Narrated Abdullah ibn Amr ibn al-'As:
The Apostle of Allah (peace be upon him) cursed the one who bribes and the
one who takes bribes.
(Sunnan Dawood - Book 24, Number 3573)
On July 6, The Guardian, a BBC derivative released what by now should have made headlines across every single newspaper and media outlet in the world. Having conducted an analysis of the Al-Yamamah arms deal, arranged as the biggest arms deal in the history of the world, it was alleged that BAE Systems, Britain’s largest defense manufacturer, had delivered approximately $2 billion over a 22 year period to Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, Saudi Arabia’s National Security Chief and longtime friend of the Bush and Cheney cabal. The allegations were however categorically denied by the Prince on June 13 as he claimed in an interview that, “The allegations in The Guardian have nothing to do with the truth and reality but represent a pinnacle of slander and lies…” “All the amounts mentioned by the newspaper were transferred from Saudi government accounts to other accounts of the Saudi government in the United States, and not to my personal accounts,” Prince Bandar said. “It is illogical to believe that any transfer in keeping with US and British banking regulations can be kept secret, or without the governments or the parties concerned being informed.” He said, “All the parties concerned in the Saudi government were aware and fully informed of all the spending through the ACCOUNTS IN RIGGS BANK…” He went on to explain that Saudi Arabia was aware of all the transactions and activities with the account and continues to deny the accusations.
Fraud and corruption are certainly not surprising indictments in referring to the rulers of Saudi Arabia. However, what Bandar claimed in this, his initial statement, leads one to investigate further. The adage amongst the investigative journalists covering the story was, “follow the money” and indeed their evidence for the allegations of fraud is overwhelming1, but as Muslims continue to suffer in and outside of Saudi Arabia largely as a result of the House of Saud’s treachery, the case offers a rare peak into who the Saudis are intimately tied to and how their treachery works. Therefore, additional inquiries of the players involved need be pursued. Indeed, in a time when those that call for the replacement of the oppressive apostate regimes are labeled as extremists and deviants, it is necessary to explain and understand how and why these claims are made. Surely these press releases and the continuous development should help us understand how Middle East governments work in cahoots with the enemies of Islam and who they work for. The trail leads to sinister covert operations against citizens everywhere and should affect and inspire you to join the struggle against the oppression of Muslims across the globe.
When they come to thee, they say: "We
believe": but in fact they enter with disbelief, and they go out with the
same but Allah knows full well all that they hide.
Many of them dost thou see, racing each other in sin and rancour, and their
eating of things forbidden (suht – bribe money). Evil indeed are the things
that they do.
Why do not the rabbis and the doctors of Law forbid them from their (habit
of) uttering sinful words and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed are their
works. (5: 61-63)
The investigation occurred over a ten year period and
was conducted largely by Britain’s Serious Fraud Office. Mysteriously,
however, the investigation was ordered closed after allegations started to
be waged that tied Saudi and British fraud together. It was the airing of
the report by the Guardian and BBC’s documentary show Panorama that leaked
the story to the mainstream and publicized the irrefutable scandal that
connects Saudi Arabia again to the Queen and Britain. It wasn’t too long ago
that the previous King Fahd walked through the palace in London with the
Fascist cross around his neck showing his allegiance to the sinister plots
of Western imperialism2. And indeed it wasn’t that far back either that the
Saudi’s agreement to rebel against the Ottoman caliphate for 5,000lbs. of
sterling per month occurred in exchange for British recognition of Abdul-Aziz
as the King of Najd, but when the money-trail of this immediate instance is
followed we see that Saudi loyalty to the Queen goes further and that this
conspiracy spans across the globe.
BAE Systems is chiefly connected to many of the institutions and mechanisms
of the financial-military-industrial complex that dominates the world today.
BAE chief executive officer Michael Turner is a director of Lazard Freres
international global investment bank. BAE chairman Richard Olver is a former
director and deputy group chief executive of BP plc, the British oil giant
which controls the North Slope oilfields in Alaska and whose negligence
caused the deadly explosion of its Texas City refinery several years ago.
Olver is also a director of Reuters, a news service/propaganda arm of the
British Empire. BAE director Philip Carroll is a former CEO of Shell Oil
Co., the U.S. arm of Royal Dutch Shell, which itself is tightly connected to
the Rothschild and Lazard banks. Carroll is also a former chairman and CEO
of Fluor Corp., a global engineering firm now headed by J.P. Morgan Cazenove
vice chairman Lord Robin Renwick. BAE director Dr. Ulrich Cartellieri is a
member of the International Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank
of New York, and is a former director of Deutsche Bank. BAE director Sir
Nigel Rudd is deputy chairman of Barclays, the British bank which is the
largest in the world ranked by assets. BAE director Roberto Quarto is a
partner in the private equity fund Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, which is
multiply connected to the Morgan industrial and financial apparatus. BAE
director Peter Weinberg is a partner in the boutique investment bank Perella
Weinberg Partners. Weinburg is a former senior director of Goldman Sachs,
whose father and grandfather were also senior partners at Goldman Sachs3.
