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2017-11-08 Arabia

Saudi prince gunned down while resisting arrest

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Posted by Herb McCoy7309 2017-11-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 Wow just wow! Look at his assets in Wikipedia:
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Fortune
Abdul Aziz received exactly half of all profits of the successful Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC).[12] He had a number of palaces in Saudi Arabia and around various other parts of the world which have cost over $2 billion[24] which include:

London Mansion on the Billionaire's row in Kensington, now for sale at £100 million.[25]
A very large private stately residential complex with the replica of Alhambra and several other famous forts set within well maintained splendid gardens covering an area of 134 acres in the exclusive area overlooking Wadi Hanifa in Riyadh. 24.645808°N 46.643202°E
Massive farm near Janadriya covering an area of 715 acres or about 2.89 square kilometers at the northern outskirts of Riyadh. Satellite photos reveal large swimming pools, luxury tents and its own water and sewage treatment facility set within a large date farm.25.138224°N 46.79251°E
In Jeddah he has several palaces with private yacht berths and each palace has more than twenty guest houses .[citation needed]
Al Khobar Palace with berth for his super yacht Prince Abdulaziz [26]
In addition, he reportedly owned "the Pyramid House" on Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills, California.[27][28] He also had several super yachts including Prince AbdulAziz, which is one of the largest built in the 20th century.[29]

Business activities
His ties with Saudi Oger are well known in Saudi Arabia. The company was founded by Rafik Hariri, who built Saudi Oger into a large company with the assistance of King Fahd. Hariri said ‘The meat on my shoulder is from King Fahd,’ according to As'ad Abu Khalil, a professor of political science at California State University Stanislaus, who has written several books and runs the blog The Angry Arab News Service. Hariri, also a former prime minister of Lebanon, was assassinated in 2005. His son, Saad Hariri, took over Saudi Oger and became Lebanon’s prime minister for 14 months before he was ousted in 2011. Saad Hariri and Prince Abdul Aziz are known to be close.[11]

Abdul Aziz bin Fahd owned fifty percent of the MBC, of which the remainder is owned by his maternal uncle Waleed bin Ibrahim al Ibrahim. It is reported that Prince Abdul Aziz dealed with both the profits and the ideology of MBC Channels, including al Arabiya.[12]

It emerged in a New York Supreme Court affidavit that he was the secret owner of a $1 billion property portfolio in the US [13] which owns the American headquarters of the oil giant BP and the defence contractor BAe Systems. In January 2002 The Daily Telegraph newspaper valued the portfolio at £4 billion.[14] The affidavit, which was subsequently partially sealed by the judge but had already become available on internet blogs [15][16] stated that the properties were being managed by a group which included Sheikh Majid Al Ibrahim, Prince’s maternal uncle, and that total control of the portfolio was ultimately seized by Interventure Capital Group and Interventure Advisers, both of Manhattan, New York. According to a press release issued by Hyatt Hotels Corporation,[17] Interventure Capital Group is run by Jaber Al Ibrahim and is an adviser to Naseel Holding Company, the Al Ibrahim family investment vehicle chaired by Sheikh Majid Al Ibrahim.[18]

According to a report in The Daily Telegraph in October 2010, Interventure Capital Group is also behind another major portfolio of properties which had been controlled by a UK-based company, StratREAL.[19] Assets purchased by StratREAL on behalf of Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd included Fifth Street Towers, a Minneapolis office complex, for $294 million in 2007.[20] In May 2012, following a foreclosure on the complex for mortgage default, Fifth Street Towers was sold at a sheriff's auction for $1 over the outstanding debt of $110 million.[21]

A mansion at 5 Palace Green, on London's Kensington Palace Gardens (nicknamed "Billionaires' Row"), was reported to be being offered for sale by Abdul Aziz in July 2013 for £100 million.[22]

Posted by 3dc 2017-11-08 01:00|| 2017-11-08 01:00|| Front Page Top

#2 also read this Bannon viewpoint:
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Posted by 3dc 2017-11-08 01:12|| 2017-11-08 01:12|| Front Page Top

#3 They seemed to have targeted people with media interests.

Posted by phil_b 2017-11-08 01:46|| 2017-11-08 01:46|| Front Page Top

#4 in this Saudi version of ‘Game of Thrones’, the 32-year-old Bin Salman shows that he is willing to throw the entire region into jeopardy to wear the royal gown

Oh, finally somebody who doesn't buy all this modernization dreck.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-08 03:04|| 2017-11-08 03:04|| Front Page Top

#5 I think it is more likely he is clearing potential dissent before rolling the dice against Iran.

Posted by phil_b 2017-11-08 03:17|| 2017-11-08 03:17|| Front Page Top

#6 The Saudis don't need to win a war against Iran. They just need to wreck enough of their oil industry to send oil to $150 and bankrupt Iran.

Posted by phil_b 2017-11-08 03:24|| 2017-11-08 03:24|| Front Page Top

#7 Hmmmm...guess we won't see a bodycam vid.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-08 06:25|| 2017-11-08 06:25|| Front Page Top

#8 regime gunmen attempting to make an arrest.

Isn't that known as the police?

Posted by AlanC 2017-11-08 07:32|| 2017-11-08 07:32|| Front Page Top

#9 According to the 3dc Bannon link: Bannon said a driving force behind the transformation of Saudi Arabia and other major events in the Middle East is the recognition by many regional powers that “President Trump and the United States of America have had enough of it and are just not going to tolerate anymore this financing, the exporting of radical Islamic terror into Western Europe and the United States.”

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-08 09:18|| 2017-11-08 09:18|| Front Page Top

#10 For what it's worth.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-11-08 10:30|| 2017-11-08 10:30|| Front Page Top

#11 its worth alot!

Posted by 746 2017-11-08 11:46|| 2017-11-08 11:46|| Front Page Top

#12 JohnQC - yes!

Posted by 3dc 2017-11-08 12:04|| 2017-11-08 12:04|| Front Page Top

#13 So the Saudis were in LV for a preacceptance Red Flag demo and the MB shooting was a diversion?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-11-08 13:15|| 2017-11-08 13:15|| Front Page Top

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