tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post6908440708353839674..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: The Oil and Money StraitjacketUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-22882036362116572332010-01-10T09:19:55.947-05:002010-01-10T09:19:55.947-05:00Thanks for this background info, Barkley.
I'v...Thanks for this background info, Barkley.<br /><br />I've read that King Faisal had been protected by an elite guard trained by a private econtractor selected by the United States Department of Defense. <br /><br />His death occurred just at the time the US was claimed to be attempting to re-establish their global financial cartel and Australia was seeking to buy out foreign corporate ownership of its energy resources (and further develop them). “Prince Faisal Bin Musad (Faisal’s assassin) had just returned from the US and was captured directly after the attack and declared officially insane. He was later found guilty of regicide and in June 1975 he was beheaded.” <br /><br />A very quick beheading. No time for a proper interrogation it seems.Myrtle Blackwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07427043367624101075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-34547482971596191002010-01-08T11:57:02.122-05:002010-01-08T11:57:02.122-05:00Regarding the death of King Faisal, whose face is ...Regarding the death of King Faisal, whose face is on all the money of the country except for the one riyal note, where his father the founder of the Kingdom, Abdulaziz is. Faisal was the smartest of his 43 sons and at age 16 was his representative at Versailles, effectively his foreign minister. One of Faisal's sons, Sa'ud, has been foreign minister since not too long after the assassination of Faisal.<br /><br />Faisal was assassinated by a crazed nephew gone religious fanatic (with 42 brothers he had a lot of nephews). This nephew had spent time in Berkeley going to UCB there and was quite dissolute by all accounts, wine, women, and song, etc. Upon returning to Saudi Arabia later he went through a conversion and became upset about certain decisions of his uncle that would later be the basis for an uprising by ultra-fundamentalist tribals in 1979 who seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca: that showing sports on TV was allowed, that Shi'a were being allowed to have jobs, and that women were allowed to go to school. The nephew walked into a majlis held by Faisal and pulled out a gun and shot him and then shot himself. <br /><br />BTW, by all accounts Faisal was completely uncorruptible, unlike most of his brothers, and he also came from the family that provided the traditional religious leadership of the country, the al-Sheikhs, descended from Mohammed al-Wah'hab whose alliance with the original Sa'ud in 1740 from whom the al-Sa'ud family takes its name was the beginning of what would later become the country. Wah'hab advocated imposition of the ultra-strict Hanbali Sunni law code, and adocacy of this became the ideology of the family. They have continued to spread what is now called "Wah'habism" and since 1973 with strong funding, including madrassas in Pakistan and Afghanistan. One of the things the Taliban did when they took over in Afghanistan was to substitue the Hanbali law code for the much more liberal Hanafi one.rosserjb@jmu.eduhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300046915843554101noreply@blogger.com