West Asia News and Discussions (YEMEN, gulf)

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 27 Mar 2016 06:32

Vijay Prashad ‏@vijayprashad 9m9 minutes ago
al-Qaeda uses a SAM to bring down an Emirati jet fighter in Yemen.

Gates of hell have opened wider.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 27 Mar 2016 06:37

Great news, but... Is this Dunia big enuf 4 2 ppl named Vijay Prashad?

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 27 Mar 2016 06:44

UlanBatori wrote:Great news, but... Is this Dunia big enuf 4 2 ppl named Vijay Prashad?

They say Keep the enemy closer.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 27 Mar 2016 06:51

I mean, isn't this the genius who was recently writing about the demise of the nation-state, 2 b replaced with happy commie paradises such as West Bengal? Is he spokesrat 4 Al Qaeda now?

I think anyone who shoots at US-backed mass-murderers in Yemen is "Al Qaeda in The Arabian Peninsula" per SDOTUS, so we can discount that moniker. So... someone is giving SAMs to the Yemenis. Suddenly those UAE figher-jock glamor jobs look at bit less glamorous. They'll have to outsource to Paki pilots again if there's death involved.

member_23370 · Post by **member_23370** » 27 Mar 2016 08:45

Why is doval meeting that fat pig?? Should we be trying to wipe him and his ilk out of existence along with their filthy country.

Shanu · Post by **Shanu** » 27 Mar 2016 10:13

Well just because the Shias and Sunnis are taking a tea break does not mean that the run scoring will be stopped.

IS just blew up at least 26 pious 'Islamic NATO' coalition troops and contractors in Aden's coalition bases.

Three suicide bombers have struck security checkpoints in the southern Yemeni city of Aden, killing at least 26 people.

Dozens of people were also wounded in the Friday attacks, which coincided with the first anniversary of the start of civil war in Yemen and were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) militant group.

In one of the blasts, an ambulance laden with explosives was detonated as it arrived at a military checkpoint in the Buraiqa area in north-western Aden, killing around 14 soldiers and civilians.

The other two bombs hit checkpoints on the road to a base used by the Saudi-led military coalition that is fighting in Yemen.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-26/s ... en/7277452

Gyan · Post by **Gyan** » 27 Mar 2016 12:49

Yemen is two way fight or three way fight? Is ISIS with Saudi or against them in Yemen?

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 27 Mar 2016 15:51

When Saudis bomb hospitals, they are Yemeni hospitals. When the US bombs someone, they are Al-Qaeda-In-The-Arabian-Penisula, or ISIS. Since ISIS is NATO-Saudi and AQITAP is Saudi-NATO, there is a huge difference between these. Hope that's clear as mud 2 u 2.

But I still wonder where they got the SAM. Some sources come to mind.

deejay · Post by **deejay** » 27 Mar 2016 15:56

^^^ Somebody in Syria found a MANPAD. Then somebody in Yemen found SAMs. Sounds logical to me. Idiots don't know where to stop.

uddu · Post by **uddu** » 27 Mar 2016 17:32

Doval meeting could be to get the person whom they jailed and also the the priest kidnapped by ISIS. Hope he told him that Indians must not be mistreated by Saudi.

chanakyaa · Post by **chanakyaa** » 28 Mar 2016 06:20

The title of the interview "What is Saudi Arabia's endgame in Yemen and Syria?" could very well be rewritten as "Could Yemen and Syria be an endgame for Saudi Arabia?".

