Rumors that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman has hired mercenaries to torture recalcitrant royals and officials sleeping in the ballroom of the Ritz Carlton in Riyadh have been circulating since shortly after last month’s “corruption crackdown” naked cash grab.
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman
Now, Middle East Eye reports that one of MbS’s guests has reportedly died under torture rather than fork over his money and assets to his domineering relative. He was reportedly beaten and tortured so bad his family members had difficulty recognizing his body.
Major general Ali Alqahtani, who was detained in early November as part of an alleged anti-corruption drive, had been working in the royal guard forces.
He was the manager of the private office of Prince Turki Bin Abdullah, the son of former king Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, according to the newspaper.
Alqahtani died on 12 December after being tortured with electric shocks, and his family struggled to recognise him after receiving his body, according to sources, the newspaper reported.
We know this might come as a shock to some – Tom Friedman and the New York Times said MbS was such a nice guy! But that doesn’t change the fact that he is effectively extorting members of his own family to help plug a gaping hole in the Saudi government’s budget, willfully employing violence when necessary in a fashion that would make Tony Soprano proud. Case in point: Yesterday, we noted that the Saudi government had reportedly made Prince Alwaleed bin Talal – one of the world’s richest men - an offer he cannot refuse: Either fork over $6 billion to the Treasury, or spend the rest of his life being strung upside down and tortured by foreign mercenaries.
Back when oil was at $100 and above, the Saudi economy was firing on all cylinders, and nobody even dreamed that the crown jewel of Saudi Arabia - Aramaco - would be on the IPO block. But official data released earlier this week showed the Saudi economy contracted this year for the first time in eight years. It’s estimated to have shrunk by 4% as thousands of state-subsidized jobs have disappeared.
But despite the contraction, the Saudis have announced a radically expansionary budget for 2018. The government is forecasting spending at 978 billion riyals ($260.8 billion), up 10% on 2017 estimates, as the royal family’s proxy war against Iran in Yemen enters its third year.
Even though oil prices are seemingly stuck at $50 a barrel, the Saudi government knows that its survival depends in part on placating the country’s citizens, who’ve grown accustomed to the trappings of a lavish welfare state.
This goes back to one of the reasons MbS has been able to get away with his crackdown: millions of regular Saudis have lauded MbS’s treatment of his fellow royals, seeing it as their long-overdue comeuppance.
Given that political opposition to the Crown Prince – who is expected to soon succeed his ailing father as king.
oops! Hey, did you write down those pin #'s and passwords? Oh fuck!
WTF State Torture? This is like Crimz against Humanity ...?
Why isn't Red Cross sent in check conditions?
Why isn't UN condeming?
How can US be allied with this Crap?
You've got to break a few royals to replenish the treasury for a new round of thieving and corruption.
The king is dead, long live MBS.
""He was reportedly beaten and tortured so bad his family members had difficulty recognizing his body.""
@ One of Our Best Allies ???
Corruption crackdown using corruption. So does the government still get the money because he died?
Live by the sword, die by the sword. Chop chop.
MBS is going to catch a round sooner or later. For now his usefulness remains. Once the shake down is complete it will be in the interest of the puppetmaster for the puppet to catch a round and thus "justice will have been served" in the eyes of the rivals being shaken down. They still won't get their money back though. Funny how that works.
But...but...but I've got these IOU's, which are just as good as money.
Even better in fact.
That's why the only way for MBS to save his worthless butt is Petro Yuan ;)
They livin' most their lives livin' in a wahhabist paradise. On a serious note, have you hugged a fracker today?
TWB (Torturers Without Borders) gives its approval.
Those Blackwater types are pretty handy with the steel. Regulators.
What is weird is this; that 2000 years ago, there were no people even resembling Jews in the middle-east at all.
Turns out that there is not a single ancient Jewish city in what is now called Israel. There is not a single city where the Hebrew script is used on the statues and buildings. There is not a single city where the buildings are in the ancient Jewish architectural style. In fact, there is not even a category of "ancient Jewish architectural style".
