Yemeni invasion of Saudi Arabia

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Al-Masirah Yemeni TV reporter inside Saudi territory taken by Yemeni tribesmen loyal to the majority Yemeni army and allied Houthi forces.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=25&v=mVJFKKwgpkA

The Yemenis have captured territory in the Jizan province of Saudi Arabia which many Yemenis regard as occupied Yemeni territory which should ultimately return to the motherland.

American-made Bradley vehicles and other American junk has been destroyed by the tribesmen.





An American-made vehicle being pictured destroyed in the photos below:






American made Abrams tank destroyed.



Yemeni TV journalist on top of the destroyed American-made Abrams.



Saudi soldier captured by Yemeni tribesmen.



Yemeni soldiers. Yemeni forces have captured a Saudi military base in Al-Khubah in Jizan.



Saudi soldiers killed by the Yemenis, this is not being highlighted by the agenda-driven corporate western media.

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VIDEO OF YEMENI COMMANDO OPERATION IN ASIR, SAUDI ARABIA WITH CAPTURE OF SAUDI SOLDIERS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA6ZtlG4ErI

Image from 0.55 mins of the video showing what appears to be a capture Saudi soldier.





Image of what appears to be a captured Saudi soldier being fed water by pro-Houthi fighters.They wipe his face gently with a tissue and feed him with water.

These are Houthi fighters because in the video they can be heard chanting standard Houthi phrases such as "Al mawt al Amreeka, Al mawt al Isra'il" etc.



Captured Saudi equipment, Yemeni fighters have captured a Saudi base in Rabou'ah, Asir, Saudi Arabia.

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The Yemeni fiasco has sent alarm bells ringing in the House of Saud and senior princes may even be thinking of what could amount to a collective dynastic/tribal coup against current tribal head, Salman and his two proteges Nayef and "Baby Salman".



Saud tribe chief, Salman and the two crown princes.

The following article has been read across the world and is from the middle east eye, a website making more and more of an impact.



Senior Saudi royal urges leadership change for fear of monarchy collapse

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A senior Saudi prince has called for an emergency meeting to discuss replacing King Salman and his son Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed





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Tuesday 22 September 2015 09:15 UTC

A senior member of Saudi Arabia’s royal family has circulated a letter expressing fear that the monarchy may collapse unless the king is urgently replaced and the position of deputy crown prince scrapped, Middle East Eye can reveal.

On 4 September, a grandson of the late King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud wrote a four-page letter calling on the royal family to hold an emergency meeting to address concerns that the House of Saud may be losing its grip on power.

“We [have] got closer and closer to the fall of the state and the loss of power,” the letter read.

“We appeal to all the sons of King Abdulaziz – from the eldest Prince Bandar to the youngest Prince Muqrin – to summon an emergency meeting with all the family to discuss the situation and do everything that is need to save the country.”

The letter was signed “a descendant of the King Abdulaziz of the House of Saud”. MEE spoke to the letter’s author, who confirmed he is a grandson of Abdulaziz, but asked not to be named for fear of negative repercussions.

The document has been carefully circulated among princes, using secure means of mobile communication, because royal family members are under surveillance by those in power, the letter’s author said.

Generational change and power politics

King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud established the modern state of Saudi Arabia in 1932. Since his death in 1953, the country has been ruled by his sons but this is expected to change when the incumbent King Salman’s rule ends, as the heir to the throne Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef is a grandson of Abdulaziz.

This generational shift in Saudi Arabia – despite 13 of Abdulaziz’s sons still being alive – is likely to have been the source of much debate among royals, leading to the letter being written, a regional expert told MEE.

“The most important recent development in Saudi Arabia has been the transition occurring within al-Saud itself in terms of moving from the sons of Abdulaziz to the grandsons,” said Christian Koch, director of the Saudi-funded Gulf Research Centre.

“It is not at all surprising that in light of these changes there is debate going on in the royal family about its future direction.”

The letter partly represents a generational conflict within al-Saud and comes after powerful wings of the family battled for supremacy in the aftermath of the late King Abdullah’s death this January.

The zero-sum game of Saudi politics was exemplified then by the newly anointed King Salman replacing his predecessor’s men with his own people – including the powerful head of the royal court Khalid al-Tuwaijri who was switched for his Salman's inexperienced 30-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman.

It later emerged that during Abdullah’s final hours, Tuwaijri tried to secure his own position and the second generation of Saudi’s rulers by contriving to have Abdullah’s son Prince Meteb made deputy crown prince – the position now enjoyed by Salman’s son Mohammed. This attempt failed, but not before Tuwaijri also tried to have Salman declared mentally unfit to rule.




Salman.


Foreign policy and financial crises

The letter, which is set in this context of internal House of Saud power struggles, claims problems began 10 years ago under Abdullah. It argues the need to bring back older members of the Saud dynasty by criticising “totally miscalculated” military decisions in Yemen, Syria and Iraq, claiming that these choices have "weakened the trust of our people and [incited] other peoples against us".

There have been a series of sharp changes in Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy since Salman took over from Abdullah. Under the late king, Riyadh was understood to view the Muslim Brotherhood and its various offshoots as being enemy number one in the region.

This policy led to Saudi advisors reportedly being in touch with Houthi militiamen in Yemen, who they viewed as a being a bulwark against the local Brotherhood affiliate al-Islah. Under Salman, however, countering Iranian influence is viewed as a key policy priority, and, as such, his defence minister son in March launched a regional coalition against the Houthis, a group viewed by Arab Gulf states as being backed by regional rival Iran.

The war in Yemen, whilst gaining some achievements in pushing the Houthis out of southern areas of the country, has not been a shining success for Saudi Arabia. Dozens of Saudi soldiers have been killed amid an ongoing air and ground campaign, and the Houthis remain in control of the capital Sanaa, while there are reports of skirmishes inside Saudi Arabia by invading Houthis.

