{"id":67945,"date":"2015-12-21T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=67945"},"modified":"2015-12-21T05:15:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T05:15:58","slug":"saudi-royal-family-announces-its-new-global-sunni-military-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/12\/saudi-royal-family-announces-its-new-global-sunni-military-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Royal Family Announces Its New Global Sunni Military Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

15 Dec 2015 – <\/em>An official announcement from the world\u2019s leading, and most fundamentalistic, Sunni Islamic nation, Saudi Arabia, on Tuesday December 15th, has introduced a Sunni-Islamic counterpart to NATO, and it includes one NATO member, Turkey, which is already at war against NATO\u2019s enemy Russia, and against Russia\u2019s ally the non-sectarian, secular Shiite, Bashar al-Assad, who runs Syria.<\/p>\n

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The Sauds\u2019 \u201cJoint Statement on Formation of Islamic Military Alliance\u201d<\/a> has been signed by 34 Sunni-led nations, with \u201cmore than ten other Islamic countries\u201d that \u201chave expressed their support for this \u2026 alliance and will take the necessary measures\u201d to join, \u201cincluding Indonesia\u201d (the highest-population Islamic-majority nation). All of those \u201cIslamic countries\u201d are specifically Sunni-led, not<\/em>\u00a0 Shiite-led.<\/p>\n

The two top importers of U.S. weapons are #1 Saudi Arabia, and #2 Turkey.<\/a> Both are Sunni, and no Shiite nation is even on the list. The new, 34-nation-plus military alliance could cause U.S. military producers to soar. And the figures shown there for Saudi Arabia grossly understate the reality. For example, on 13 September 2010, Britain\u2019s Telegraph<\/em>\u00a0 bannered \u201cUS secures record $60 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia,\u201d<\/a> and other lesser arms bonanzas to the U.S. from the Sauds came in the years after, so that a figure of only \u201c$1,199,000,000\u201d for the year 2014 (given in the first of those two links) is no fair indication of the reality, which is that the Saud family dwarfs any other buyer of U.S. armaments. And, U.S. \u2018news\u2019 media refuse to allow their reporters to cover the ugly reality of how those weapons are being used \u2014 and they fire any who publicly object<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia is owned by King Salman al-Saud<\/a>, the world\u2019s wealthiest person<\/a>, who might now be on his way to becoming the Sunni faith\u2019s globe-spanning \u201cCaliph,\u201d or Islamic Emperor \u2014 an aspiration of his family ever since his ancestor Muhammad Ibn Saud in 1744 swore an anti-Shiite oath, along with the fundamentalistic anti-Shiite cleric Muhammad Ibn Wahhab<\/a>, who agreed that his followers would endorse Saud\u2019s descendants to rule Arabia if the Saud clan would impose Wahhab\u2019s extremist interpretation of the Quran. In fact, an official of the U.S.-backed Syrian \u2018moderates\u2019 called recently for exterminating Shiites<\/a>, and the Saud family supports those \u2018moderates.\u2019 Furthermore, a recent poll showed that 92% of the Saudi public support ISIS<\/a>, which is only natural since ISIS is only enforcing the laws that the Saud family have already long been imposing upon their own public<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, ISIS claims that the Saud family are impostors<\/a>, who must be replaced by the leaders of ISIS, who won\u2019t \u2018cooperate\u2019 with \u2018the infidels.\u2019 And, so, the Sauds now are arming not only against Shiite-led nations, and against those nations\u2019 major ally Russia, but also against groups that, even inside the Sauds\u2019 own country, are more popular than the Sauds themselves are (which probably isn\u2019t very popular, since the Sauds refuse to allow so important a matter to be polled \u2014 any honest poll of it would expose to Western publics the total fraudulence of the aristocracies\u2019 rationalizations for their wars to replace the Syrian government and for the rest of the West\u2019s geopolitics<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The alleged purpose of this newly formed military alliance is \u201cto fight terrorism\u201d (something that all nations claim to be doing), an ambiguous phrase (something that aristocrats specialize in). It might include even the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh and the anti-Israeli attacks by the Shiite Hezbollah group in Lebanon, but this \u201cterrorism\u201d might (far more feasibly) instead refer only to the \u201cterrorism\u201d practiced by Sunni groups, such as ISIS and Al Qaeda \u2014 the groups that, like Saudi Arabia itself, are famous specifically for beheading<\/em>\u00a0 people they don\u2019t approve. (Shiite nations, even the most fundamentalistic one, Iran, prefer other methods of execution, if they use any at all \u2014 typically, such as in Iran, hanging.)<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia was founded in 1744 by an oath between Saud and Wahhab to exterminate Shiites and then take over the world. The Saudi royal family were the main funders of Al Qaeda: that group\u2019s bookkeeper and bagman who personally collected in cash each one of the many million-dollar-plus donations to Al Qaeda, said that, \u201cWithout the money of the \u2014 of the Saudi you will have nothing.\u201d<\/a> He listed almost all of the top Sauds as people from whom he had been collecting. There also is evidence<\/a> suggesting that the Saud family\u2019s Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud (who was on that list), a longtime buddy of both President Bushes, might have communicated to George W. Bush in private, well prior to 11 September 2001, that Al Qaeda was planning and soon would perpetrate a massive attack in the United States, and that Bush shouldn\u2019t let the CIA chief or his anti-terrorism specialists into his presence to provide him the details privately and, because \u201cWe don\u2019t want the clock to start ticking.\u201d The now-standard cover-story, that the U.S. couldn\u2019t have been protected from that attack, was already planned, even as the attack itself was being organized. Furthermore, it\u2019s widely suspected that the missing 28 pages<\/a> from the Senate\u2019s investigation into the pre-9\/11 intelligence, addresses this \u201chighly sensitive\u201d (meaning: the public isn\u2019t supposed to know it) matter. All that\u2019s been publicly released is that, \u201cIt\u2019s about the Bush Administration and its relationship with the Saudis.\u201d The Obama Administration is hiding those 28 pages from the public.<\/p>\n