In this week’s wide-ranging Headliner interview, Mehdi Hasan speaks to Abdallah al-Mouallimi, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the UN, about the country’s involvement in Yemen and Syria, ISIL and the kingdom’s human rights record.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 29 Mar 2016 02:11

ISIS 'crucifies Catholic priest on Good Friday' after kidnapping him from old people's home where four nuns were shot dead. Father Tom Uzhunnalil was kidnapped by ISIS gunmen in Yemen

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z44Ej8wVKH

The Indian Catholic priest kidnapped by ISIS-linked terrorists in Yemen earlier this month was crucified on Good Friday, it has been claimed.Father Thomas Uzhunnalil, 56, was taken by Islamist gunmen, reportedly linked to ISIS, who attacked an old people's home in Aden, southern Yemen, killing at least 15 people, on March 4.The terrorists reportedly carried out the heinous murder on Good Friday, after threatening to do so earlier in the week, according to the Archbishop of ViennaThe cardinal based his statements on news published on Arabic language web sites. The validity of this information has, however, not been confirmed,' said Arhdiocese Vienna's head of media relations, Michael Prüller.

member_23370 · Post by **member_23370** » 29 Mar 2016 02:59

why did these jokers not come with the rest of the Indians when Indian Navy was painstakingly rescuing our citizens?

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 29 Mar 2016 03:12

Man what is it with these people; children blown to bits and a man crucified!

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 29 Mar 2016 13:44

I have a Xtian colleague from Chennai and topic of this Priest crucified came up, he said ''so what even in India Graham Stain was killed by Hindu extremists'' I was horrified to hear that remark!

IndraD · Post by **IndraD** » 29 Mar 2016 13:50

Egypt domestic airline hijacked

A man reportedly strapped with explosives has hijacked a passenger plane.

EgyptAir flight MSR181 was on an internal flight when it was hijacked by an Egyptian national named as Ibrahim Samaha.

The plane was diverted the Larnaca Airport in Cyprus, where most of the 81 passengers were allowed to disembark.

The hijacker kept the crew and four foreign passengers on board - though five people wearing crew uniforms have since been seen leaving the plane.

Cypriot president Nicos Anastasiades said the incident was not terror related.

He added: "We are doing our utmost in order for everyone to be released and safe and to give an end to this unprecedented incident."

An unnamed government official said the hijacker had asked to see his estranged wife in Cyprus and that she lived in the village of Oroklini not far from the airport.

Witnesses told state TV they saw him throw a letter on to the tarmac and demand it be delivered to the woman.

Samaha is reported to be a 27-year-old professor of veterinary medicine.
http://news.sky.com/story/1668659/hijac ... eld-on-jet

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 29 Mar 2016 20:16

Then what is your xtian colleague doing in India. He should move to the Middle East. Same danger more money.

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 29 Mar 2016 20:40

Actually, there is no law that says only majority has responsibility to secularism and minority can indulge in guilt flipping, within and outside friendship circle. So that behavior is not legit.

Logically speaking, ISIL is more like Spanish barbarians who tortured population in Goa and people actually ran into jungles to save themselves from barbarians. Education is not about selective history and then selective laws.

narmad · Post by **narmad** » 29 Mar 2016 20:48

vishvak wrote:Actually, there is no law that says only majority has responsibility to secularism and minority can indulge in guilt flipping, within and outside friendship circle. So that behavior is not legit.

Logically speaking, ISIL is more like Spanish barbarians who tortured population in Goa and people actually ran into jungles to save themselves from barbarians. Education is not about selective history and then selective laws.

Portuguese : Goa Inquisition

Pouring Hot tar etc was common according to my older uncles

http://vgweb.org/unethicalconversion/GoaInquisition.htm
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/74926

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 29 Mar 2016 21:14

Please bear in mind the conditions of Christian Europe at the time: savagery, mindless killings of Jews, Romany, continuous internecine warfare, beheadings of Protestants in Catholic territories and vice versa, witch burnings, killings of free-thinkers, flaying alive of heretics, application of heated metal masks to the faces of 'enemies of the church'.

Hindus got off lightly at the hands of these barbarians.

member_23370 · Post by **member_23370** » 29 Mar 2016 21:37

No need to lessen their barbarity. Hindus need to follow dharma and apply big danda to the adharmic. That pretty much includes all the monotheistic shit that floated out from middle east. The shit of human civilizations.

