in... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413435/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 01:25:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412297/posts SAUDI-YEMEN BORDER – Saudi forces carried out strikes on 30 armed infiltrators attempting to take areas of Ka’ab Jaber Mountain to the north of Mt. Dokhan at dawn on Sunday. Sources at the front lines said that ground artillery supported by air strikes killed possible infiltrators who were attempting to penetrate a valley leading to areas where the Saudi military was present. The sources said that Saudi forces and paratroopers were continuing their advancement to pursue infiltrators who have reportedly suffered “heavy” losses and have had their supply lines cut off, all of which has led to a “drop in... Saudi Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412297/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:48:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411714/posts UBL was 17th of 24 sons and 31 daughters. UBL has stated that it was "not a Koranic union", that (his mother) A'alia was only Mohammed’s maid and concubine (she was referred to by the other wives as “the slave”).UBL became boyhood friends with the future Crown Prince Abdul Rahman (currently 2nd in line for King).In 1967 UBL inherited $300 million. By 15, UBL was influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood.UBL set up at least three terrorist training camps in North Sudan. UBL established training bases in northern Yemen. 11 children by Najwa: Abdullah (1976), Abdul Rahman (1978), Sa’ad (1979), Osman... Internet Anthropologist Think Tank http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411714/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:00:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411033/posts Saudi Arabia, amid heavy fighting with Shi'ite rebels, has begun erecting another security fence along its border with Yemen. Saudi military sources said the Defense Ministry has overseen a fast-track project to construct a barbed wire fence along most of the 1,600-kilometer border with Yemen. The sources said the project reflected an urgent requirement for a physical barrier to block the flow of thousands of Shi'ite rebels and their supporters from Yemen to the Saudi kingdom. "The infiltration has reached massive proportions," a Saudi source said. "Thousands are crossing into the kingdom." World Trubune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411033/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 10:07:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410245/posts The 30th summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council, meeting in Kuwait this week, expressed its solidarity with Saudi Arabia in its fight with the Shi'ite Houthi rebels in northern Yemen. The Kuwaiti emir noted that Saudi Arabia is facing "flagrant aggression that targets its sovereignty and security by those who have infiltrated its territory." The formerly little-noticed conflict between the Houthi rebels and the Yemeni government is now taking on the coloration of an additional hot front in an ongoing region-wide cold war. The conflict in northern Yemen reveals the ongoing Iranian regional effort to convert Shi'ite populations into assets... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410245/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:58:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407003/posts Video on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erk22YkMybA Saudi Arabia uses fighter jets against Yemeni Houthi rebels. Both Yemen & Saudi Arabia accuse Iran of arming the rebels. Why did Arab satellites carriers drop Iranian Al Alam TV? And will the war of proxies lead to a confrontation between Saudi Arabia and Iran ? YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407003/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 07:09:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406500/posts A senior official from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has recently met with Houthi rebels and Hizbullah activists in Yemen to coordinate joint military operations against Saudi positions along the border. Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, quoted on Sunday Arab sources as saying the three-way meeting also aimed at developing a plan to escalate the military situation along the Saudi-Yemeni border. Al Bawaba http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406500/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401918/posts Dr. Richard Antoun of Binghamton University, a retired professor of anthropology with a specialty in comparative religions allegedly was stabbed four times in the chest by a Saudi national, Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, a cultural-anthropology grad student. Professor Antoun was a peace activist, and a convert to Judaism, and was known on campus as "a really nice guy." The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2401918/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:23:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405433/posts According to Gannett News, the the Saudi Arabia government has agreed to pay the legal fees for accused killer Abdulsalam S. Al-Zahrani.Al-Zahrani is charged with the stabbing death a week ago of Binghamton University professor Richard Antoun. Gannett News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405433/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:03:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405219/posts An Iranian hospital in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa has been ordered shut down amid reports that the facility was used as cover by Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security for support and funding of Shi'ite Zaydi rebels. The 60-bed hospital has four operating rooms and six intensive care units. The ostensible reason for the closing was the hospital’s failure to pay rent. However reports from Sanaa say it was due to the illicit Iranian intelligence activities from the facility. Geostrategy-Direct.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405219/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:40:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404378/posts Saudi Arabia rebuffed charges that the US kidnapped a Iranian nuclear scientist on a pilgrimage to Mecca, a Saudi newspaper said Wednesday, while a leading Iranian politician branded the act "terrorist behaviour." Saudi Foreign Ministry spokesman Osama Nugali told Asharq Alawsat that he was "stunned by the declarations and allegations" from Tehran, which he "deplored." Nugali said that nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri's disappearance earlier this year had sparked an extensive investigation by the Saudi government. "After having been informed of his disappearance by the Iranian delegation (in Mecca), Saudi authorities undertook an intensive search in Medina as well as in... SpaceWar http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404378/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 07:31:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404364/posts The reported capturing of a Muslim women in Reus (Tarragona) and the issuing of a stoning sentence for adultery by religious fanatics are a gauge of a phenomenon that has already appeared in Holland and France, and which is now taking root in Catalonia: the creation of Islamic "moral brigades" by fundamentalists, who claim the role of judges and police officers imposing a strict observance of Sharia, or Islamic law. The theatre of the incursions of these Islamic "moral patrols" are the rural towns where the mosques are controlled by Salafists, a fundamentalist sect of Islam, with a substantial presence... Paola Del Vecchio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404364/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 06:31:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403375/posts War On Terror: The anti-war crowd says the small number of enemy fighters inside Afghanistan doesn't justify sending 30,000 fresh troops there. They fail to understand the larger problem. Sen. Barbara Boxer complains al-Qaida is scarcely in Afghanistan. She cites an intelligence report leaked to ABC News that only 100 fighters are actually present inside the country, along with several thousand Taliban fighters. "I do not support adding more troops," the California Democrat argued, "because there are now 200,000 American, NATO and Afghan forces fighting roughly 20,000 Taliban and less than 100 al-Qaida." In other words, why are we even... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403375/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 02:01:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402645/posts SNIPPET: "Al-Qaida's network in the Arabian Peninsula (Yemen) has released the audio-recorded wills of two mujahideen operatives who were recently "martyred" in clashes with local security forces -- including former Guantanamo Bay detainee #114 Yusuf Muhammad Mubarak al-Jebairy al-Shehri. The younger brother of a senior Al-Qaida member, al-Shehri first left his home in Saudi Arabia in mid-2001 in order to wage jihad alongside the Taliban because he "thought that participating in jihad with the Taliban was the right thing to do... the Taliban were good Muslims.” In the midst of fleeing the crumbling Taliban frontline in late 2001, Yusuf al-Shehri... COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402645/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 06:38:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402295/posts During the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark on Monday, Saudi Arabia officials believe the climate science has been "shaken" and that they want an independent inquiry. The Climategate scandal has rocked the environmental communities across the globe prompting scientists and public officials to play a game of “he said, she said” and now a prominent Saudi Arabian Chief Climate Negotiator, Mohammed al-Sabban, believes the climate science has been “shaken” due to thousands of leaked e-mails and documents, according to AFP. Al-Sabban further called for an independent international investigation into the Climategate scandal; however, he doesn’t want the United Nations... Digital Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402295/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 20:56:28 GMT