Arab country 'cooperates with Mossad'
Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:27:02 GMT

Assassinated Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh

The Israeli spy agency Mossad may have used intelligence provided by an Arab country to carry out assassinations in the region.

Israeli sources confirmed on Monday that Mossad chief Meir Dagan's reliance on cooperation with an Arab ( Read more... )

Posted Sep 11 2008, 07:01 AM by Douglas McIntyre

Saudi Arabia walked out on OPEC yesterday, saying it would not honor the cartel's production cut. It was tired of rants from Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and the well-dressed oil minister from Iran.

As the world's largest crude exporter, the kingdom in the desert took its ball and went ( Read more... )

"...backed by a Saudi prince in the royal family." an unnamed prince. Could it be Bandar Bush?
Bandar bin Sultan - Wikipedia


Alalam News Network - ‎ 11 hours ago ‎
RIYADH, Sept 3--Saudi Arabian security forces have foiled a military coup seeking to overthrow army officers loyal to the current Saudi King Abdullah.

According to Riyadh-based al-Watan ( Read more... )

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By LARRY NEUMEISTER

The Associated Press

Thursday, August 14, 2008; 11:29 AM

NEW YORK -- A federal appeals court has ruled that Saudi Arabia and four of its princes cannot be held liable in the Sept. 11 attacks.

The appeals court issued the ruling Thursday, saying the Saudi defendants are protected by sovereign immunity. It also agreed with a lower ( Read more... )

Gag Order

Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball

Newsweek Web Exclusive
Updated: 5:49 PM ET Jul 30, 2008

The United Kingdom's highest court today provided new details of how the Saudis pressured British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government to shut down a politically embarrassing bribery investigation two years ago that implicated the Saudi ambassador to ( Read more... )

Sat, 26 Jul 2008

Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility, a new report has revealed.

Jordanian Al-Majd daily quoted unnamed sources as saying that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Saudi officials are cooperating to construct the prisons which are to replace Guantanamo and US ( Read more... )

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
In my article last week, Court Documents Shed Light on CIA Illegal Operations in Central Asia Using Islam & Madrassas, we saw how the CIA, along with Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have been financing the promotion of radical Islam in Central Asia in a decade-long illegal covert operation.

The operation includes propaganda and ( Read more... )

Update

Saudis offer Moscow billions to break with Tehran

by Eric Margolis

Last week’s utterly useless and hugely expensive G8 summit in Japan was at least a welcome comic relief after all the bombast and threats flying back and forth between the US, Israel and Iran.

The world leaders dined on caviar as they earnestly discussed hunger and the global ( Read more... )

Original in Russian

Machine translation

July 14, 2008 22:45

Russia and Saudi Arabia concluded an agreement on military-technical cooperation

Moscow. July 14. INTERFAX - Agreement on military-technical cooperation (PTS) between Russia and Saudi Arabia signed on Monday evening in Moscow.

As the correspondent of Interfax, the agreement in the presence of ( Read more... )