Israeli aggression has resulted in the death of more Palestinians this year than in any other year over the past two decades, says an Israeli rights group.

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem, published a report notifying that Israeli aggression had killed 1,387 Palestinians including more than 300 children so far this year.

Most of the deaths occurred after Tel Aviv ordered three weeks of unabated aerial and artillery bombardment of the Gaza Strip at the turn of the year.

Medical sources put the number of deaths from the attacks at more than 1,400.

Overall Palestinian deaths due to aggression over the past 20 years added up to nearly 7,400 the report said, adding that hundreds of Palestinians are currently illegally incarcerated in Israeli jails.

The group issued the report on its 20th anniversary, which it announced through an obituary-like advertisement in the mass-circulation Israeli daily Haaretz.

“We are fed up and people are fed up of us, but four million people [who] live in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are to this day deprived of their most basic human rights,” it said.

Israeli regime’s President Shimon Peres was heading to Cairo on Sunday for talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Peres spokeswoman said.

“Mr Peres is due to meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak one on one during the late morning in Cairo,” Peres spokeswoman Ayelet Frish said. She said that he will return to the occupied lands in the afternoon.

She added that the two will discuss “the latest developments in the Middle East as well as” settlement talks between Israeli regime and the Palestinians.

They are due to make a statement to the press after their meeting, she said.

Israeli occupying regime’s media said that the discussions were due to touch on German-mediated talks for a prisoner exchange between Israeli occupying regime and the Hamas movement in Gaza Strip.

The deal would see Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Hamas in June 2006, released in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli regime’s jails.

Israeli media also said that Peres could bring up the possibility of creating a Palestinian state with provisional borders while the two sides carry out their negotiations.

Such a proposal has in the past been rejected by the Palestinians.

GUWAHATI: At least six people were killed and 40 wounded in two bomb blasts in northeast India’s troubled Assam state on Sunday, police said.Bombs hidden in bicycles exploded in front of a police station and a shopping complex in Nalbari town, about 70 km (43 miles) west of state capital Dispur, Jitmol Doley, a senior police officer told Reuters by telephone.

Police said the separatist United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was behind the blasts, but a senior rebel leader telephoned local newspaper offices and television stations to deny its involvement.

The blasts came soon after New Delhi announced the government will provide safe passage to top rebel leaders willing to talk and find a lasting solution to the decades old insurgency in the state.

Security forces have placed the entire tea-and oil-rich Assam state on high alert.

deploring the current situation of uncertainty in the lives of Nigerian to the advantage of ruling class is dangerous especially when the Shia Movement is seen by the Public as the only way out of the multifaceted problems.

The Kaduna state Police Commissioner Tambari Yabo  wrote  the Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police what he called Intelligence Report on the activities of Shias and Islamic Sect in Zaria Local Government of Kaduna´ in February 2009’. In the report the Commissioner alleges that members of the Islamic Movement (Shia movement)were stockpiling arms/ammunitions  in the Movement’s Film village at Dembo village and that the village also serves as training ground for Islamic Militants.

In the item 3 of the report the commissioner writes “ Intelligence Report further reveals that Fadiyya Islamic Center, which serves as the headquarters of the Islamic group in Zaria, not only accommodates some Shiite members; but also serves as a center where films are produced. These films are shot at the centre for onward delivery to Iran and other Shiites countries. These Films portray Nigeria’s image in bad light. This attracts sympathy for monetary form of donations from those countries…”

Despite all the unnecessary allegations cited by uninformed commissioner, investigations showed that the report was unintelligent and baseless. Immediately after the report,  series of  reporters from some National Dailies and interest groups visited the Film village and the Center  and gave various reports of what they saw. None of them reported any sign of militant activities or arms as alleged by the commissioner.

And of course, it is ridiculous to consider the report as intelligent, but a mere spurious speculation with insidious intent.