Meanwhile in Syria and Iraq, Riyadh joined the US-led coalition to bomb the Islamic State (IS) group in September last year, under the leadership of Abdullah. Since then the kingdom has seen IS claim deadly attacks on the minority Shia community and the government has claimed to have arrested hundreds of the group's supporters across the country.

Also in Syria the Saudi leadership has actively supported rebel groups battling President Bashar al-Assad, in a civil war where more than 220,000 people have been killed.

As with Yemen, there is currently little to suggest that in Syria Saudi Arabia is close to achieving its military goals. Assad still retains control over swathes of the country, with the international community increasingly distracted by tackling IS, which appears to be no weaker than when the US-led coalition started bombing the group last year.

The royal letter penned by a grandson of Abdulaziz also pointed to financial challenges facing al-Saud, referencing a collapse in oil prices that over the past 12 months has seen the price of a barrel plummet from $120 to less than $50. The impact on the Gulf state, which relies on oil revenues for 90 percent of its income, has been stark – a Citibank analyst recently told MEE that this year the government would have a 20-percent gap between revenue and planned spending, leaving it with one of the largest fiscal deficits in the world.

This deficit has led to Riyadh plundering its sizable currency reserves to prop up spending. In the first half of 2015 the government spent $82bn of reserves, reducing savings to around $650bn, according to Saudi investment company Jadwa. With over 10 percent of currency reserves spent in six months the Citibank analyst warned that, without borrowing, the country’s savings could run dry within two or three years.

The scale of the country’s problems – both militarily and financially – led to the grandson of the country’s founder writing that change at the top may be necessary to protect al-Saud’s future as rulers.

“We will not be able to stop the draining of money, the political adolescence, and the military risks unless we change the methods of decision making, even if that implied changing the king himself,” the letter read.

A well-connected Saudi dissident who lives in London told MEE that the letter is evidence of the royal family recognising the seriousness of the crises ahead.

“There is an awareness in the mind of al-Saud that there is something going wrong and that it needs to be faced,” the dissident, who is in regular contact with royal family members, said on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals.

“This is a wakeup call to stop the collapse.”



Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef


Plotting a change at the top

The source said the royal family broadly falls into two camps when considering how to deal with their problems. On one side there are those who do not wish to raise any problems as they fear open disagreement may weaken themselves in the eyes of the public. On the other side there are royals who believe silence will lead to total collapse.

The letter suggested a solution for al-Saud to strengthen their position by returning power to older members of the family who have been side-lined under King Salman. The new ruler has favoured new, younger members of the family close to him – with Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef replacing the youngest of Abdulaziz’s sons Muqrin as crown prince, and his own son Mohammed becoming deputy crown prince.

“[We have neglected] the marginalisation of the elders and the carriers of experience, as well as the surrender of command to the new generations of foolish dreamers who are acting behind the façade of an incapable king,” the letter read.

“How could we accept the marginalisation of King Abdulaziz’s sons both in power and in the processes of policy making?”

Mohammed bin Salman has been roundly criticised for his role in leading the country’s troublesome war in Yemen. The London-based Saudi dissident said that the letter is part of an effort to side-line Mohammed, who is criticised in the text as being a “rotten thief,” and push forward a replacement king.

“The real story behind this letter is that it is preparation for [King Salman's brother] Ahmed bin Abdulaziz to be pushed towards power,” the source said.

Seventy-three-year-old Prince Ahmed is the youngest member of the powerful Sudairi brothers – an alliance of seven sons of Abdulaziz born to the late king’s favourite wife Hassa bin Ahmed al-Sudairi. He served as deputy interior minister for nearly 30 years from 1975.

In 2012 he was made interior minister, in a move widely viewed as priming him to be a future ruler. However, he was dismissed just five months later in favour of the incumbent Mohammed bin Nayef, who is also the serving crown prince. And in 2014, when Abdullah appointed his brother Muqrin as crown prince, Ahmed was seen as having missed out on the chance to ever be king.

Despite this, the London-based dissident said the prince is viewed favourably among his peers.

“Ahmed is the healthiest and most honest of the senior royals. He doesn’t drink. He’s not a womaniser. He’s the least corrupt," the source said.

“Everybody thought that he was the natural person to be appointed by Salman as crown prince. He is the real heir apparent in the minds of many people.”

The London-based dissident said that Ahmed is keen on the idea of being promoted but he is reluctant to make the move himself. The prince, while ambitious, is conscious of not appearing to be in conflict with his brother Salman and his son Mohammed.

“He wants others to push him forward for the throne,” the source said.

The grandson of Abdulaziz said in his letter that he will support royal family members being promoted “with meritocracy” by collecting signatures from princes to implement changes for the “common good”.

The letter also said that it is the responsibility of princes including Ahmed bin Abdulaziz “to collect the views and gather the ranks” of the royal family.

“They should isolate the incapable King Salman, the extravagant and vain Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, and the rotten thief Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has been devastating for the state, so that the greatest and most pious assume the control of the affairs of the state and of its people.”

“We also ask for a new king and a new crown prince to be invested and take over everyone and for the abolition of the peculiar office of the deputy crown prince.”

Another regional expert said it was highly likely family members will gather to discuss changes but expressed doubt Mohammed bin Salman will be side-lined in the near future.

“I would imagine the demand for an emergency meeting is inevitable – if it hasn’t already taken place,” said Christopher Davidson, author of After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies and reader in Middle East politics at Durham University.

“But the demand for removing the deputy crown prince seems unobtainable.”

The London-based Saudi source said that they had not been able to confirm whether the royal family had held an emergency meeting. However, they claimed to be “aware of discord and discussion about the letter”.




Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud

Mohammed bin Salman seeking a promotion

The source said that there is much speculation among al-Saud family members that once this year’s annual pilgrimage ends, which is expected to be on 26 September, the deputy crown prince will move to make himself heir to the throne.

“Some royal family members believe that once hajj is over Mohammed bin Salman will remove Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince – by orders of his father – and appoint himself,” the source said.

“They [the royal family members] are bracing themselves for this development because they see it as very dangerous. They think it will bring revolt and make it much more likely for action to be taken to push Ahmed [bin Abdulaziz] towards taking power.”

Mohammed bin Salman is increasingly being viewed as possessing much of the power behind the throne, especially amid unconfirmed rumours his 79-year-old father is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. The deputy crown prince recently accompanied the king on a trip to meet with US President Barack Obama where it is believed the 30-year-old played a key role in strategic discussions.

After the visit, an unnamed Arab official told the Washington Post that it is possible King Salman could alter the succession process to name his son as heir.

“Let’s face reality,” the official said. “He’s the son of the king. There’s a strong chance he will be the next king. The longer Salman survives, the larger the chance that MBS (Mohammed bin Salman) is next.”

The impression that Mohammed may be plotting a route to be Saudi Arabia’s next king likely explains the strong feeling among both the grandson of Abdulaziz and the London-based dissident that royal family members are urgently seeking an emergency meeting.

However, the Gulf Research Centre’s Koch played down talk that Mohammed is plotting a way to remove the current crown prince and promote himself to be first in line to the throne.

“One thing to remember is that the ruling family is large and anyone who wants to assert authority will need to be able to put together a broad consensus from within,” he said. “As such, suggestions, as currently circulating, that Mohammed bin Salman in preparing for a coup are quite fanciful if you ask me.”

A prominent Saudi journalist also poured scorn on the idea that a power struggle may be emerging in the country and questioned the authenticity of the letter calling for change at the top.

“I know a prince who is always exchanging with me documents and articles,” Jamal Khashoggi, General Manager of Al Arab television, told MEE. “This letter hasn’t circulated. I still have my doubts [about its authenticity].”

“The succession issue is settled for now in Saudi Arabia.”

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Summary & Commentary

1. The Saudis are going through major financial problems as well as political crises in Yemen and in Syria, which they have made their "own" crisis as they made it a goal on themselves to remove Assad's pro-Iranian regime.


2. Senior Saudi princes are very concerned about the situation and are mobilizing.


My opinion.

This Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz character should become the new "king". Salman is very unwell and basically semi-senile if not fully senile and has alzheimers. He was not even photographed in a recent visit to Washington DC.

This semi-senile character has the fate of the holy land of 1.5+ billion Muslims in his hands and believes the crown of Saudi Arabia is his personal property whom he can entrust to Crusty the clown, a.k.a "Baby Salman", his youngest son.



This "Baby Salman" is a clown who makes Crusty the Clown from the Simpsons look like an intellectual.

This moron and clown has started a war in Yemen thinking it was some sort of Rambo film where Saudi soldiers would go in, bomb the heck out of Yemenis before storming in and mopping down Yemeni fighters.



This is Yemen!

Even on this forum we have an argumentative, ferocious and wild Yemeni who loves fighting and conflict, so imagine a nation of 20 million + which consists amongst it (not all) similar wild individuals.

Yemen was the country which was Nasser's Vietnam.



Yemeni tribesman during the 20th century.


3. After half a year of bombing the Saudis have achieved very little and one UAE crown prince has been killed there, though official UAE propaganda is he had a "heart attack", though this same prince was just incidentally filmed in combat gear in Yemen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=37&v=KduRUJNT4yY

This UAE counterpart of Crusty....I mean "Baby Salman" was the crown prince of Abu Dhabi.



Crusty I mean "Baby Salman" has through his recklessness and adventurism caused the death of this prince.

However he is ruining the Saudi economy, making the Saudi army look like a bunch of fools in front of the entire world.

The Saud tribe need to remove this imbecile and moron as soon as possible, they should declare the following.


a: Declare Salman the current ruler, "sick" and ibn Nayef as acting regent.

b: Put this Ahmed character on the throne as he is older, thus more experienced, cautious and "wiser" than either Crusty the clown of Ibn Nayef, who is another well-known goon and moron.

c: They should start making sure that power in Saudi cannot be monopolized ever again by one single man who could even be semi-senile and has power over the sacred places of 1 billion + Muslims.

Power needs to be spread out and institutions - not people - need to be strengthened.

Saudi Arabia also needs to ditch receiving "advice" from the reckless Pakistan military who were humiliated in 1971 and lost half of their country, and start sending a lot of their officer corps for training in Turkey.

Crusty the Clown and the Pakistan army are both clowns who are ruining Saudi Arabia and thus harming the interests of 1.5 billion Muslims.



Pakistan army, an army of clowns and losers who lost half of their country by alienating a population (east Pakistanis) that were loyal to the concept of Pakistan, by starting a frenized killing spree.

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A map showing the parts of Saudi Arabia allegedly captured by Yemeni forces.

Yemeni forces are apparently very close to the Saudi city of Najran.

The full map below.







Najran is a city of 0.3 million, if it was to fall in to Yemeni (Saleh + Houthi alliance) hands or even just be destroyed with 0.3 million Saudis fleeing, it would be a major embarassment for the richest country in the Arab world, Saudi which spent $80 billion on defence.

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Saudi royal calls for regime change in Riyadh

Plea by grandson of state’s founder comes as falling oil prices, war in Yemen and loss of faith in authority buffet leadership of King Salman




Saudi Arabia’s King Salman. One Saudi royal claims that the king’s son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, ‘is ruling the country’.
Hugh Miles in Cairo
Monday 28 September 2015 16.14 BST Last modified on Tuesday 29 September 2015 10.30 BST

A senior Saudi prince has launched an unprecedented call for change in the country’s leadership, as it faces its biggest challenge in years in the form of war, plummeting oil prices and criticism of its management of Mecca, scene of last week’s hajj tragedy.