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 29 Mar 2016 21:52

Hindus didn't get off lightly at all. In fact, the barbarism was carried right into India, all boxes check out.

It lasted from 1560 to 1812. The inquisition was set as a tribunal, headed by a judge, sent to Goa from Portugal and was assisted by two judicial henchmen. The judge was answerable to no one except to Lisbon and handed down punishments as he saw fit. The Inquisition Laws filled 230 pages and the palace where the Inquisition was conducted was known as the Big House and the Inquisition proceedings were always conducted behind closed shutters and closed doors. The screams of agony of the victims (men, women, and children) could be heard in the streets, in the stillness of the night, as they were brutally interrogated, flogged, and slowly dismembered in front of their relatives. Eyelids were sliced off and extremities were amputated carefully, a person could remain conscious even though the only thing that remained was his torso and head.
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a 41 point plan for torturing Hindus
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300 Hindu temples were destroyed. Enacting laws, prohibition was laid from December 4, 1567 on rituals of Hindu marriages, sacred thread wearing and cremation.
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Prohibitions Regarding Marriages ..
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Hindu men should not wear dhoti either in public or in their houses. Women should not wear cholis ...
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In 1583 Hindu temples at Esolna and Kankolim were destroyed through army action.
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The fathers of the Church forbade the Hindus under terrible penalties the use of their own sacred books, and prevented them from all exercise of their religion. They destroyed their temples, and so harassed and interfered with the people that they abandoned the city in large numbers, refusing to remain any longer in a place where they had no liberty, and were liable to imprisonment, torture and death if they worshipped after their own fashion the gods of their fathers
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An order was issued in June 1684 eliminating Konkani language and makin! g it compulsory to speak Portuguese language
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"The post of Inquiry Commission in Goa is regarded as holy." .. The women who opposed the assistants of the commission were put behind the bars and were used by them to satisfy their animal instincts. Then they were burnt alive as opponents of the established tenets of the Catholic church.
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word of its brutality and horrors reached Lisbon but nothing was done to stop this notoriety and escalating barbarity and it continued for two hundred more years.

The barbarism went on for 250 years till another colonial power British put an end to it in 1812.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 29 Mar 2016 22:09

From Twitter:

US orders families of US diplomats, military personnel to leave posts in southern Turkey due to security fears: http://apne.ws/21RlZpR

Lucem ‏@PetoLucem 5h5 hours ago

Kurdish #YPG and #SDF are clashing with insurgents at strategic #Azaz town near #Syria - #Turkey border. #Aleppo

member_23370 · Post by **member_23370** » 29 Mar 2016 22:40

Looks like turki is being slowly and surely abandoned. The soothi mofos probably realize this and want some sort of assurances from India.

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 30 Mar 2016 07:49

On Monday, the Saudi-led Coalition – backed by the Hadi loyalists – launched a massive offensive in northern Yemen, targeting the Houthi-controlled district of Midi near the Saudi border-crossing. However, the offensive was over-hyped by the Saudi-state media and failed to yield any significant gains, despite having air supremacy and the superior firepower against the poorly-armed Houthi fighters and Yemeni Republican Guard. According to the Yemeni news channel “Al-Jabah“, 378 Saudi-led Coalition fighters were killed over the last 48 hours; this report was confirmed by the Yemeni Army’s spokesperson. Optimized by Komoona Al-Jabah News added that the Saudi-led Coalition assault was once again repelled after the latter sustained heavy casualties.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/ma ... es-report/ | Al-Masdar News