Obviously, BAE is seriously connected to international financiers and many
of the contraptions that represent international corporate hegemony and
corruption.
But the allegations of bribery must not simply stop at BAE and Bandar. His
claims that all the account transactions were well publicized and went
through Riggs Bank shed additional light on the subject and trace back to
the true cause and enemy against Islam today. Riggs Bank, another implicated
party in the scandal, is far from the reputable institution that Bandar
would have you believe. As he claimed, “It is illogical to believe that any
transfer in keeping with US and British banking regulations can be kept
secret…” careful consideration and research shows that it is hardly
illogical to tie Riggs Bank to allegations of fraud. In 1977, Washington
Post reporter Bob Woodward tied Riggs Bank to payments in a CIA operation in
Iran, where the shah had contracted for a $500 million border surveillance
system. That same year, the Washington Post's Robert Meyers reported from
the espionage trial of former CIA employee Edwin Gibbons Moore. A defense
psychiatrist who examined Moore and thought him paranoid told the court that
the defendant claimed to have spoken to the "CIA liaison officer at Riggs
bank." (Moore was convicted of espionage and sentenced to 15 years in
prison.) According to the Center for American Progress:
Riggs Bank is headed by longtime Bush family friend Joe Allbritton, employs President Bush's uncle Jonathan as a top executive, and other executives have been financial donors to the Bush campaign. The bank is at the center of a controversy, according to the Wall Street Journal, for failing to monitor "tens of millions of dollars in cash withdrawals from accounts related to the Saudi Arabian and Equatorial Guinean embassy," including "suspicious incidents involving dozens of sequentially numbered cashier's checks and international drafts written by Saudi officials.
Apparently, Bush crony Joe Allbritton and uncle Jonathan Bush oversaw a bank that was laundering money for Augusto Pinochet, Equatorial Guinea, and apparently the Saudis and Prince Sultan (Or rather, Bandar Bush bin Sultan)? In fact news reports and government confirmations have tied Riggs Bank to financial machinations not only of the Saudi despots but to dictators and warlords from Africa and South America, and especially Pinochet, Chile’s former fascist dictator. 4 An article by Glenn Simpson in the Wall Street Journal, Dec. 31, 2004 reported that Riggs had an extensive dealing with the CIA. He stated, “The relationship with the CIA could prove problematic because it could cast a different light on the bank's dealings with two U.S. foreign-policy allies, former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Saudi ambassador to Washington.” “Given the intelligence connections to Riggs, prosecutors could be faced with proving that the bank's failure to disclose financial activity by the foreign officials wasn't implicitly authorized by parts of the U.S. government.” Still, following lengthy investigations by the Treasury Department and the Senate, in 2005, Riggs Bank, once one of the most prestigious banks in the U.S., admitted its guilt in numerous money laundering schemes involving the aforementioned clients. Subsequently, Bandar’s alleged innocence is highly doubtful. According to this week's Newsweek, Riggs's documentation of its Saudi accounts may contain clues about what Bandar in fact received from BAE:
The Riggs Bank records show the use of those funds raised concerns among bank officials and U.S. regulators. In November 2003, Riggs filed a "suspicious activity report" with the Treasury Department disclosing that over a four-month period, $17.4 million from the Saudi Defense account had been disbursed to a single individual in Saudi Arabia. When Riggs officials asked the Saudis who the person was and why he was receiving the funds, they were told the individual "coordinates home improvement/construction projects for Prince Bandar in Saudi Arabia," and the payments were for a "new Saudi palace," one document shows.
In another instance, Bandar wired $400,000 from a Riggs account to a luxury-car dealer overseas. "It was impossible to distinguish between government funds and what would normally be considered personal purposes," said David Caruso, who served as Riggs's compliance officer at the time. Caruso also confirmed to NEWSWEEK that the Saudi Defense account was regularly replenished with $30 million each quarter from an account in London. But the bank never knew the source of the funds. The bank was so concerned about the withdrawals that it cut off all business with the Saudis. In May 2005, the U.S. Treasury fined Riggs $25 million for failing to monitor "extensive and frequent suspicious" activity in Saudi and other accounts. (Asked about the Riggs records, Bandar's lawyer said the palace in question was "Prince Bandar's official residence" in Saudi Arabia and that audits by the Saudi Finance Ministry found "no irregularities" in the Saudi accounts while Bandar was ambassador.)