The prince, one of the grandsons of the state’s founder, Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, has told the Guardian that there is disquiet among the royal family – and among the wider public – at the leadership of King Salman, who acceded the throne in January.

The prince, who is not named for security reasons, wrote two letters earlier this month calling for the king to be removed.

“The king is not in a stable condition and in reality the son of the king [Mohammed bin Salman] is ruling the kingdom,” the prince said. “So four or possibly five of my uncles will meet soon to discuss the letters. They are making a plan with a lot of nephews and that will open the door. A lot of the second generation is very anxious.”

“The public are also pushing this very hard, all kinds of people, tribal leaders,” the prince added. “They say you have to do this or the country will go to disaster.”





A clutch of factors are buffeting King Salman, his crown prince, Mohammed bin Nayef, and the deputy crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.



A double tragedy in Mecca – the collapse of a crane that killed more than 100, followed by a stampede last week that killed 700 – has raised questions not just about social issues, but also about royal stewardship of the holiest site in Islam.

As usual, the Saudi authorities have consistently shrugged off any suggestion that a senior member of the government may be responsible for anything that has gone wrong.

Local people, however, have made clear on social media and elsewhere that they no longer believe such claims.

“The people inside [the kingdom] know what’s going on but they can’t say. The problem is the corruption in using the resources of the country for building things in the right form,” said an activist who lives in Mecca but did not want to be named for fear of repercussions.

“Unfortunately the government points the finger against the lower levels, saying for example: ‘Where are the ambulances? Where are the healthcare workers?’ They try to escape the real reason of such disaster,” he added.


Saudi religious and political legitimacy is predicated on their claim that they manage the holy sites properly and make them safely accessible for all Muslims. Since there are no monarchies in Islam and Saudi Arabia itself is not mentioned in the Qur’an, legitimacy is a fundamental issue for the Saudis and the Hajj disasters have been extremely damaging.



But just as urgent is oil, the price of which has dropped more than 50% in the past year. On Monday, the Financial Times reported that Saudi Arabia has withdrawn as much as $70bn (£46bn) from overseas investment funds to shore up its fiscal position in the face of tumbling oil prices

According to Alastair Newton, director of Alavan Business Advisory, Saudi Arabia’s published budget this year was based on oil trading at about $90 a barrel. But because of costly ad hoc items such as royal largesse after King Salman’s succession, the war in Yemen, and domestic security against the Isis threat, the fiscal position is only in balance at about $110.

With oil now trading below $50, fiscal weakness is starting to tell. The Saudi benchmark Tadawul All Share index has fallen by more than 30% in the past 12 months.

“They have enough reserves to sustain this situation for at least one year although it is very costly for them,” said Khairallah Khairallah, a former managing editor of the Saudi-owned al-Hayat newspaper.

The International Monetary Fund is already predicting Saudi Arabia’s budget deficit to exceed $107bn this year. Yet the budget announced for next year has marginally increased.



Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

“The king is in charge of oil policy in the kingdom together with his son Mohammed bin Salman. Mohammed bin Salman is also responsible for [state oil firm] Aramco. The crown prince [Mohammed bin Nayef] is mainly focused on security. These are the main players in Saudi Arabia. They divide the responsibility,” said Khairallah Khairallah.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman is a new arrival to the Saudi senior leadership team but has already become one of the most controversial.

Although still very young by Saudi standards – officially 35 but rumoured to be much younger – he holds a multitude of posts including minister of defence and chair of the Council for Economic and Development Affairs, which is the country’s main economic policymaking committee.

This makes him responsible for many of Saudi Arabia’s problems, above all the war in neighbouring Yemen, where rebel Houthis have come under attack from Saudi aircraft and ground forces.

Many Saudis are sickened by the sight of the Arab world’s richest country pummelling its poorest, and as the cost in lives and treasure grows, criticism is mounting that Prince Mohammed bin Salman– whose unofficial nickname is “Reckless” – rushed in without a proper military strategy or an exit plan.




Smoke billows upward after airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition on Houthi rebels in Sana’a, Yemen.


“This is a war against the Yemeni nation and against Yemen becoming independent,” said Sgt Maj Dakheel bin Naser Al Qahtani, a former head of air force operations at King Abdulaziz airbase, Dhahran, who defected from the Saudi armed forces last year.

“It has no legitimate political foundation and it is not what the people want,” he said. “Ninety per cent of people in Saudi Arabia don’t want this to happen, exactly the opposite of what the media shows.

“It has come about due to the absence of a national citizens’ establishment in Saudi Arabia and because Al Saud have put their own interests ahead of the national interest.”


The letters in Arabic calling for the overthrow of the king have been read more than 2m times. The letters call on the 13 surviving sons of Ibn Saud – specifically the princes Talal, Turki and Ahmed bin Abdulaziz – to unite and remove the leadership in a palace coup, before choosing a new government from within the royal family.


“Allow the oldest and most capable to take over the affairs of the state, let the new king and crown prince take allegiance from all, and cancel the strange, new rank of second deputy premier,” states the first letter.

“We are calling for the sons of Ibn Saud from the oldest Bandar, to the youngest, Muqrin, to make an urgent meeting with the senior family members to investigate the situation and find out what can be done to save the country, to make changes in the important ranks, to bring in expertise from the ruling family whatever generation they are from.”

The letters are unlike anything that has happened since King Faisal deposed King Saud in a palace coup in 1964.

The prince behind the letters claims to have received widespread support from both within the royal family and society at large. But only one other senior royal has so far publicly endorsed the letter, which may be unsurprising given the Saudis’ brutal history of punishing political opponents.