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 30 Mar 2016 21:42

Persian Pulse

Iran officials defend Rouhani's Pakistan trip

According to the IRNA article, there were also discussions of strengthening trade on the border markets and between the Chabahar and Gwadar ports.The article also addressed one of the most lingering issues between the two countries — the so-called “peace pipeline” that is supposed to deliver Iranian gas to Pakistan. Iran has completed the pipeline on its side of the border, but the creation of the pipeline in Pakistan has been plagued by continuous delays. According to the article, Pakistani officials have been pressured by Saudi and American officials to not pursue the Iran-Pakistan pipeline due to international sanctions on Iran and replace it with a pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan. IRNA contends that these alternatives sacrifice the energy needs of more than 180 million people for the desires of foreign countries. The article also maintains that despite attempts by “anti-Iranian media” to present obstacles to the pipeline, Pakistani officials are well-aware that their rival India has already proposed a pipeline through the sea.
Despite American and Saudi pressure to reject economic and security cooperation with Iran, Pakistani leaders have always shown their good intentions, claimed the IRNA article. The article continued that Pakistani leaders, including Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, despite pressure from Saudi Arabia, which gives the country considerable aid, has been able to successfully balance relations between the two regional rivals, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The article concluded that important mutual interests and goals between Iran and Pakistan cannot be “overshadowed by propaganda.”
While the IRNA article did not reference specific articles that questioned the outcome of Rouhani’s trip, other media did. “Unfortunately, the achievements of this trip are affected by the propaganda of Saudi and Zionist stations and websites,” said Rouhani adviser Hesam al-Din Ashna March 28 in reference to the London-based BBC Persian article headlined “Rouhani’s fruitless trip to Pakistan.”The BBC article asserted that despite Rouhani traveling to Pakistan with a large delegation, he “returned empty-handed” due to China’s heavy economic influence and American and Saudi objections. The head of Iran’s central bank, the governor of Sistan-Baluchistan province, and the foreign, interior, industry, energy and health ministers accompanied Rouhani on the trip.Perhaps in response to the ongoing criticism, on March 29 Fars News interviewed Pakistani parliamentarian Shafaghat Yarkhan, who belongs to Sharif’s Muslim League party. According to Yarkhan, the media who said Rouhani’s trip was unproductive were biased. He said, “The achievements of Rouhani’s trip to Pakistan are undeniable, and in the future we will see the positive results of this trip.” Yarkhan also said that while the peace pipeline may take time, he was certain that trade between the two countries would increase.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 30 Mar 2016 21:52

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-in ... rs-2195623
In a first, PM Modi to interact with Saudi women entrepreneurs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will, perhaps, become the first foreign dignitary to interact with Saudi Arabian women entrepreneurs when he visits the country on April 3. Saudi Arabia, being the world's most gender-segregated nation, is conferring this honour on Modi not only to show its changing face, but also to signal its readiness to cooperate in the area of anti-radicalisation.Mridul Kumar, joint secretary (Gulf), who briefed media about PM's two-day visit to Saudi Arabia from April 2 at the invitation of King Salman, said the issue of de-radicalisation remains big on India's agenda. Not known to many in the world, Saudi Arabia runs world's most successful de-radicalisation and rehabilitation programme for surrendered or arrested Al Qaeda members and terrorists from other groups through religious re-education and psychological counselling.
Besides bilateral engagements, Modi will visit an all-women IT Centre managed by Tata Consultancy Services in Riyadh. The centre provides employment opportunities and other avenues of empowerment to Saudi women. It is imparting IT skills and entrepreneurship to 1,000 Saudi women.Although women account for 60 per cent of graduate population in Saudi Arabia, Saudi laws don't allow them to mingle with unrelated men. All lines, counters, and eating areas are divided to keep men and women apart. When King Abdullah in 2011 declared appointment of women to the royal advisory council, the Shura, there was outrage from conservatives.Diplomats having fair exposure to Saudi traditions believe that allowing a foreign dignitary to visit an all-women facility and even interacting with them, is a rare honour. It also conveys a message that the Gulf country is in the process of transformation. "This is also the first BPO operation in Saudi Arabia, more so for women. So, it is a very important statement that we will be making there. Prime Minister will also meet with select Saudi business leaders," said Kumar.
Over the years, Saudi Arabia has been in the forefront of cooperation with India on security matters, including putting a stop on money laundering, terrorist financing, narco terrorism etc. Riyadh has also handed over alleged wanted terrorists such as Fasih Mohammad, Zabiudin Ansari alias Abu Jundal in 2012, Abu Sufiyanin December 2015 and Abdul Aziz alias Gidda in February 2016 to India, reflecting close cooperation in security matters.Before leaving for Brussels on the first leg of his visit, Prime Minister Modi said India's relationship with Saudi Arabia rests on four key aspects, which include energy, the community, Haj and security cooperation. "We have working arrangements on labour issues. We have ministerial dialogue on energy cooperation," he said. Saudi Arabia is India's fourth largest trading partner, with exports exceeding $11 billion. It is also one of the biggest suppliers of energy, almost 20 per cent of crude supplies. The country also houses the largest Indian expatriate community of about 2.96 million. They send back over $10 billion in remittances every year. Another key aspect of India's ties with Saudi Arabia is the annual Haj and Umra pilgrimage. Over 1,34,000 Indians go for Haj pilgrimage every year and almost 3,00,000 pilgrims go for Umra.