If you check out all the ancient cities in Israel, they are all Greek, and their ruins are still there for you to visit. Their inscriptions are in the Greek script and the buildings are in the ancient Greek architectural styles.
Here is a list of some of the known ancient Greek cities in (and near) Israel; Ecdippa, Seleucia, Ptolemais, Taricheia Arbela, Asochis, Sepphoris, Hippos, Dion, Sycaminum, Bucolon Polis, Itabyrium, Gadara, Abila, Dora, Comus, Gephrus, Crocodilion Polis, Caesarea, Straton's Tower, Narbata, Scythopolis, Pella, Samaria, Amathus, Ragaba, Gerasa, Apollonia, Sicima, Pegae, Joppa, Arimathea, Jamnia, Port of Jamnia, Lydda, Modiin, Aphaerema, Philadelphia, Birtha, Gazara, Beth Horon, Dok, Jericho, Samaga, Esbus, Medaba, Ladder of Tyre, Azotus, Port of Azotus, Accaron, Jerusalem, Ascalon, Anthedon, Gaza, Marissa, Beth Zur, Hebron, Adora, Engeddi.
The ancient Jewish cities in Israel are,.... well there aren't any. Not even one.
Here's an interesting example of a first century BC Greek inscription (i.e., in Greek letters) from Jerusalem's Temple Mount forbidding the entry of Gentiles (i.e., non-Greeks) to the Temple precinct....
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-temple-mount-warning-stone-is-clos...
Slack Jack's CHALLENGE:
Name ONE ancient city (that existed in what is now called Israel) where the building inscriptions are all in Hebrew, and the buildings are constructed in the ancient Hebrew architectural style (whatever that may be).
The Hebrew that is desired, is the Hebrew of the Dead Sea scrolls (supposedly from 2000 years ago), which is essentially modern Hebrew without points.
Then give a summary of "the ancient Hebrew architectural style" (you will have to make this up as it does not yet exist).
Then give links to photos of the ancient building inscriptions which show that they are written in Hebrew.
Then show that the buildings are constructed in the ancient Hebrew architectural style (that you have just defined/invented).
The Dead Sea scrolls Hoax.
The Dead Sea scrolls are a mixture of old documents that were hidden in a number of caves to be miraculously found and used to support the establishment of Israel, a country intended for Jews only.
The main document "finds" were in 1946 and 1947 in caves near the tiny ancient settlement of Qumran.
Israel was created in 1948.
The Dead Sea scrolls are the only really old (well supposedly really old) documents, in the Hebrew characters, that have ever been found. No other really old documents in the Hebrew characters have ever been found.
All other documents in Hebrew characters date from later than 800 AD.
Previous to the "finds", critics had pointed out the late date of all documents in Hebrew characters, and deduced that the Hebrew Old Testament must have been translated from the Greek Old Testament and not the other way round.
Then, low and behold,... a very timely miracle occurs.
The Dead Sea scrolls are "found" and dated to hundreds of years earlier than the oldest previously known documents in Hebrew characters.
Then, it is widely claimed that all the scrolls were produced and hidden in the Qumran caves before 70 AD (the supposed time of the mythical sack of Jerusalem by the Romans).
The critics are not given access to the scrolls nor even to photographs of the text, lest they spoil the party.
This goes on till certain critics are dead and the scrolls have been purged of all anachronisms (like Arabic numerals).
Then, in 1991, only 45 years after their "discovery", facsimile copies of the scrolls are made available to all.
So that, in brief, is the Dead Sea scrolls Hoax.
More, however, can be deduced....
One can even guess where the Dead Sea documents came from.
It turns out that some of the Dead Sea documents, for example, the "Damascus Document," are nearly identical to documents from the Genizah collection of the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, Egypt. So, it is likely that many of the Dead Sea scrolls had their source there.
Worldwide, there are two manuscripts of the "Damascus Document" from the Cairo Genizah and ten manuscripts from the Dead Sea scrolls. This strange distribution is a result of the fraud. The "Damascus Document" was first published in 1910 by Solomon Schechter in "Fragments of a Zadokite Work."
The Ben Ezra Synagogue was established around 900 AD.