Like many modern Arab countries Saudi Arabia is a 20th-century construction. Since 1932, when Saudi Arabia was founded, the royal family has kept the country together masterfully. But as the economic and political situation in and around Saudi Arabia deteriorates, and royal family infighting intensifies, the possibility of a profound change is growing more likely.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/28/saudi-royal-calls-regime-change-letters-leadership-king-salman

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The letters in Arabic calling for the overthrow of the king have been read more than 2m times.

Everyone (with any level of education or status) in Saudi Arabia has read them.

It's out in the open now.

The ruling Saud tribe's major "princes" want Salman out.

Salman is a senile or quasi senile man with Alzheimers who has given too much power over the land which has the holy sites of 1.6 billion Muslims to an inexperienced clown, Crusty ibn Salman.



Clown Prince, "Baby Salman".


1. The Saudis are in a long term very precarious position as oil is running out as explained by this excellent article which I will post in full later:

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/collapse-saudi-arabia-inevitable-1895380679

However on top of their structurally long term weak position they rushed in to a needless and crazy war against ferocious and wild Yemenis.



2. Salman needs to be booted out and one of his brothers needs to take over the realms of power and kick Crusty i.e. "baby Salman" out of power for good.


3. Major Sunni Muslim countries should start working together undercover on military operations independent of the Saudis whereby the protect the Hejaz (region where Mecca and Medina are located) if Saudi starts to collapse, which probably won't happen now but as Iraq, Syria, Libya have shown could happen in the future.

These states should organize their militaries and intelligence agencies to work on such a plan:

- Turkey
- Egypt
- Bangladesh
- Indonesia


The key here is Egypt.

Egypt is the closest state to Saudi out of the four separated only by a small strip of water.

It is a fellow Arab state.

It should take the lead in rescuing the Hejaz if anything should happen there and then the subsequent administration of the province.



Egyptian soldier.




So in 10 years time if Saudi Arabia were to collapse there are already detailed military plans for major Muslim states to stabilize the situation and for Egypt in conjunction with Jordan to administer the Hejaz temporarily.

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Reports that the head of the Saud tribe, Salman bin Saud ("King" of Saudi) is hospitalized.

Apparently his no.2 the notorious and highly controversial Saudi regime strongman, Ibn Nayef is acting as current leader.



The notorious Saudi strong man and jailor in chief, Ibn Nayef.

It seems like Salman will be out of the picture soon and the Saud tribe may make Ibn Nayef their head.

However the questions are:


Will Ibn Nayef be prevented from becoming king and power given to one of Salman's brothers e.g. Ahmed?


Personally this is what I hope happens. Ibn Nayef is a highly controversial character and associated with tyranny and repression. He is also not as old thus not as mature as his uncles.

What will happen to Crusty the clown a.k.a. "Baby Salman"?

Hopefully this moron will be booted from the circles of power as he has brought ruin to Saudi Arabia with an insane war against Yemen.



Will the Saudis stop their war in Yemen?

Hopefully if Ahmed does assume power he will announce a change of policy in Yemen, which he can to avoid embarassment ascribe to a review of circumstances and a changing situation or semi-formally attribute to his predecessor Salman and of course ibn Nayef and Crusty the Clown a.k.a "Baby Salman".



Then the Saudis can help organize a Yemeni government of unity lead jointly by Hadi and Abdullah Saleh with space for the Houthis as well.

The more the Saudis alienate the Houthis the more they will drive them in to the hands of Iran. The more they charm them with money, support and aid the more the Houthis will want to work with the Saudis or they themselves will become split amongst themselves.



Ahmed ibn Abdul Aziz, hopefully the man to replace Salman and prevent the notorious and repressive jailor, thug and Saudi strong man ibn Nayef from grabbing power.

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Yemeni tribesmen destroy American-made Saudi tank inside Saudi Arabia's Jizan province.









Yemeni tribesmen killing Saudi forces and destroying American made Saudi equipment in Jizan and Najran provinces.



American-made Saudi junk destroyed by Yemeni tribesmen.







Saudi rifles captured by Yemeni forces.



Yemeni fighter inside the Najran province occupied by Saudi Arabia.




American-made Abrams tank destroyed by Yemeni fighters inside Saudi Arabian occupied Najran province.



American-made Saudi equipment destroyed by Yemeni fighters inside Saudi-occupied Asir province.





Yemeni fighters controlling parts of Saudi Arabia's south.

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IMF predicts Saudi Arabia will become bankrupt shortly


INWARD INVESTMENT | MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA By Elizabeth MatsangouTuesday, October 27th,

Given spending sprees and persistently low oil prices, the IMF argues that Saudi Arabia is heading for bankruptcy by 2020

The IMF has big concerns about the future of the Kingdom's economy, and predicts it will become bankrupt in five years time


Given spending sprees and persistently low oil prices, the IMF argues that Saudi Arabia is heading for bankruptcy by 2020

A new report published in October by the IMF predicts that within five years, Saudi Arabia will have used all of its cash reserves, and so will become bankrupt. The annual Regional Economic Outlook takes an in depth look of the economic vitality of MENAP countries, including the Kingdom. In this latest edition, the IMF explains that during the ongoing period of low oil prices, exporting countries, including Saudi Arabia, are not “saving enough of their hydrocarbon wealth for intergenerational purposes”.

[T]he study does not allude to the measures that are currently being taken by the government to diversify the economy

According to the analysis, Saudi Arabia is due to experience a budget deficit of 21.6 percent this year, and a further 19.4 percent reduction in overall fiscal balance during 2016. Moreover, foreign reserves held by the Saudi Arabian central bank (Sama), have declined by around $73bn since the onset of the oil price slump last year.