UlanBatori · Post by **UlanBatori** » 31 Mar 2016 15:21

This belongs in Bojitive Neuj. Could someone post a pic of that conference room? 1 NaMo, 3 Babus/Babis, and 50 identical burkhas. Will they wear numbers? LalMullah may have some pics of the Kendo-Stix sistahs (may they rest in peace) as a preview

Singha · Post by **Singha** » 31 Mar 2016 16:33

I would beg to differ on the goa inquisition being the only case of brutality by the portugese. No, they also came upon by sea into north kerala small ports like kozhikode et al and wantonly slaughtered 100s of fishermen and villagers for absolutely no reason than to spread fear and plunder whatever they could

they were the "ghazis of the sea"

member_22733 · Post by **member_22733** » 31 Mar 2016 16:37

Indeed, we should have summarily executed the portuswine after the liberation of Goa. Instead we became the big hearted Injuns and let them walk away with their loot and their lives.

They also took women and children as slaves after burning down entire villages in the coasts of India. My family history has a few tragic episodes of such insane violence

sanjaykumar · Post by **sanjaykumar** » 31 Mar 2016 19:27

What does his holiness have to say about martyrdom again?

But this is the culture.

vishvak · Post by **vishvak** » 31 Mar 2016 21:56

But .. they were good gazis. USA/Europe had a very strong diplomatic opposition while defending the good gazis during liberation of Goa movement.

And then there was infamous 7th fleet in the bay of Bengol episode during bangla genocide by Pakigazis, along with usual UN opposition, during Bangladesh liberation war - to teach Indians a lesson for liberation of Goa!

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 01 Apr 2016 12:42

UlanBatori wrote:This belongs in Bojitive Neuj. Could someone post a pic of that conference room? 1 NaMo, 3 Babus/Babis, and 50 identical burkhas. Will they wear numbers? LalMullah may have some pics of the Kendo-Stix sistahs (may they rest in peace) as a preview

aah khushi divas...

seriously though, the number of group pics i've seen of kendostyx sistah's in business/academic/cultural events has made me chortle/guffaw/smirk even raise the odd eyebrow - i mean, what is the point?!?! no wonder ATM said pictures are haraam

Shanu · Post by **Shanu** » 01 Apr 2016 20:42

X-Posting from Islamism thread, since this is about the land of Saud.

Cannot tell you how much i enjoyed this report. The true teaching of Malsi is Universal Brotherhood? yeah i'm joking. Atleast Sunni Brotherhood? Do read in full the following report to find out. Sharing some snippets.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/world ... .html?_r=0

The men were not hardened militants. One was a pharmacist, another a heating and cooling technician. One was a high school student. They were six cousins, all living in Saudi Arabia, all with the same secret. They had vowed allegiance to the Islamic State — and they planned to kill another cousin, a sergeant in the kingdom’s counterterrorism force.