The Commissioner still  continues in the item 3 “ The center also serves as a printing center of two(2) newspapers namely Al-Mizan and Pointer Express. The papers are claimed to be published at Babban Dodo area of Zaria city. The Residence of Alhaji Hamidu Danlami, which was burnt during the crises at Babban Dodo was actually claimed to be the Publishing center. It was discovered to be false, because there was no sign of any printing machine or some past prints. The burnt house was purely residential. “

After the burning of the house of Alhaji Hamidu  it was revealed  that the house was purely residential as acknowledged by the Commissioner and this of course  goes to show that the house was burnt under the order of the Commissioner for allegedly serving as publishing center.  More so, there is no doubt that the thugs were sponsored by commissioner in collaboration with his masters in both the state and Federal levels. His statement reveals more” It was discovered to be false, because there was no sign of any printing machine or some past prints. The burnt house was purely residential´. The commissioner was not able to get any sign of printing materials though he ordered the burning of the house for allegedly printing Al-mizan and Pointer Express.

During the Ashura 1430 programme in Zaria this year government sponsored thugs  backed by heavily armed police, attacked the peaceful procession and later moved to the residence of Alhaji Hamidu and set it ablaze.  Four members were killed along streets in Zaria by the Thugs.

It would be recalled that, at the heat of the crisis in Zaria during Ashura, the Kaduna state Police Commissioner Tambari Yabo Muhammad led trucks full of armed policemen to the house of Sheikh Zakzaky with an obvious intent of invasion. Also, miscreant who carried out the mayhem in Zaria operated unhindered before the eyes of the police, and none was arrested for any crime. This indicated the CP’s complicity in the heinous crime.

Now, about two weeks ago some of the sponsored thugs in Babban Dodo paid visit to the leader of the Islamic Movement Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky in his residence expressing their remorse and begging for pardon from leader of their action during Ashura programme.

Speaking on behalf of the repentant thugs, the youth leader  expressed  dismay on how they were fooled into attacking the peaceful members and determined not to commit such hideous act in future.

The youth leader explained that the purpose of their visit to express their remorse over the attack they have carried out and to seek for pardon from the leader over the Ashura incidence where they were incited by the  Government to attack the residence of Alhaji Hamidu Danlami  in Babban Dodo area.

The youths, who majority of them are below the age of 30, expressed remorsefulness on how they have been lured to carry out the unfortunate attacks.

After listening to them the leader of the Islamic Movement explained that the enemies always use divide-and-rule tactic to have control over people. He added that  part of the methods used by those in the position of power is to subject the masses to abject poverty in order to use them to achieve their devilish agenda.

The leader explained further that the enemies of Islam have, for a very long time, understand that Muslims cannot be controlled without removing  the teachings of the holy Quran from being practised to extent that Muslims read Quran but do not stand by its teaching.  The Enemies also try to disunite the Ummah through buildings of many Mosques so that Friday Prayer, which is a sign of strength and unity, is not performed collectively.

The leader cautioned that what the thugs did of destruction of properties and stealing in the name of booty is not the teaching of Islam.

He concluded by calling on the youths to be mindful of any act they do as they will be accountable on the day of Judgment. He added that repentance has three conditions- being remorseful over what one did, to avoid committing it in the future and to return the stolen items or seek forgiveness from the owners.

That is how it ended; the thugs who were hired with peanuts turn repentants and expressed their remorse. one cannot but to conclude that there is level in which the so called thugs can be fooled in spite of the abject poverty and unemployment that characterized the Nigerian society today. Those who sponsor others stand the risk of facing deep resistance from the thugs and the general public. This is because of the level of awareness which is fast spreading amongst public with regard to social injustice amongst the so called Nigerian leaders- situation that manifested itself in all aspect human and economic lives of the masses.

So, deploring the current situation of uncertainty in the lives of Nigerian to the advantage of ruling class is dangerous especially when the Movement is seen by the Public as the only way out of the multifaceted problems.

In recent years Wahhabis’ influence is much than ever. Shias and also non-Shias suffer from Wahhabis. Radical Wahhabis give false report to the government to sow discord between Shias and the government. Their aim is to eliminate Shias from the earth. Now Wahhabis spreaded in the world, Such as Saudi Arabia, Yemen, South Pole, Europe, Asia and other countries. We, as a Muslims, can destroy them just by unity.

BEIJING: A gas explosion at a mine in northeast China early Saturday killed 15 workers and left 114 trapped, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV said.

The incident happened at about 2:30 am at a mine in Heilongjiang province, Xinhua news agency said, quoting the provincial coal mine safety watchdog.

