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Facts VS Fake: The reality behind recent developments in Saudi Arabia
2017-11-11
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Numerous fake news have surfaced recently across news and social media related to developments in 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...
. Some of these emanate from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
i and Lebanese media sources while others are from international outlets quoting unknown sources.

Following are the top 9 fake news in circulation. However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
facts as Al Arabiya English gathered, point to a different direction:

1) Saad Hariri
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
’s movements are restricted in Saudi Arabia and that even he is under investigation.

The fact is Hariri, has been ’free to move around’ as confirmed by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian to Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
1 radio.

Earlier, Hariri was received by King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Cutodian of the Two Holy Mosquesand Lord of Most of the Arabians....
and he also met Western ambassadors. He even travelled to Abu Dhabi and met Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

2) Hariri’s plane returned to Beirut from Riyadh without him.

The plane did not visit Riyadh at all, but returned directly from La Belle France.

3) Guards confiscated the phones of Hariri and his aides from inside his private plane when they landed in Riyadh.

Hariri traveled to Riyadh on a regular flight in a commercial plane.

4) That the bank accounts of around 2,000 people has been frozen.

The number of those who are being questioned have been put couple of hundreds, as per the statement of the Attorney General.

5) Around 500 people were jugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
The Attorney General, in his statement on Thursday, announced that 208 people were being questioned, while seven of them have been released.

6) The amount of money involved in the corruption investigation is up to $2 trillion.

The amount is about $100 billion, according to the Attorney General.

7) Hundreds of private companies were seized and their employees were terminated.

Business is continuing as usual and only personal accounts were suspended, according to the Attorney General’s statement.

8) Saudi stock market has collapsed.

On the contrary, the market witnessed a rise and reacted positively to the anti-corruption drive and the promotion of the values of transparency.

9) What is going on is a power struggle.

There is a total consensus in the Kingdom and there is absolutely no challenge to the current establishment and power structure.
Posted by:Fred

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