America's Best Prop In The Middle East

[IloveImamHussain]

Saudi princesses kept as 'hostages' by king

 

 

Four Saudi Arabian princesses who grew up surrounded by luxury say their father now keeps them locked up for speaking out against the country's oppression of women.

 

Sahar, Maha, Hala and Jawaher Al Saud are daughters of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, whose $16 billion fortune paid for extravagant shopping sprees and luxury holidays when the women were children.  But Sahar, Abdullah's eldest daughter, says the king has now trapped the sisters — who are aged 42 to 38 — in separate quarters of his palace against their will and forbidden any man from marrying them.

 

"We are cut off and isolated and alone," Sahar told theNew York Post during a "rare and surreptitious" phone call. "We are hostages. No one can come see us, and we can't go see anyone. Our father is responsible and his sons, our half-brothers, are both culprits in this tragedy." She described their living quarters as insect-infested "ruins" and said she and her sisters are frequently beaten with sticks and verbally abused by men, who sometimes include their own half-brothers.The women are also starved and refused medical treatment.

 

Sahar claims Abdullah imprisoned the women after they spoke out against Saudi Arabia's oppressive treatment of women. She said their public objections to women being illegally detained and placed in mental wards "was it for him. It was the end for us". "I assure you that we didn't commit a crime or do anything to deserve this," Sahar said. Abdullah has other daughters who are not kept locked up and who have pursued careers in business and medicine.

 

However, he keeps Sahar, Maha, Hala and Jawaher imprisoned because he hates that they are "free thinkers", according to the women's London-based mother Alanoud Al Fayez.

"They are compassionate about the plight of women in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Arab world. The injustices that we see are terrible, and someone must say something," Al Fayez told the Post.

An official at London's Saudi embassy told the Post the sisters are free to move about Abdullah's palace, but must be accompanied by armed security guards at all times because they are royalty.

Al Fayez claims that's a lie.

 

She says she was considered "worthless" in Saudi Arabian culture because she gave birth to four girls shortly after her arranged marriage to the king in 1972. Abdullah, who has had 30 wives and fathered more than 40 children, divorced Al Fayez without her knowledge — which is legal in Saudi Arabia — in 1980s. She fled Saudi Arabia in 2001 with help from one of Abdullah's security guards, and now works to secure her daughters' release.

 

"Leaving my daughters was very difficult, but I never thought they’d be subjected to this," Al Fayez said. "They are just trying to hold onto their sanity. They are suffering ... with no hope for salvation."

[aliyah21]

The article's about KSA. What does this have to do with the US? 

[IloveImamHussain]

I never said it has anything to do with the US.

 

I merely described the KSA as America's best prop in the region.  

 

The whole world knows that KSA is a mad society and yet their lips are sealed just for personal interests.

 

That is all.

[PeaceLoving]

Political friendship does not depend on principles of morals, ethics and justice. As long as Iran is there, America's love affaitr with KSA will keep going stronger.

 

The outcome of the Shia-Sunni fray will be decided by Washington. 

[baqar]

The article's about KSA. What does this have to do with the US? 

 

The KSA is one of the two nails the US uses to drive its policies in the region.  The other, of course, is Israel.

[Son of Placid]

This is for real? I used to get emails from Saudi princesses locked up. They would deposit X million dollars in my account is I gave them the number. I just had to pay the handling fees.

[baqar]

They would deposit X million dollars in my account if I gave them the number. 

 

Did you finally yield to the temptation to win millions and give them your account details?

[Son of Placid]

Did you finally yield to the temptation to win millions and give them your account details?

Actually, I went to a site called scambaits. All they do is play with these 419 scams, and have a wealth of info on how to trace. Become a member and they set you up with a mentor and all. Mentor gave me back a week later saying I wasn't there to play.

I traced an internet café in Nigeria sells pizza and ganga, and allows the scams to happen, located it on google, sent the information to their authorities. I have no proof it had anything to do with it, but within the week, 16 were arrested in an internet café in the area, but the report didn't mention which café it was.

 

Scambaits was also into baiting foreign women in peril, looking for a hero. I photoshopped a full itinerary from their closest airports, (never the one they claim), four stops, two nights + breakfast, gift cert for Starbucks, in the airport, to Edmonton, Alberta. Never heard from any of them again. Heartbroken.

 

I have a nephew, in law, (no fault of my own) who spent $3500. he didn't have but is still waiting for his account to fill up.

[baqar]

Actually, I went to a site called scambaits. All they do is play with these 419 scams, and have a wealth of info on how to trace. Become a member and they set you up with a mentor and all. Mentor gave me back a week later saying I wasn't there to play. I traced an internet café in Nigeria sells pizza and ganga, and allows the scams to happen, located it on google, sent the information to their authorities. I have no proof it had anything to do with it, but within the week, 16 were arrested in an internet café in the area, but the report didn't mention which café it was.

 

Boy, that is senational.

 

Nigeria harbors some of the leading online scammers in the world.  

 

But no one is to be trusted. One must distrust almost everyone else on the Internet.

 

You can never know what is going on at the back of someone's head. 

[Son of Placid]

Boy, that is senational.

 

Nigeria harbors some of the leading online scammers in the world.  

 

But no one is to be trusted. One must distrust almost everyone else on the Internet.

 

You can never know what is going on at the back of someone's head. 

Nigeria and the Netherlands are both big into this type of scam. If it seems too good to be true, it usually is.

 

Distrust isn't limited to the internet, but it's a great place for the socially inept to pretend to be somebody.

Many reasons. Some are quite entertaining, some are sad situations. Getting behind the façade is extra work but some people are worth it.

Many are lacking in life, want to be accepted, want to be loved, want to dominate, want to control.

I've driven 300 klms to pick up a kid who bussed from Kansas to Edmonton for a girl who wasn't there, brought him back to my place, consoled him, gave him a few other things to think about, waved bye at the bus station, and watched him find a decent woman,( in his own home town) marry her, he has kids and what seems to be a good life.

Like I said, some are worth it, others, well you just want to swim in their Florida drinking water.