{"id":186858,"date":"2013-09-14T20:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T01:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/14\/just-when-you-thought-that-the-house-of-saud-could-not-get-any-more-vile\/"},"modified":"2013-09-14T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T01:13:00","slug":"just-when-you-thought-that-the-house-of-saud-could-not-get-any-more-vile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/09\/14\/just-when-you-thought-that-the-house-of-saud-could-not-get-any-more-vile\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Thought that the House of Saud Could Not Get Any More Vile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/2013\/09\/13\/saudis-sending-deathrow-prisoners-to-fight-with-rebels-in-syria\/\">sending death row inmates to fight in their war in Syria<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">What is the role of Saudi Arabia in this proposal for a US military  strike on Syria? It is not a question you will see asked much in the  American media, but you should. Internationally there has been some  coverage of the Saudi role, particularly the oceans of cash they\u2019ve been  lavishing on jihadist rebels for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/jun\/22\/saudi-arabia-syria-rebel-army\">over a year.<\/a> Rich Saudis like (now deceased) Osama Bin Laden and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bandar_bin_Sultan\">Saudi Intel Chief Prince Bandar<\/a>  are traditionally the biggest backers of radical Islamist groups in the  world. President Assad continually noted in his interview with Charlie  Rose that the Saudis were <a href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/2013\/09\/10\/assad-blames-saudi-arabia-for-driving-war\/\">pouring their petro-dollars into Wahhabist Al-Qaeda linked rebels in Syria.<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">And now it is reported that the Saudi Arabian government is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsfwcorp.com\/dispatch\/saudi-dirty-dozen\/3a7bc6d50e733fcbb7cb039dad999f71baa882bc\/\">granting amnesty to death row inmates in exchange for them going to Syria to wage jihad.<\/a><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Well, it seems some Saudi bureaucrats looked at the stalemate in Syria and came up with a way to think outside the box\u2014and by \u201cbox\u201d I mean \u201cdeath row cell.\u201d According to a story filed by A.I.N.A., an Iraqi Assyrian PR agency, the Saudi Ministry of Interior came up with a brand-new plague to inflict on Syria in 2012: \u201cLet\u2019s fly a bunch of death-row inmates over there and give them automatic weapons!\u201d Seriously. Here\u2019s the memo:<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026we are in dialogue with the accused criminals who have been convicted with smuggling drugs, murder, rape, from the following nationalities: 110 Yemenis, 21 Palestinians, 212 Saudis, 96 Sudanese, 254 Syrians, 82 Jordanians, 68 Somalis, 32 Afghanis, 94 Egyptians, 203 Pakistanis, 23 Iraqis, and 44 Kuwaitis.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">We have reached an agreement with them that they will be exempted from the death sentence and given a monthly salary to their families and loved ones, who will be prevented from traveling outside Saudi Arabia in return for rehabilitation of the accused and their training in order to send them to Jihad in Syria.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Please accept my greetings.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">[Signed]<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Director of follow up in Ministry of Interior<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Abdullah bin Ali al-Rmezan<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And we are on their side.<\/p>\n<p>They are sending murders, rapists, and other criminals to fight for their Islamist forces in Syria, and we are on their side.<\/p>\n<p>Think about that:&nbsp; We are on their side.<\/p>\n<p>You think that these guys care about the rules of war of the well-being of the Syrian people.<\/p>\n<p>You know that everything is f%$#ed up and sh%$ when Putin is on the side of the angels.<\/p>\n<p>A reminder:&nbsp; We are on these guy&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that they are sending death row inmates to fight in their war in Syria: What is the role of Saudi Arabia in this proposal for a US military strike on Syria? It is not a question you will see asked much in the American media, but you should. Internationally there has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,1032,969,1031,986,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-evil","category-house-of-saud","category-middle-east","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}