And that is what they did. In February, the group abducted Sgt. Bader al-Rashidi, dragged him to the side of a road south of this central Saudi city, and shot and killed him. With video rolling, they condemned the royal family, saying it had forsaken Islam.

In July, a 19-year-old man murdered his uncle, a police colonel, before carrying out a suicide attack near a prison, wounding two guards.

Critics argue that many Saudi clerics have never renounced the aspects of the Wahhabi tradition that the Islamic State has adopted, especially with regard to Shiites, who make up an estimated 10 percent of the kingdom’s 20 million citizens. Many Saudi clerics consider Shiites heretics and accuse them of loyalty to Saudi Arabia’s regional rival, Iran.
The jihadists have exploited this by repeatedly launching suicide attacks on Shiite mosques and then accusing Saudi clerics of hypocrisy for condemning the violence. “It is clearly hard for Saudi clerics to condemn outright attacks on Shiites,” said Mr. Bunzel, the Princeton scholar.

Still, the group had struggled to target the security forces, so it told recruits to kill officers from their own families. General Turki summarized their message as, “You are closer, so no one will know you.”
In September, two men abducted their cousin, a soldier in the Saudi Army, and filmed a video of him bound and begging for mercy in the sand as they pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and shot him dead. The security forces killed one of them and arrested the other.

And the gem at the end.

Sergeant Rashidi’s brothers are glad the six are dead, but the episode has left them deeply suspicious.

“If anyone calls and says, ‘Where are you? I want to see you,’ you don’t trust him anymore,” Bandar said.

Lesson of the day, if you believe in Malsi, you cannot trust your brother.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 02 Apr 2016 07:24

The oldest church in the UAE, and the roots of tolerance
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/n ... rance.html

When Peter Hailer stood on the theater for the winners of the Abu Dhabi Theater Award in 2013, he had spent about 40 years in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), fulfilling his passion for antiquities and working in the journalistic and cultural fields. He recalled one of his hardest nights in the country, when he could not sleep.It was in 1992, and he was in the company of UAE founder Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan on Sir Bani Yas island, where Sheikh Zayed was leading a team to develop it. Hailer discovered with the team a church that was founded in the seventh century AD. He asked himself: “How will the leader of a Muslim country react to the archaeological discovery of a church? Do I tell him or keep it a secret?”The following day, Sheikh Zayed noticed the fatigue and anxiety on the face of Hailer, who revealed the discovery to him. Sheikh Zayed, who ordered its preservation, asked him: “What prevents our ancestors from being ancients Christians before Islam?”
The vision was clear to Sheikh Zayed: There is continuity between different cultures, and the rupture between them is just a presumption adapted by extremists in every culture. This confirms that tolerance in the UAE is routed in history and has a solid basis.The UAE has gained international recognition for fostering coexistence between 200 nationalities of all religions and sects, all of them residents.I have read two studies citing historical examples of tolerance in the country - one by Dr Fatima al-Sayegh, the other by Omar al-Hammadi. For example, Indian businessman Vijay Bhatia recalls that Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed, ruler of Dubai from 1958 until 1990, used to visit the Indian community during their religious festivals, celebrating and eating whatever they were eating.
This reflects the religious tolerance of UAE rulers. l religions and sects, all of them residents.In Sept. 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed his appreciation to the UAE for facilitating the establishment of a Russian Orthodox church. In April 2007, UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan welcomed Pope Shenouda III on the occasion of the opening of the Coptic Orthodox church in Abu Dhabi.UAE law rejects all forms of discrimination. The hope is that such tolerance will spread to other Arab countries.

Shanu · Post by **Shanu** » 02 Apr 2016 09:10

Saudis now realize that the oil age is coming to an end. And finally start on an economic reform path by turning the state oil company Aramco into a publicly traded organization worth US$ 2 trillion (that is Apple+Alphabet+Microsoft+Berkshire worth together

). Upto 50% shares will be up for grabs for foreign players in the quest to create the mega-fund.