Losses are attributed to the ongoing conflict in Yemen, which has led Saudi Arabia to take the number three spot in terms of global military spending. This year has also seen the government’s spending spree in terms of infrastructure development, as well as $32bn to celebrate the coronation of the new king, Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. However, it is important to note that a large majority of the reduction in foreign reserves is actually a result of huge withdrawals from Sama, which many believe is part of a strategy to reinvest capital in less risky products and ventures.

Of course, statistics give little room for debate; mounting government deficit coupled with a startling reduction in foreign reserves indicates a tumultuous time ahead for the Saudi Arabian economy. That being said, the study does not allude to the measures that are currently being taken by the government to diversify the economy. At present, 90 percent of it is reliant on oil exports, yet there are other promising industries that are beginning to emerge, such as real estate development, healthcare and plastic manufacturing. Furthermore, the government’s decision to open up its stock market to the international community earlier this year is another indication of a new approach that is now being taken by the Saudi regime.

The continued slump in oil prices is also unlikely to persist, at least, not at its current levels, meaning that it is not all doom and gloom ahead for Saudi Arabia, as the IMF’s recent report maintains.

https://www.worldfinance.com/inward-investment/imf-predicts-saudi-arabia-will-become-bankrupt-shortly

- Crusty the Clown a.k.a "Baby Salman" has now kept Saudi Arabia bombing the poorest country in the Arab world for almost 8 months now that's under 3/4 of a year.

- If "Baby Salman's" Yemen adventure continues for another few more years as the war in Syria has then Saudi Arabia will become bankrupt according to the IMF.


- However even now Saudi Arabia is weaker e.g. the regime is not paying for some Saudi students to study abroad due to financing the murder of Yemeni women and children.

So even if "Baby Salman" and his partner in crime notorious thug and Saudi jailor-in-chief, Ibn Nayef, pull Saudi out of the Yemen war (which they started) after another year and Saudi does not become bankrupt it will be financially much weaker.

Saudi will be becoming financially weaker, Iran will be becoming financially stronger.

- With the possible removal of sanctions and the likely victory of Assad in Syria due to Russian air force and Iranian support, the pro-Iran axis in the middle east will be much stronger including Iran, Iraq, Syria and Hezbullah.

- Saudi is becoming weaker and the UAE has already decided to get out of the Yemen war and removed its troops with the excuse of "troop rotation".

- If Crusty the Clown and his side-kick, jailor-in-chief, Ibn Nayef are not stopped then the Saud tribe face the prospect of having their country severely weakened or destroyed, losing power and becoming seen in history as murderers, thieves, torturers and oppressors and to be spoken about in the same vein as the following:

- Musaylamah al-Kaddhab (Musaylamah the Liar) a Najdi who is despised by Muslims, a false prophet.

- Dhu'l Khuwaisarah, the predecessor of the Khawarij, another Najdi.

- Banu Nadir, Banu Quradidha and Banu Qanuyqa, the Jewish tribes of the Hejaz who rejected holy prophet Muhammad صلی اللہ علیہ وسلم



Can this man save Saudi Arabia and the Saud tribe in particular?





Prince Ahmed, the uncle of Crusty the clown a.k.a "Baby Salman" and his assistant, Ibn Nayef.


Can Prince Ahmed save Saudi Arabia?


The senior Saudi princes should declare Salman as severely sick and incapable of running the country, threaten collectively as a tribe to disown Crusty the Clown and super-jailor Ibn Nayef.

They should then put Prince Ahmed as ruler or regent.

1. Announce a termination of the Yemen war and indirectly blame it on the previous regime i.e. the Papa Salman, Baby Salman and Super-jailor three stooges.



Three stooges, original American version.



Three stooges, Saudi version.



2. Try to deal in a conciliatory manner with Iran. If even super power America with 800 bases in 7 continents cannot take on Iran then what can Saudi which cannot even defeat Yemeni tribesmen do?

If the Saudis cannot beat the Houthis and are getting humiliated and whipped by them, so much that even the mercenary money-loving Pakistan army refuses to fight and the UAE pulls out, what can Saudi do against much more powerful Iran?


3. Accept Assad as ruler in Syria, make peace with Iran.

4. Make Shias loyal to Saudi (not that they aren't already, Arab Shias on a personal and social level have nothing in common with racist and arrogant Persians and have far more in common with fellow Sunni Arabs) by giving them senior positions.

5. Make peace with the "Muslim" (Mufsid) Brotherhood in the middle east.

6. Declare a semi-constitutional monarchy in the same style as Morocco and Jordan.

Gradually devolve power.


7. Stop provoking large Muslim nations such as Indonesia, Bangladesh, Iran, Egypt by supporting and sponsoring terrorism and radicals e.g. Jamaat e Islami in Bangladesh, Wahabis etc.

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Yemeni forces 180 km inside "Saudi" territory and the Saudi regime searching for a solution to this problem. (rough translation of above)

So despite spending around $80 billion on mainly American-made military junk, the Saudis can't stop Yemeni tribesmen from capturing parts of southern "Saudi".




- Claims of 4th Saudi warship destroyed off the Yemeni coast.





REPORTS THAT THE UAE IS FLEEING FROM YEMEN!!

Apparently the Emiratis are running away and escaping from the Yemen quagmire, but under the pretext of "troop rotation".

lolz

The Saudis have also hired Colombian mercenaries to kill Arab Muslims from Yemen for money.




Which Colombians will the Saudis hire next to kill Muslims from Yemen?



ex-Colombian World cup star, Carlos Valderrama?



Rene Higuita, the man famous for his "scorpion kick"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRj3dKKp9tI

Will the Saudis try to bribe Shakira to fight for them?



Young Shakira in her actual black hair, Shakira is an Arabic name and the "Colombian" singer is half-Arab but disliked by many Colombians who see her as a wannabe-Spaniard and aligning more with Spanish culture.