Now, the Arabs have ruled Egypt since they defeated the Greek armies around 635 AD.
Now, the synagogue (and its Jews) existed happily, undisturbed, in Cairo, in the midst of the Islamic world.
So, maybe the original Jews were a group of Arabs.
This would explain why Hebrew and Arabic are nearly identical languages.
This would explain why the Hebrew and Islamic religious traditions are very similar.
And, it would also explain why Jews turned up in Spain with the Arabs (Moors).
Another couple of points:
It should also be noted that a few Jewish scholars (in particular, Solomon Zeitlin) have long insisted that the Dead Sea scrolls were a Medieval production. [Zeitlin was a well-known Talmudic scholar and would not claim this unless convinced it was true.]
Internal evidence from the scrolls themselves indicates a Medieval production. See, here.
And, the fact that many scrolls are written on vellum (90% of them) proves these are indeed a Medieval production.
It is estimated that 20 people occupied the site of Qumran (estimated by the number of inhabitants for whom there was room in the buildings). Now these 20 people were not just ordinary people, they read and wrote Greek, Phoenician, Aramaic, Nabataean, and Hebrew documents, like natives, and managed to write learned works on numerous religious topics (about 900 manuscripts were "recovered"), while gathering enough water, and raising enough food, for their survival, in a desert.
Some have tried to claim that as many as 200 lived at Qumran, but most have considered that number ridiculously high.
Anyway, I think it is clear that the Dead Sea scrolls are a bunch of old documents that have been thrown together and sold to a gullible world.
http://www.preearth.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1175
SlackJack,
What you have to UNDERSTAND is that today's converted Jews are NOT Hebrews. They're just IMPOSTORS living on stolen Palestinian land.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/a-brief-history-of-th...
Didn't MBS just buy a $300 million dollars castle/chateau in France?
Doesn’t MBS buys the whole hotel and beaches wherever he goes?
Thank goodness MBS is just screwing the family/royal members. Wait when these run out money, MBS will have to go to another galaxy to squeeze this much money he’s getting from these ‘royal’ members.
“Capitalism is the theory that the worst people, acting from their worst motives, will somehow produce the most good”. – John Maynard Keynes
It's a SHEIK-DOWN.
this pun has been reported earlier.
mbs is clearly riding a tiger and if he continues to whatever conclusion he imagines, there is a good chance of a wider revolution occurring. he will have damaged the aristocracy so much, particularly in the eyes of the rest of the population, that a restoration seems a near impossibility. and that no one, no one, of the many he has robbed, tortured and killed has a friend, relative, or employee motivated and skilled enough to kill mbs also seems a near impossibility.
could be a dictator, could be elections, but the house of saud is finished imo.
Which is hilarious. They’re not just Islamic but Arabs on top of that.
Now I understand why they have such discounts on their tortured sheiks: their state of freshness is not too good and they would like to get rid of them before they are dead. Like cheese or pork chops in supermarkets.
I'm making over $15k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... http://disq.us/url?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.Jobzon3.com%3Ab8eR_DQLwGRPVGtFvv...
No big deal. Just a little piece of rough civil forfeiture. We have it here too.
FFS. And all you dumb-asses were bitching about the "Jews". Now we find out the "Jews" are not REALLY the "Jews"! Now, finally, the rest of us will get a rest from................................................................................... IT'S DEM JEWS!
The Gnostic texts are not fake and they were better anyway. Some of it is very strange but some of it is very cool.
Jesus said, "The pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of knowledge (gnosis) and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they allowed to enter those who wish to. You, however, be as wise as serpents and as innocent as doves."
His disciples said to him, "Show us the place where you are, since it is necessary for us to seek it."
He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him hear. There is light within a man of light, and he lights up the whole world. If he does not shine, he is darkness."
Jesus said, "If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/thomas_poxy.htm
What's funny is that some of it appears to be showing up in Star Wars. Of course this theme repeats in texts from all over and way back.
Ms No: ………..Some of it is very strange but some of it is very cool.