So Riggs Bank leads to Pinochet and Equatorial Guinea,
the same place where Margaret Thatcher's son, one of the main beneficiaries
of the BAE bribery, sponsored a coup (one wonders where he got the money to
sponsor that coup?) In fact, this trail leads to key players in the present
“War on Terror” and ties the Saudis closer as active intimate companions to
the War against Islam. One must understand that Saudi support for the War on
Terror is quite more intense than they portray. For instance, Saudi Arabia
had a wider role in the War in Iraq than had been publicized, “American
officials said the Saudi royal family permitted the staging of special
forces operations from inside Saudi Arabia, allowed some 250-300 mainly
transport and surveillance planes to fly missions from Saudi Arabia, and
provided tens of millions of dollars in discounted oil, gas, and fuel for
U.S. forces5. In reality Saudi Arabia has supported the Bush-Cheney cabals,
neoconservative ideology since the beginning.
For instance, Eliot Abrams is a neo-con who actively engaged in the AIPAC
(American Israel Public Affairs Committee) efforts to thwart a Reagan
Administration attempt to converge on an arms deal with the Saudis in 1985.
After the deal was blocked by the neo-con influence the very next day Prince
Bandar flew to Britain and Margaret Thatcher and engaged in the BAE scandal
that should presently be rocking the world. Eliot Abrams, now Deputy
National Security Advisor has been feeding arms into Palestine through Egypt
and attempting to instigate a civil war between Hamas and Fatah. He is
selling armaments to warlords like Muhammad Dalan who are turning profits by
arming both Hamas and Fatah militant wings. This is the fifth column of
government that Hamas officials so bravely fought against and so the
outbreak of violence in Gaza has nothing to do with a civil war between
Fathah and Hamas and everything to do with the deliberate manipulation of
parties that are attempting to covertly influence the region. Abrams is the
ally of Dick Cheney the closest ally of Bandar and so in classic
connect-the-dots a deep conspiracy begins to unfold that spells nothing but
deceit and the collaboration of the House of Saud to conspire with the
neoconservative movement rampaging the world these days. Apparently Cheney
and Bandar have been
freelancing on foreign policy of late also. Of course, Congress has no
record of these covert operations but if what New Yorker reporter Sy Hersch
claims is true, than there is covert funding going toward destabilizing the
Middle East and especially in Palestine6 where it is alleged that arms were
distributed with the help of Abrams to Fatah-Al-Islam to fight shia
Hezbollah until they revolted against the Lebanese army themselves and went
off in their own chosen direction. Hersch claims, “we have been pumping
money, a great deal of money, without congressional authority, without any
congressional oversight, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia is putting up some of
this money, for covert operations in many areas of the Middle East where we
think that the — we want to stop the Shiite spread or the Shiite influence.”
There is no doubt that the monies required to fund these efforts certainly
come from covert accounts and mechanisms like those resulting from the
allegations against Bandar and BAE. After all, he is royal family, and is
far from needing to accept bribes out of financial necessity. It is highly
probable that his hand is funding these covert operations and primarily
because of the Shia problem in the Middle East that has resulted since the
US has been unable to engage in direct military confrontation in Iran.
Regardless of the actuality, fraud and deception are a guarantee and with
other names added to the list, a vast conspiracy unfolds that has the CIA’s
make-up all over it.
Eliot Abrams was convicted in the Iran –Contra affair.
He and his neo-con buddies prevented the arms deal from going through in
America with the help of AICAC and his involvement is all over other
outbreaks in the Middle East. He is a primary supporter of Dick Cheney and
Dick Cheney is a close confidant of Prince Bandar. The covert operations
highlight how arms make their way into the Middle East in convenient ways
that permit the perpetual misery of Muslims throughout the region. The BAE
conspiracy should officially merge the House of Saud intimately with the
Queen of Britain and her Freemasonic comptrollers. It exposes the reality
that the Saudis work for the West and that they are not interested in any
way of protecting and promoting peace.
Contrary to popular portrayal, the global system operates not under the
premise of nation-state and sovereign government but rather on a financial
system founded on corporatist and fascist elitism, striving under the guise
of globalization to conquer and realize its End of History, New World Order.
These days certainly appear to be those mentioned to us in the hadith in
regard to the coming of the dajjal but regardless it is for Islamic voices
across the globe to cry out in allegiance to all those groups carrying the
banner of Islam and thus foiling the conspiratorial plots of the
international financiers and their cronies and working toward the
establishment of the shariah. Surely, their power is deceptive and if it
were not the case they would not have to expend such efforts to protect
their vested interests. As Allah tells us in the Quran:
The parable of those who take guardians besides Allah is as the parable of the spider that makes for itself a house; and surely indeed the frailest of the houses is the spider’s house – if they but knew!