The Sauds privately agreed to an alliance in 1945 with the United States to continue sharing with U.S. oil companies, if the U.S. would protect them from the Saudi public. Thus, the Sauds receive favorable press coverage in the U.S. press<\/a>, which are owned by members of the same U.S.-and-allied aristocracy that control the U.S. Government (via the press, lobbyists, etc., all of which they hire if not own). Consequently, too, the Sauds\u2019 foreign invasions to impose Sunni rulers even in majority-Shiite lands are hidden by the U.S. press<\/a>. This is a bipartisan hiding: not only mainstream \u2018news\u2019 media such as CNN and The New York Times and Salon are part of it, but the clearly partisan<\/a> (i.e., Republican) conservative \u2019news\u2019 media, such as those of Rupert Murdoch (Fox, WSJ<\/em>, N.Y. Post,<\/em> etc.) also are. (In fact, when the Saudi Prince who was the second-largest\u00a0stockholder in Murdoch\u2019s News Corp. sold most of his holding\u00a0of that stock in 2014,\u00a0Forbes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0noted that he \u201calso has a\u00a0substantial shareholding in Time Warner,\u201d which includes\u00a0CNN.)<\/p>\n

The Sauds\u2019 imperial announcement<\/a>, which provided no details on what is to be meant by the phrase \u201cto fight terrorism,\u201d stated:<\/p>\n

The countries participating in the alliance along with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are: Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Turkey, Chad, Togo, Tunisia, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea, Palestine, Comoros, Qatar, Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Malaysia, Egypt, Morocco, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, .Yemen<\/em><\/p>\n

(The dot before \u201cYemen\u201d is a typographical error in the Saudi announcement, one that the Saudi Press Agency commonly makes \u2014 it means nothing at all, except that the Saud family place low priority on editing \u201ctypos\u201d out of English translations of their official pronouncements.)<\/p>\n

Turkey is the only NATO member in this group. Turkey (after shooting down a Russian plane over Syria) is at war against Russia, because Turkey is trying to defeat the military campaign by Russia to destroy the many fundamentalist Sunni groups, jihadist groups including Al Qaeda and ISIS, that are trying to take over Syria. Turkey\u2019s virtual dictator, the fundamentalist Sunni Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, wants to sell Syria\u2019s oil on global markets \u2014 he\u2019s already doing it illegally, and wants to be doing it legally, such as by installing (with U.S. and Saudi help) a fellow-fundamentalist Sunni as Syria\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n

Tha Saudi announcement says nothing about what relationship (other than already including one NATO member) the new, Saudi-led, military alliance will have with NATO, which is America\u2019s alliance against Russia. (It used to be America\u2019s anti-communist alliance; but, once communism ended, the U.S. aristocracy kept NATO going, in order to take over Russia itself, such as by surrounding it with NATO nations and ultimately forcing out and replacing the current independent Russian government.)<\/p>\n

Outside NATO, the United States has additional major military bases<\/a> in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and longstanding alliances<\/a> also with Pakistan and Egypt, as well as extensive military cooperation with Jordan, UAE, and Kuwait.<\/p>\n

The U.S. has been trying to conquer Russia ever since the negotiations in 1990 for the end (which occurred in 1991) of the Soviet Union and of its Warsaw Pact (the Soviets\u2019 counterpart to NATO). And, like the Saudis, the U.S. is also hostile toward the world\u2019s leading, and coincidentally its most fundamentalistically led, Shiite nation: Iran. Moreover, both of these military alliances are also very much against Russia. So: NATO and the newly formed, Saudi-led, Sunni military alliance might ultimately join into one.<\/p>\n

A conference had been expected to meet on December 15th in Riyadh to select which jihadist groups would receive the backing of the Sauds to take over Syria<\/a>; however, that was cancelled when the Sauds announced that only a single jihadist group that\u2019s actually fighting in Syria would be allowed to attend. Most of the jihadist groups still want to overthrow the Sauds for working with \u2018infidels.\u2019 Consequently that meeting is not being held, after all.<\/p>\n

No Shiite nation was mentioned in the Saudi announcement of the new military alliance, and the possibility therefore exists that the reason why the Saud family created this alliance was as part of that family\u2019s intense hostility, ever since at least 1744, against Shiites.<\/p>\n

The response of the U.S. regime to the Sauds\u2019 war against Shiia has been twofold: to condemn it verbally<\/a>, while participating in (and even leading it) in the real world, the anti-Shiia operations against Syria and Iran (both of them because they\u2019re allied with Russia).<\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 <\/em>They\u2019re Not +Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/a>,<\/em> of\u00a0<\/em>Christ\u2019s Ventriloquists: The Event that Created Christianity<\/a>, and\u00a0of<\/em>\u00a0Feudalism, Fascism, Libertarianism and Economics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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