Hundreds of Colombian mercenaries to fight for Saudi-led coalition in Yemen
#YemenCrisis

Reports suggest 100 former army soldiers are already in Yemen and set to take up 'frontline positions' in Aden, with more expected to follow


Rori Donaghy
Tuesday 27 October 2015 14:27 UTC
Last update:
Monday 2 November 2015 14:22 UTC


The Saudi-led coalition has contracted hundreds of former Colombian soldiers to fight in Yemen as part of their battle to push back Houthi rebel fighters, according to reports in South America.

The pan-Latin American channel TeleSUR reported on Monday that up to 800 Colombians will “take up frontline positions” in the southern port city of Aden, which is currently the scene of a power battle between coalition forces and rival militant factions separately linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Islamic State (IS) group.

Colombian daily El Tiempo reported that around 100 Colombians had arrived in Yemen in early October, with more soldiers due to follow.

- See more at: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/hu....oDyv4csl.dpuf

[Bengal_Tiger]

Saudi Arabia is outsourcing Yemen’s war amid growing internal opposition

"An increase of economic ties and cooperation has been exchanged for ground soldiers"

Olga Aymerich discusses how growing internal opposition has caused the Saudi leadership to outsource ground soldiers in Yemen. Sudan, Mauritania, and Senegal have sent troops in exchange for increasing economic ties and cooperation with the kingdom.

Saudi Arabia’s internal opposition against current ruler King Salman and especially against his appointed Deputy Crown Price and Defense Minister son Mohammed bin Salman has grown to being on the verge of a power reshuffle that could oust the King.

Part of the disdain against the current ruler and his son derives from the eight-month military campaign led by the Kingdom in neighboring Yemen. Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been in the lead of the military campaign, which started only two months after his appointment as Defense Minister. But what was supposed to be a short, clear-cut intervention to heap praise on the newly-appointed 29-year-old prince and smooth his way to the crown, has become a painfully long campaign which has already killed more than 2,300 civilians and wounded 4,000 according to OHCHR.

Under these circumstances, each and every Saudi casualty in Yemen has become poison dart for the current Saudi leaders and their survival in power. Furthermore, Saudi internal opposition has reached its peak at the same time as the Saudi-led military campaign is expected to increase the ground battle, before potential peace talks take place.

The king and his son know that to keep themselves in power they cannot afford a higher toll of Saudi casualties in the field. They can neither afford losing grip in Yemen since this would highly undermine Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s image as a capable leader of the kingdom’s crown. Thus, Saudi Arabia has adopted a new strategy which is all about ietting the others' blood run. An increase of economic ties and cooperation has been exchanged for ground soldiers from the poorest members of the coalition to fight the most vulnerable positions in Yemen.

On October 17th, Sudan sent 300 soldiers to the southern city of Aden and 450 additional ones on October 19th as a part of an agreed 10,000 soldiers force, from which 16 were reportedly killed and 12 injured in two different attacks only six days after deployment. Sudan is under high economic pressure since South Sudan’s independence in 2011 – South Sudan has an estimated 75% of the total oil reserves of the former united Sudan. Thus, it has shifted its regional alliances from long-term Iranian ally to the oil-rich Gulf in search of economic support.


"Every single Saudi casualty in Yemen has become poison dart for the current Saudi leader"
One day before the arrival of the Sudanese troops in Yemen, on October 16th, Mauritania agreed to deploy 500 troops to Yemen, the week after Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Al-Ayesh’s visit to Mauritania. The visit of the Saudi minister was followed by a letter from Egyptian President Sisi to boost cooperation between the two countries, as well as by a visit by UAE Foreign Minister Al Nahyan. Both UAE and Egypt are in the center of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

2,100 Senegalese troops were also sent to help secure an evacuated area in the Saudi Arabian border with Yemen. This action came shortly after Saudi Arabia announced it would invest in Senegal’s development program. Senegal is the only non-Arab member of the Saudi-led coalition.

The latest Saudi move was hiring 800 ex-military Colombian soldiers, mostly retired from the elite troops, offering significantly higher salaries than in Colombia and a 1,000 USD weekly bonus while in the field, among other benefits.

Saudi Arabia’s monarch cannot afford to further ignite an already boiling internal opposition, yet he cannot either afford losing face in Yemen if he wants to save his son options as a future successor to the crown. Sending other coalition members’ troops as cannon fodder in exchange for increased economic ties seems to be the strategy the rulers of the kingdom have put in place to try to save their position. Immorality aside, this is also having an impact in the countries sending troops as citizens have questioned their leaders’ move. Meanwhile the Yemen conflict continues unstopped.

http://www.yourmiddleeast.com/opinion/saudi-arabia-is-outsourcing-yemens-war-amid-growing-internal-opposition_36507

1. These South American, Sudanese and other mercenaries being paid by the Saudis to fight in Yemen are because the Pakistan option, mercenaries of first choice, is not available.




2. Colombian mercenaries are no match for hardened Yemeni tribesmen who are used to tribal feuds, death, killing and energized by a militant Shia ideology fighting in their country.

The Saudis have lost the war. The Yemenis have kicked the UAE out, a humiliation for the super-rich UAE losing to "inferior" and poverty-stricken Yemenis.

The Saud tribe need to remove Papa Salman and Baby Salman from power as well as the regime heavy and strongman, ibn Nayef, and put in Prince Ahmed in power.

They need to start removing princes from jobs, positions they cannot carry out properly and put in technocrats and start a gradual devolution to a semi-constitutional monarchy as per Jordan, Morocco otherwise in a couple of years the name "Al-Saud" will be a black word in Arabia just as their fellow Najdis:

- Musaylama
- Dhu'l Qhuwaisarah
- Khawaarij
- Wahabis

all are reviled in the Muslim world and the Al-Saud will become a hated name like them if they don't change their ways.