The company said 528 miners were working in the mine, 10 kilometres from Hegang City, when the blast occurred, Xinhua reported. It earlier said 139 miners had been trapped.

CCTV said most of the miners had managed to escape.

Xinhua said vice premier Zhang Dejiang was going to the scene of the incident to direct rescue operations.

The safety watchdog said the mine is owned by the Heilongjiang Longmay Mining Holding Group, based in provincial capital Harbin.

China’s coal mines are among the most dangerous in the world, with safety standards often ignored in the quest for profits and the drive to meet surging demand for coal – the source of about 70 per cent of China’s energy.

Official figures show that more than 3,200 workers died in collieries last year, but independent labour groups say the actual figure could be much higher.

Lebanon’s Hizbullah group said that Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah has been re-elected as its leader for a sixth term. According to the AP, the statement said Naim Kassim also has been re-elected as the group’s deputy leader.

The election came as Hizbullah concluded its congress after months of work and adopted a new political document, believed to be the second of its kind since the open letter of 1985. It also endorsed a series of organizational modifications.

Additionally, Hizbullah elected the Shura Council members as follows:
–         Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah: Hizbullah Secretary General;
–          Sheikh Naim Qassem: Hizbullah Deputy Secretary General;
–          Sheikh Mohamad Yazbek: the head of Hizbullah spiritual body;
–          Sayyed Ibrahim Amin Sayyed: the head of Hizbullah political bureau;
–          Sayyed Hashem Safieddine: the head of Hizbullah Executive Council;
–          Hajj Hussein Khalil: Hizbullah Secretary General political advisor;
–          MP Mohamad Raad: the head of the Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc.

Hizbullah’s leadership elections are usually held every three years but they were last held in 2004. A Hizbullah official said the two-year delay was caused by internal Lebanese differences and the 2006 Israel-Hizbullah war.

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On 14 November 2009 the General Investigation Directorate arrested the Shi’a citizens (Hussain Abdul Mohsen al-Hassan , 26 years and Mustafa Ma’took al-Rasheed , 25) from Rummeila of al-Ahsa due to participation religious activities  in occasion of  the annual celebration of Imam Mahi’s birthday during the Islamic month of Sha’ban , which is not permitted by Saudi authorities .

Hussain al-Hassan and Mustafa al-Rasheed were sentenced to one week imprisonment on orders of Al-Ahsa governor ( Badr bin Muhammad bin Jalawi).

The two mentioned detainees are detained for the second times on the same charge .

It is worth to mention that the Saudi authorities arrested more than eight young Shi’a citizens on charges of  participation in religious activities in their areas.

According to Rohama website, Abdullah bin Abdul Mohsin Al-Turki, Director General of the league said, “the conference has been organized in order to help solve problems faced by young Muslims in today’s world, make them aware of the threats they are facing and prevent them from going astray morally and intellectually.”

“In the globalization era, Muslim communities are socially and culturally influenced by the West and it is the duty of Muslim scholars, organizations and media to stand up against such negative influences,” he added.

“A number of scholars and intellectuals of the Islamic world and officials in charge of Islamic organizations as well as university lecturers have been invited to take part at the conference,” he stated.

He went on to say that intellectual problems of the Muslim youth and their economic, social and psychological difficulties will be the themes of discussion at the three-day conference.

RAMALLAH: Israeli authorities on Wednesday demolished a house belonging to a Palestinian in Arab East Jerusalem saying it was “illegally built.”

The demolition, which comes less than 24 hours after Israel announced the construction of 900 new Jewish homes in East Jerusalem, sparked clashes with stone-throwing youths.

Police said the house in east Jerusalem’s Al-Isawiyeh neighborhood was demolished after a court approved the action.

“Local residents blocked several roads leading to the building and threw stones at police,” said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld. No casualties were reported.

The Palestinian Authority denounced the move. “Israel says that it is uniting Jerusalem. In reality, it is dividing Jerusalem through a series of discriminatory policies and laws,” said Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat.

Palestinians in East Jerusalem often build or expand their houses without permits because the authorizations are nearly impossible to obtain from the Israeli authorities.

Jihad Abu Znaid, Jerusalem’s representative in the Palestinian Legislative Council, said the demolition came after the house’s owner Abdulhalim Dari “had exerted all efforts to get a license.”