So, you might appreciate this series: Resurrection: Ertugrul
Warning: It’s a Turkish series so it’s a subtitle series. This series has everything, drama, action, love story, adventure, and so on. And it’s very complex series because its background has lots of religion. The characters are all underpinned on their religion believes.
Great acting. Great story. Great script. Great film/series.
I highly recommend, if you can deal with the subtitles.
Jesus character simply describes how magnet works. Parables only information system silly hairless apes possessed to preserve ancient, possibly alien technology
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You repost this bullshit over and over and over. For the love of God, get a life . . .
Dear Jackass,
From your moronic intellectually dishonest post.
"Here's an interesting example of a first century BC Greek inscription (i.e., in Greek letters) from Jerusalem's Temple Mount forbidding the entry of Gentiles (i.e., non-Greeks) to the Temple precinct...."
No, you jackass, Greeks are Gentiles too..moron. Gentiles are all non Jews / Europeans. dumb ass. Like when Jesus was talking to His disciples about the Gentiles. He asked His disciples to go guide the Gentiles, so off they went to do just that..moron.
And, you can go see Joseph's tomb, the Wailing Wall, and all kinds of ancient Jewish archeology in Israel. I went there myself.
So maybe you should take your anti Semite trash talk and flush it down the toilet where it belongs..and if you can't find any 3000 or 4000 year old intact Jewish architecture, maybe you should ask the Muslims why they destroyed everything...that how Muslims operate, unless you are a low IQ moron and know nothing or are an anti Semite loser who loves to lie to further your hatred.
Get a life.
Palestinians are Semites. Khazarians rule Israel,
The wailing wall that many Jews visit is not the western wall from the ancient Jewish temple, but in fact is the western wall of the Roman Fort Antonia. Fort Antonia was a permanent Roman fort at the time of Jesus. Fort Antonia was 800 feet north of the temple and the southern wall of the fort was connected to the northern wall of the temple by double colonnades.
Do we know this is Blackwater?
https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=who+is+mbs+using+bl...
Ronin in any case.
Ahem...TWB---Torturers Without Borders is an adjunct of TLM....Torturers Lives Matter
Yes, all a Soros Joint
the saudis will die in mass from starvation during next war
Thirst would be a more probable end, given the stores of grease under those garments.
no, they're too busy bleeding cash and fowling water to have the time for one
Saudi Arabia started pumping extra crude few years ago in order to break the back of Russia financially.
I remember those stories from back then.
Now it seems that they have managed to fuck Venezuela and then themselves while Russia is still standing.
Putin has learned the lessons well from the colapse of the Soviet Union. There is a reason why he is not taking the bait from various attempts to have him over react.
Now this is a Christmas gift.
Shitskins killing themselves.
Kinda like daily Chicago / Detroit / Baltimore.
A gift that keeps on giving.
Venezuela didn't need any help fucking itself up.
The thugish dindu socialists had no problem doing it all by themselves.
^^^ This.
What's the latest on Bandar Bush?
Have the torturers tazered his balls to the size of raisins yet?
In which case, the USAF will bomb his hairy ass into the 18th century.
The PetroDollar gives him an air force full of american mercenaries, the PetroYuan means King Khalid AFB will host the strike aircraft.
How about doing that to the top billionaires in the US?
Plenty of assets out there to take.
Once the Black and Brown are a majority - it is inevitable - for the Hamptons Crowd - with McCabe confirmed - there is no Federal Bureau Investigation but a privatized hit squad - sooner or later it will turn on those with assets
and then they will confiscate endless properties in every state just like in Rhodesia with Mugabe - all the farms of the whites on the bsis of Russian collaboration or other new type of nonsense
its all coming !
With just a little fire discipline they’ll calm down. There are several hundred million guns in private hands in the USA.
If they waterboarded him, that would be OK then, right? That would make them close allies.
Hillary's money base is being killed off.
Saudi general? LOL! The Saudis could not beat Luxembourg or Lichtenstein in a war.
Correct, there is a shit ton of dissent and radicals living in that kingdom, ask Anwar Sadat about loyalty.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rhu-YgCyPz4
Didn't Barry bow deep for these guys? Picked the loser again poor Barry