Why do not the rabbis and the doctors of
Law forbid them from their (habit of) uttering sinful words and eating
things forbidden? Evil indeed are their works…One wonders how
the clergy class in Saudi Arabia will protect the House of Saud and Prince
Bandar in this instance (but it is nearly indubitable that they will find a
way to exonerate them from responsibility). How long will their taking for
guardians the dominant West aid them in protecting their power and control
of Saudi Arabia? Muslims everywhere need to interpret the reality of the
present world utilizing core Islamic understandings in continuing to
struggle toward the replacement of these despotic regimes in the Middle East
from every which way. The destruction of our caliphate continues to destroy
the actual existence of our Islamic principles and culture and the
allegations against Prince Bandar should not solely implicate him. We should
implicate the entire regime and hold it accountable for the damage done not
only in international relations and covert operations but also in proceeds
wasted, proceeds that cost the citizenry billions also.
In an era where we are constantly told by the certified clergy of the House
of Saud that politics and religion cannot coexist, where moderates represent
Islam in America and admit that they would rather live in the West than in
the Middle East and don’t probe into the actual cause or call for the
dismantlement and distribution of Islamic rights to our brothers and sisters
across the globe, and where Sufi sheiks call for constant dhikr and
introspection rather than practical pragmatic effort to resist oppression,
it becomes imperative that we pursue Islam in a way that picks up where the
Islamic induced Renaissance of Europe left off and where an approach to
religion that views the establishment of Allah’s deen across the globe as
the ultimate worship and that counteracts the view that religion must remain
in the home and individualized, while simultaneously accepting development
and scientific and technological advancement. Despite derogatory reports and
incessant propaganda against the “terrorists” and “extremists,” they have
garnished widespread support in war-torn areas and regions largely because
they are a fresh, honest solution to the conspiracy and collaboration
against true Islam and understand that Islam is truly the only solution.
They are not fraudulent, are generally interested in promoting the
well-being of all, and do not engage in intimate companionship with Western
Powers. They don’t do business with the dajjal.
We must return to practice this deen as it was understood by the Companions of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). As Malik's Muwatta (Book 33, Number 33.1.2) describes,
Malik related to me from Ibn Shihab from Sulayman ibn Yasar that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, used to send Abdullah ibn Rawaha to Khaybar, to assess the division of the fruit crop between him and the Jews of Khaybar.
The Jews collected for Abdullah pieces of their women's jewellery and said to him, "This is yours. Go light on us and don't be exact in the division!"
Abdullah ibn Rawaha said, "O tribe of Jews! By Allah! You are among the most hateful to me of Allah's creation, but it does not prompt me to deal unjustly with you. What you have offered as a bribe is forbidden. We will not touch it." They said, "This is what supports the heavens and the earth."
It must also be understood that abstract entities like “America” can no longer be blamed for the daily atrocities against the Islamic ummah. This article should help one to understand that the present world is dominated by covert mechanisms that exist inside all governments, institutions, and corporations. It is the camp of Kufr that is responsible for these oppressions. It is an ideology, largely fascist, that rears its ugly head indiscriminately and no longer pays attention to statehood. It is termed modern-capitalism or globalization and treated as though it were a natural progression and unavoidable phenomenon; its fundamental concerts are built on competition and greed and the notion that man is beast and has evolved from a monkey. It is, as it always has been, a natural by-product of disbelief, but because the Muslims are largely unaware of it, because they are divided and ruled by oppressors that work in conjunction with this beast, there is great oppression and disturbance across the world. Because the Muslims have started to adhere to the degrading form of religion that gives unto Caesar’s what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s, because the scholars are largely unaware or cover up the truth, the whole world, Muslim and Non-Muslim suffers. There are times when you have to fight, when you have to take a stand and say enough is enough, when passive introspection is not sufficient and when you must struggle loudly and proudly to resist intellectually and politically. Cases like these come and go in the media and they are recognized for two or three days before they fizzle, but they lead to greater questions and to opportunities to understand how the conspiracy against Islam works, and to pressure oppressive institutions, to work toward closing the mechanisms of the global cabal. We must strive for Islamic independence and sovereignty. We must educate ourselves and return to our deen and we must establish the shariah across our lands so that we may live in peace apart from the people of war. Won’t you join us in the struggle?
A Time for Thought.
A Time For Change.
A Time For Action.
2. see video of King Fahd with cross here:
www.islamicthinkers.com/index/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=59&Itemid=58
3. courtesy of the researchers at larouchepac.com
4. for specifics see the Senate Subcommittee’s report @
http://www.moneylaundering.com/subscribers/resources/psi_aml_report.pdf
5. See Congressional Research document on the World Wide Web at:
http://italy.usembassy.gov/pdf/other/RL33533.pdf
6. (http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/25/hersh-qaeda/)