Abu Znaid told Arab News that “the Israeli occupation is going ahead with its barbarian policy against the Palestinian people, especially these arbitrary decisions.”

The Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights said the Jerusalem municipality handed new demolition orders to 14 citizens of Al-Isawiyeh, bringing the number of homes slated for demolition to 70.

The policy of house demolitions and settlement building is being used by Israel to increase the Jewish presence and manipulate the composition of the population in east Jerusalem prior to final status talks with the Palestinian Authority.

Tens of Wahhabi shaykhs in Saudi Arabia issued a statement demanding the murder of the Shias in Yemen.

After Saudi Arabia invaded Yemen and barbarically bombed villages located on the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia, in the Saada province where hundreds of Muslim women and children were killed, Saudi Arabian shaykhs demanded the murder of Shias.

These shaykhs claimed that the invasion of Yemen by the Saudi Arabian forces is religiously legal because it is a measure to prevent Iranian influence. They demanded the destruction of the men of the Al-Houthi Movement as well as the enslavement of their women.

Nasir bin Sulayman al-‘Umar and Sulayman bin Hamd al-‘Awdah, members of the intellectual board of the al-Qasim University, were amongst the signees of the document.

ISLAMABAD: The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has verified information about 37,787 displaced families (about 275,000 people).

At least 17,564 families claiming to have been displaced from South Waziristan were declared ineligible for assistance because their records showed multiple registration, invalid ID cards or because they were not from that tribal agency.

According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), families rejected on grounds of invalid cards or because they did not hail from that area could appeal against the decision.

According to a handout, 54,333 families were registered in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank between August and November.

Nadra has verified details of about 67 per cent of applications filed by the displaced people. About 20 per cent have been rejected because of registration issue, and about 11 per cent over concerns about authenticity of ID cards. About two per cent of the applicants were found to be not from South Waziristan.

‘With the conclusion of the verification process, the registration of displaced people from South Waziristan is now largely complete. No new application for registration has been lodged over the past week,’ said Mr Mengesha Kebede, UNHCR’s representative in Pakistan.

However, the registration desk at all centres in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank will remain open for the time being to assist people who have problems with their ID cards.

BEIJING — President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from hours of intense talks Tuesday determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers.

“The relationship between our two nations goes far beyond any single issue,” Obama said in a joint appearance with Hu that followed about 2 1/2 hours of private conversations.

Both leaders spoke in bold terms of the growing relationship between the countries and emphasized cooperation on the economy, climate change, energy and the nuclear threats of Iran and North Korea.

But in those areas and others, there remained differences that underscored that tensions would hardly be erased in Obama’s first, high-profile visit to China. Obama spoke at length about the nations’ joint interests and said, “I do not believe that one country’s success must come at the expense of another.”

Obama and Hu said they agreed on restarting the collapsed six-nation effort to rid North Korea of its nuclear programs. The Chinese said the effort was essential to “peace and stability in northeast Asia.”

Beijing has supported sterner sanctions against Pyongyang for its continued nuclear weapons program. And, as North Korea’s last major ally and a key supplier of food and energy aid, China is a partner with major leverage in six-nation talks with the North over the issue.

On Iran, where the U.S. needs China’s clout to help pressure the nation to give up any of its own nuclear weapons positions, Obama spoke with sterner language than Hu.

“Iran has an opportunity to present and demonstrate its peaceful intentions, but if it fails to take this opportunity, there will be consequences,” the U.S. president said. Hu made no mention of consequences, saying the Iran conflict is important to resolve through negotiations.

China has significant economic ties with Iran, and Beijing has appeared less willing to endorse a tougher approach to restrict Tehran’s uranium enrichment and suspected pursuit of atomic bombs.

In a minor step forward, Obama announced that the governments will reconvene their on-again, off-again human rights dialogue early next year. Previous rounds have fallen casualty to disputes over arms sales to Taiwan and other issues.

Hu expressed disappointment with the Obama administration over its decision to impose punitive tariffs and duties on imports of Chinese tires and steel pipes. “Our two countries need to oppose and reject protectionism in all its manifestations in an even stronger stand,” Hu said.