However, they are a couple of years too late. Oil is now worth less than $40 instead of the $100 it was worth in 2013-14. And selling Aramco is like selling the crown jewel of Al Saud's political control. Without monetary backing, the Mullahs will soon take a different path of Jihad.

Also, economic reforms is not a multi-course buffet meal, it will require social reforms too - telling people that they are not Allah chosen for a lavish life but have to work their a** off like the rest of the world. And then lies the interesting topic of women empowerment. Lets see how the Wahabis handle this deviant behaviour.

Read the report in full - to get a hang on their plan.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... its-rivals

Shanu · Post by **Shanu** » 02 Apr 2016 09:19

Jhujar wrote:The oldest church in the UAE, and the roots of tolerance
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/views/n ... rance.html

For example, Indian businessman Vijay Bhatia recalls that Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed, ruler of Dubai from 1958 until 1990, used to visit the Indian community during their religious festivals, celebrating and eating whatever they were eating.

Well we have to use what we can use. Oman and UAE are the starting points to let the Middle-East know of our Dharmic traditions. The rest will follow slowly, hopefully in our lifetime.

Falijee · Post by **Falijee** » 02 Apr 2016 17:47

Saudi Oil Age Coming To An End ; therefore posting this here:

End of Oil Age: Saudi Arabia planning for $2 trillion investment fund

RIYADH (Web Desk) – The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is preparing for the end of the oil age by creating a $2trillion investment fund which is set to be ‘the largest on Earth’.
The Public Investment Fund (PIF) established by the kingdom’s second-in-line to the throne will eventually be large enough to buy Google, Apple and Microsoft with money to spare, the Bloomberg reported.
Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who oversees the fund, claims that the initial public offering could happen as soon as next year.

One of those "hot air" declarations now that the family enterprise is fighting on more than one front (Yemen, falling oil revenue, rampant corruption, chronic youth unemployment, Massa "embrace" of Iran, Syria failure )

It comes as Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude exporter, insists that it will only freeze its oil output if other key producers, including Iran, take a similar measure.
“What is left now is to diversify investments,” the 30-year-old prince told Bloomberg, during an interview from Riyadh. “So within 20 years, we will be an economy or state that doesn’t depend mainly on oil.”

Will a prudent person invest in an enterprise, where major decisions are merely made on the whim of one person !

The Saudi prince said he doesn’t believe the kingdom has a ‘real problem’ when it comes to low oil prices, despite the fact the price of a barrel of crude oil has more than halved. “Undoubtedly, it will be the largest fund on Earth,” added the prince. “This will happen as soon as Aramco goes public.”

The reporter, if he had the guts, should have follow up questions on "real problems" on other fronts!

His remarks come ahead of a meeting of major oil producers led by Russia and Saudi Arabia set to take place in Doha on April 17, to discuss measures to stabilise prices, including a proposal not to pump out oil above a certain level.

The upcoming meeting in Doha is a follow-up to talks in February between Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, in which they first mooted the output freeze.

habal · Post by **habal** » 02 Apr 2016 20:05

US Helicopter Fails to Rescue ISIL Leader in Ta’iz Province.

A US airborne operation to rescue a senior ISIL leader in Southern Zobab city in Ta’iz province failed after the Yemeni army and popular forces killed the terrorist commander, Arab media reports disclosed on Thursday. “Abu Ayoub al-Ansari was killed by the Yemeni army and popular forces before the US helicopter could rescue him and take him out of the battlefield."
Meantime, another ISIL leader, Abu Hameh, was also killed by the Yemeni army in recent days.

https://syrianfreepress.wordpress.com/2 ... aesh-army/

ldev · Post by **ldev** » 02 Apr 2016 21:05

Narendra Modi having a meal with Indian workers in Saudi Arabia today, "Your sweat & toil is the pride of India".