Yemeni fighters take control of Saudi town in Asir province, Rabou'ah.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Yet because of Mohammed bin Salman’s unfettered access to his father’s advisers and his role in leading the war in Yemen, palace insiders say the young prince has assumed greater responsibility and at times has served as “de facto head of state.”

“All final decisions pass first through Prince Mohammed bin Salman,” one royal court official said.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2015/1110/Saudi-succession-Rival-princes-jockey-as-global-oil-slump-hits-home

It looks like Papa Salman is planning to make Baby Salman the new "King", (head of the Saud tribe).

But "Baby Salman", ibn Salman, is a complete moron and has taken Saudi Arabia to a catastrophic situation.

- Humiliation and expulsion of Saudi ally UAE from Yemen, with the UAE being defeated by Yemeni tribesmen.

- Failure to capture Aden let alone Sana'a and no functioning government for Hadi.

- Destroying Saudi Arabia's finances for this meaningless and pathetic war, a war just started so Papa Salman could show off baby Salman as a war hero and thus bypass the line of succession.

- Getting parts of southern "Saudi Arabia" (formerly part of Yemen and still claimed by some Yemenis) to be re-conquered by Yemeni tribesmen.

- Getting Saudi Arabia to be humiliated in front of the entire world that despite spending $80 billion they cannot defeat the poorest country in the Arab world after 8 months.


The senior Saudi princes need to remove this father and son double act and install prince Ahmed as the new "King" and behind the scenes have collective decision making rather than a dictatorship where one man can decide everything e.g. now where baby Salman a.k.a Crusty the Clown decides everything.



Yemeni tribesmen capture Ta'iz and a warehouse full of Saudi ammunition. Saudi Arabia's "army" is being humiliated in Yemen.



Mohammed Omar al Anzi who commited suicide because he could not live with murdering Yemeni civilians.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Claims on Twitter of Yemeni forces reaching the "Saudi" city of Najran:

NOT CONFIRMED



Bare-footed Yemeni fighter as his comrades capture a Saudi post.





Houthi fighter with the Houthi flag and chewing Qat (stimulant) as they capture the Saudi military Nuhuqah near Najran city.



The Saudis and their multi-national force of mercenaries are unable to stop the Houthis from these operations.



Saudi Arabia, the richest country in the Arab world has been bombing the poorest country in the Arab world Yemen for more than 8 months with thousands of civilians including children being killed.

Algeria, the largest country in the Arab world (territorially) has called for a ceasefire, negotiations and peace in Yemen, Saudi Arabia refuses to listen to Algeria.

Video on Twitter of aftermath of Houthi attack on Saudi city of Najran.

https://twitter.com/arbign/status/670667776214867969

Transliteration of the Arabic:

Najran Al Aan (Najran now)

Mashad li ba'd athar al qasf bi shaar'i al jaysh (A view of some of the ruins of an attack in the city, "al jaysh" = army)

Wa'l 'alaam gha'ib 'an al wa'ee (and the world is absent from the reality).



Algeria's foreign minister.

The Saudis have refused to heed the wise counsel of Algeria urging Arab brotherhood, Arab reconciliation, Arab unity and Arab peace as Arabs kill Arabs in Yemen and Saudi.



Ibn Salman, losing the war in Yemen. Many of the senior Saudi princes hate him and if this humiliation continues, the Saudi royals may kick him and his patron, Salman out of power.

[Bengal_Tiger]

Yemeni Army Ready to Invade Jizan, Najran Saudi Cities: Officer to Al-Manar



BY NEWS DESK ON DECEMBER 3, 2015 MIDDLE EAST


The Yemeni army spokesman General Sharaf Loqman told Al-Manar website that the preliminary operations have ended and that the strategic escalation stage has started.

“We are ready to escalate operations, and the leadership will settle all the details,” the Yemeni officer said.

“The Yemeni army and popular committees have surrounded the two Saudi cities of Jizan and Najran and the political leadership will take the decision of invading them,” he added.

Luqman noted that the Yemeni army and popular committees are advancing in the various provinces and confronting the Saudi-led terrorists, adding that all the attempts to reach local ceasefire agreements are rejected because the aim is to expel all the terrorists.

General Luqman pointed out that the Yemeni army and popular committees withdrew from the south to let the locals defend their cities.

“However, Qaeda and ISIL terrorists have controlled the area, especially in Aden and Hadramout,” he concluded.

http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/yemeni-army-ready-to-invade-jizan-najran-saudi-cities-officer-to-al-manar/

1. There is total silence in the western media about Yemen.

Most people in the world are brainwashed by the western media and their criteria to determine how important an event/issue is, is defined by the western media.




Saudi tanks destroyed in Jizan by Yemeni fighters, this is inside Saudi Arabia.





Yemenis hit Saudi army positions in Fawaz apparently on the outskirts of the city of Najran.

https://twitter.com/mujtahidd/status/672528555713130496

نتائج حرب اليمن في الجيش السعودي
2000 قتيل
4850 جريح
تدميرأوتعطيل 450 دبابة ومدرعة
4 أباتشي
طائرة ف-15
تدمير 3 زوارق واصابة 2
200 مليارريال

Translation:

Saudi losses in the Yemen war:
2000 soldiers killed
4850 soldiers injured
450 armored fighting vehicles (including tanks) destroyed
4 attack helicopters destroyed
1 fighter jet destroyed
3 warships destroyed and 2 damaged
200 billion Saudi riyals spent

Mujtahid has 1.4 million followers on his twitter account and is believed to be either a Saudi prince, or a senior opposition figure close to certain Saudi royals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GCpMI6X8wE

Yemeni flag raised inside "Saudi" territory, the small town of Rabuah in the "Saudi" province of Asir. Asir was traditionally part of Yemen until annexed by Saudi Arabia a few decades ago.