The Chinese president also called on the U.S. to respect China’s “core interests” — code for ending support for Taiwan and for the Dalai Lama, in his Tibetan government-in-exile.

On climate, Obama said the United States and China are looking for a comprehensive deal during next month’s climate change summit that will “rally the world.”

Obama said the goal at the Copenhagen meeting should be an agreement that has “immediate operational effect,” not just a political declaration. As the world’s two largest consumers and producers of energy, Obama said the United States and China must play a key role in negotiating an agreement.

Obama said China has helped the United States pull out of the worst recession in a generation. He said a revised economic approach will help increase U.S. exports and create jobs while helping bring about higher living standards in China.

Obama came to China seeking help with an array of global troubles. He and Hu sought to strike a balance between trading partners and competitors during Obama’s trip to China during his Asia tour.

A day before, Obama prodded China about Internet controls and free speech during a forum with students in Shanghai. His message was not widely heard in the country; his words were drastically limited online and shown on just one regional television channel.

He also suggested that China, now a giant in economic impact as well as territory, must assume a larger role on the world stage — part of “burden of leadership” it shares with the United States.

Eager to achieve a successful summit, the two leaders avoided spats on economic issues. With America’s budget deficit soaring to a yearly record of $1.42 trillion, China is the No. 1 lender to Washington and has expressed concern that the falling price of the dollar threatens the value of its U.S. holdings.

In the U.S., American manufacturers blame China’s own low currency value for contributing to the loss of 5.6 million manufacturing jobs over the past decade. During that time, America’s trade gap with China has soared.

With sightseeing in Beijing’s Forbidden City sandwiched in between their talks, the two leaders’ day was to end at a lavish state dinner in Obama’s honor.

Topmost on Obama’s ambitious agenda with Hu is the so-far elusive search for global agreement on a new climate change pact, stymied by disagreement between rich nations like the U.S. and developing nations such as China. Wealthier countries want legally binding greenhouse-gas reduction targets for themselves as well as for energy-guzzling developing nations such as China, India and Brazil. Those poorer nations say they will set only nonbinding goals and they demand assistance to make the transition to harder targets.

On the occasion of Eid al-Ghadir a ceremony will be held on December 6 in Bangkok.

The program will be held by Iran Cultural Center in Thailand for Muslims of the country as well as Iranian, Afghan, Indian and Tajik Muslims residing there.

Jalal Tamle, Iran Cultural attaché in Thailand, Hojjat-ol-Islam Amiri, representative of Al-Mostafa International University, Professor Ilyas, Thai intellectual and Hojjat-ol-Islam Sheikh Hussein bin Salem, a Thai cleric will present lectures on Imam Ali’s (AS) life, his Imamate and Velayah. They will also ntroduce Quranic and historical sources on the Ghadir event in both Persian and Thai.

Other programs of the ceremony will include a contest and a religious song to be performed by Abul Hasani a member of the Iranian center.

Saudi clerics have accused Yemeni Houthi Shias of working with Iran to try to spread Shi’ism, days before the start of the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage.

“Iranian cooperation with Houthi Shias in Yemen is collusion for sin and aggression,” Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul-Aziz al-Sheikh said in remarks published on Monday.

Riyadh launched an assault on neighboring Yemen’s Houthi Shias 12 days ago after they staged a cross-border incursion that killed two Saudi border guards.

“Houthi entered our territories, so … it is obvious that they should be fought since the kingdom here is defending itself,” Sheikh said.

The Houthi Shias said the Saudis had been allowing Yemeni troops to launch attacks against them from the mountainous territory they seized inside Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter.

Saudi forces have been using fighter jets and artillery to pound Houthi hideouts to enforce a 10 km (six mile) deep buffer zone inside the Yemeni side of the porous border.

Iran boycotted hajj for three years after 402 pilgrims, mostly Iranians, martyred in clashes with Saudi security forces at an anti-U.S. and anti-Israel rally in Mecca in 1987.

Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally which sees itself as the guardian of Wahhabi Islam, has often been at odds with Shia Iran, particularly since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

In a statement issued over the weekend, about 40 Saudi clerics accused Iran “destabilizes Muslim nations by implanting, financing and arming its agents to spread” Shi’ism, a direct reference to Houthi Shias.

