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Independent: Saudi Royal Family Protects VIPs, Lets Ordinary Pilgrims Die
[ALMANAR.LB] An article posted on the British The Independent newspaper on Monday shed the light upon the corruption that has been lately rocking the Saudi royal family, particularly after its brutal aggression on Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... more than six months ago. "Why don't they spend some of their oil wealth on making the Hajj safe, rather than wasting it on a cruel and futile war in Yemen?" the author asked. "Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... began its bombing of Yemen at the end of March. The assault continues. Every UN agency has lit the red light of caution -- Yemen is a humanitarian catastrophe. Firm numbers of dead and maimed are hard to come by. The UN estimates that over 2100 civilians have been killed. That every Yemeni is in danger of death is clear," the article read. Moreover, it made an analytical revision of the Saudi-US aggression on Yemen, justifying the absence of UN envoy to the attacked country by the deeply American involvement in the killing. "In the UN Human Rights Council, the Netherlands called for an official investigation of the bombing in Yemen. But Saudi Arabia, with US backing, has preempted the Dutch resolution. The Saudis want the UN to provide technical assistance to the Yemeni authorities that they back. This is a deft maneuver to block any investigation of Saudi atrocities in Yemen. The US has rearmed Saudi Arabia during the carnage. It is implicated in the civilian deaths. No wonder there will be no UN mission to Yemen," it said. "While the negotiations in Geneva continued and while Yemen burned, two columns of Hajj pilgrims ran into each other in Mina, Saudi Arabia, on the first day of the Id al-Adha...These columns ran into each other because the police blocked off key roads. These roads are intended to manage congestion," the article added. However, a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... trying to find an answer for "Why were these roads blocked?, the author said that early indications suggest that the authorities had closed the roads to facilitate VIP pilgrims. "So much of Mecca, like Saudi Arabia in general, is designed for the VIP and the VVIP," he noted. Posted by: Fred 2015-09-29 |
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