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Subject: Saudi Corruption and the Revolving Door
Ex-pat2    8/10/2003 12:36:43 PM
Great site at: http://houseofsaud.htmlplanet.com/ An excerpt: "To understand the danger of having the House of Saud involved in anything you have to understand the way business is done in Saudi Arabia. Remember, oil is the source of all revenue in Saudi Arabia, and the Saud family - under the cover of government ministries - controls how this wealth is divided up amongst themselves. The Saud family has become very clever in making this all appear to have an air of legitimacy. Otherwise, their greed and corruption becomes so obvious as to incite unrest among all the other tribes on the Arabian peninsular - not unlike the response starving French peasants had when Marie Antoinette supposedly stated "let them eat cake". To accomplish this, oil revenue must appear to be the asset of all Saudi citizens, managed for their welfare under the auspices of official government ministries (although you will not find any major government ministry not ran overtly or at least behind the scenes by anyone other than an Al Saud). Then the next step is to parcel out all this money - breaking it up into huge government contracts that uses a smoke and mirrors accounting sytems that would make Arthur Anderson green with envy. All this oil money has to be spread out - with enough trickle down to appease tribal leaders - with of course the House of Saud getting the lions share. Most readily apparent is that as many as 5,000 Saud princes get a stipend of about 250,000 dollars per year, with special perks like free transportation on the national airlines (Saudi Arabian Airlines). The trickle down to tribal leaders is much like it has been done for centuries. The first ruler of Saudi Arabia, Abdul Aziz used marriage (he took over 40 wives) to consolidate his power. However, it is the power of oil revenues which insures the continued loyalty of tribal leaders in Saudi Arabia today. This system also supports the oldest ally of the Saudi regime, the Wahhabis. And it is this funding of Wahhabiism, through this uniques "budgetary" system that directly ties the Sauds to Islamic terrorist operations. Again, while I am not intending to go into detail about the funding for terrorism I must state the following fact: The the tribe of Saud came into power, formed the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and remains in power today, due primarily to it's longstanding partnership with the Wahhabi sect of Islam centered in the Najd region (which includes Riyadh). It is this sect which supports all the Madrasahs around the world. It is these "Islamic schools" that serve as fertile breeding grounds for the recruitment of future terrorists. And it is where young students are brainwashed on a curriculum of hatred for Western values, in general, and Israel and the U.S. in particular."
 
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