Both the Yemen government and the Shias have said that the conflict between them is not sectarian.

Yemen stepped up a military campaign against Houthi Shias in August. Fighting between Yemeni troops and Houthis, who belong to Yemen’s Zaidi Shia minority and say they suffer religious, economic and social marginalization and neglect and totally discrimination, has flared on and off since 2004 in the northern province of Saada.

Saudi Arabia and its ally, the United States, fear Shia are gaining the rule in Yemen.

There is just some pictures of Yemeni Shia civilians, where Saudi and Yemeni forces brutally attacked them. OH MY GOD, Just see and Judge????!!!

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Srinagar, November 17 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani was arrested in Srinagar, today.

The spokesman of the forum patronised by Syed Ali Gilani told media men that the senior Hurriyet leader was scheduled to address doctors and students of Government Medical College at Karan Nagar this afternoon.

He was taken into custody and lodged in police station Shergrahi.

He said that Syed Ali Gilani, who addressed students at Kashmir University recently, was getting invitations from different educational institutions to visit them. “Today he was scheduled to address in the GMC but was arrested near the main gate of the college,” the spokesman said.

Earlier, addressing a press conference at his residence in Srinagar, today, Syed Ali Gilani had announced that in the fifth phase of district-wise protests against the occupation of Kashmiris’ private land by Indian troops, complete strike would be observed in Pulwama district on Friday. He said that a mammoth rally would also be organised in Pulwama. »

NEW DELHI: India has put its nuclear installations on terror alert, the Press Trust of India said on Monday, citing home ministry sources.

It said the new measures were ordered after it was found that David Headley, a US citizen arrested by FBI on terror charges, had visited some states having atomic installations.

The PTI said the Indian home ministry had asked all state governments protecting their nuclear plants to step up patrolling and vigil around the facilities as a precautionary measure.

They said that Mr Headley, accused of plotting terror attacks in India on behalf of Pakistan-based LeT, had visited Gujarat, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh — all with nuclear installations — raising suspicion that nuclear facilities could be on the radar of the terrorists.

‘The step is precautionary in nature. The states have been asked to increase the vigil and patrolling to thwart any sabotage attempt aimed at these vital facilities,’ a ministry official was quoted as saying.

The PTI listed six major nuclear energy plants operational in the country — Narora in Uttar Pradesh, Kaiga in Karnataka, Tarapur in Maharashtra, Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu, Kakrapar in Gujarat and Kota in Rajasthan, besides several other research and development centres like Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in Trombay.

Frail and frightened orphans of Heydan in Saada cry over the dead bodies of their mothers, fathers and sisters as Saudi fighter jets continue to bombard positions near the shared border with Yemen.
The tragic cries of women and children are silenced by the sounds of frightening Saudi rockets and cluster bombs falling from the sky, wounding more powerless civilians and leaving behind more destruction and carnage. Regrettably, the situation is all the same in other Shi’ite populated areas.
1-Since 10 days ago, the Saudi jets have been formally carrying out raids on Yemeni territory targeting Shi’ites of the Saada province and other areas in support of the central government in Sana’a.
The Yemeni soldiers, on the other hand, burn down the bodies of martyred men, women and children, or drag them around by cars in front of frightened children “to teach them a lesson.”
Powerless to face the fearless Shi’ite fighters of Saada on the ground, the coward Saudi pilots take it instead on the defenseless children or elderly men and women. The bloodthirsty Saudi puppet rulers are unmistakably carrying out the very same crimes that were committed against humanity by the criminal regime of Israel in Gaza, South Lebanon, Darfur, Kafar Qasem and many other civilian places.
The situation is so dreadful that prominent journalist Fahmi Hoveydai said, “Saada should be named the Darfur of Yemen. In Palestine we have the Zionists and in Saada we have the Saudis.”
2-Political scientist Samuel P. Huntington, the man behind the theory of The Clash of Civilizations, which states that people’s cultural and religious identities will be the primary source of conflict in the post-Cold War world, attended an international seminar on demography in February 2005 in Nicosia, Cyprus.
Addressing the participants, he said, “Saudi Arabia, the most repressive regime in the Middle East, is a place where there are no general elections and citizens play no part in politics. A family is ruling the oil-rich country in the style of Dark Ages. It is the closest US ally in the region, though. At the same time, the US remains the arch enemy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is the most democratic state in the region, in which people elect their members of the parliament and government. Of course, I am aware that the American policy vis-à-vis Saudi Arabia and Iran cannot be compared; still, we shall be hearing some interesting news coming out of Saudi Arabia in the near future.”
The Saudi foreign Ministry strongly condemned the comments made by Huntington and the US Department of State summoned him a few days later. However, the Associated Press, which had fully covered the international gathering in Nicosia, ruled out any mistakes in its quotes from Huntington, who passed away recently.
Weeks after Obama got into the White House, Simon Henderson, director of Washington Institute, which a joint intelligence bureau is run by the CIA and the Pentagon but bears the name of “Strategic Studies at the Department of State,” sent a comprehensive report to President Obama.
In his report, he wrote, “We predict major changes in the political arrangement of Saudi Arabia over the next 5 years. The country will possibly see a number of new kings during this particular period.”
Although the report does not talk about Huntington’s 2005 speech in Nicosia, it can still help bring to light some of the points not mentioned. Henderson discusses three major factors that could undermine the internal political dynamics in Saudi Arabia and consequently lead to the likely collapse of the Saudi regime. These three factors are:
A-The Impact of a Rising Iran on Saudi Arabia: Iran has taken huge steps towards technological/scientific advancements and growth despite 30 years of impasse with the United States. The parliamentary and presidential elections in Iran have equally encouraged the people of Arabia, especially young students, to fight for having a democratic country and be part of the political/democratic process.
The report goes on to state that Arab youth are somehow depressed and embarrassed that their counterparts in other parts of the world know that their country is being ruled by a family that decides their fate and they have no say in it.
B-The second factor is the rising wealth of Saudi princes in sharp contrast to the growing number of poor citizens, especially Shi’ites and non-Wahabi Sunnis. The report states that the central government in Riyadh has to some extent introduced social security programs to eradicate poverty and it has even allocated special budgets to improve public welfare and meet housing needs. But the report goes on to argue that these welfare programs have been ineffective in winning the much-needed approval of the general public.
C-The third factor is the close relations of the Saudi royal family with the United States and their pro-Israeli policy – despite the resentment of Muslim world. Accordingly, Muslims have some pressing questions from the Saudis with regard to their support of the Zionist regime – despite the fact that the royal family is caretaker of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest mosque in its holiest city.
Widespread protests as such have intensified, though, especially after the 33-day war on Lebanon and the 22-day war on Gaza by the Zionist regime. Interestingly, Iran, which is the powerful rival of Saudi Arabia in the region, has provided extensive support for Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Gaza’s Hamas government, thus winning Muslim admiration the world over.
Of course, it is exactly because of such humanitarian support that Iran has been branded sponsor of regional terrorism – a name that only suits the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia.
3-The above-mentioned report plus a myriad of others point to the obvious fact that the time for the puppet regime of Saudi Dynasty is indeed up and even if Washington seeks otherwise, it still cannot stop the regime from its imminent dissolution. Just as importantly, it seems Washington has got the Saudis involved in the Yemeni war on Shi’ites for a reason or two:
From one hand, Washington seeks to strike at the foundations of Houthi resistance movement by massacring Shi’ite populations in Saada, who have the full support of all Islamic resistance movements in the world – be it Sunni or Shi’ite. On the same token, if the Houthis defeat the Yemeni Army, they can easily become yet another powerful base for resistance in opposition to the hegemonic and pro-Western Arab political current.
On the other hand, the US is trying to hammer the Islamic resistance in Saada at the cost of the diminishing Saudi regime, whose time is running out fast.
4-Contrary to Western and Saudi media propaganda, the Shi’ite groups continue to resist the Saudi attacks coming from air, land or sea borders. So far, the invading Saudi Army has suffered heavy casualties – although its campaign of terror continues. These desperate acts of violence, however, merely draw attention to the inability of Saudi Army in overpowering the resistance.
In summation, many regional/international observers and sources have compared these hopeless Saudi acts to the barbaric invasions of Lebanon and Gaza by the criminal regime of Israel. They predict a similar defeat for the Saudi Army on the ground and an imminent collapse for the Saudi regime in Riyadh.