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Who's your fav [s]drug dealer[/s]Middle East ally? - 10/28/2015 7:55:42 AM

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A Prince of the Saudi royal family, those well known paragons of human rights and freedom, impeccable allies of the West in the not too Western-friendly Middle East, has gone and got himself busted at Beirut Airport with a shit load of illegal drugs just as he and his cronies were about to skip town. The UK 'Independent' reports:
"It’s not every day you get to bust a Saudi prince. Amphetamines. Twenty-five boxes and six suitcases, all – according to photos and video – stamped with the Saudi Arabia emblem of palm tree and crossed swords, to be shipped out on a private Saudi jet.

And on the boxes can be seen the name of an emir of the state for which David Cameron himself lowers the British flag when the monarch dies. Even this short dispatch may have the effect – fear not – of raising the eyebrows of the Saudi ambassador to London, who has been warning the British that 50,000 UK families may be at risk of losing their livelihoods if we don’t stop whining on about human rights in their Salafist-Wahhabi institutional kingdom.

But relax. Abdul Mohsen bin Walid bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud (born 18 July 1986, according to his diplomatic passport) was reported to have been attempting to fly out of Beirut International Airport with four Saudi chums on his private jet on Sunday. The Lebanese who grabbed them must regret that their customs scanner ever picked up the cargo.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/saudi-prince-caught-up-in-drugs-bust-lucky-the-incident-happened-in-beirut-a6711076.html

The Saudis are of course the West's 'loyal' allies in the 'War on Terror' but not it seems the 'War on Drugs' - unlike the South and Latin Americans where the two wars are indistinguishable (with another war on Communism thrown in for good measure). Perhaps they are getting their wars mixed up ... Anyways, I'm sure the Saudi's IS clients/proxies in Syria and Iraq will be suitably shocked at their benefactors' decadence.

Is anyone surprised that the West's #1 Arab ally is also running drugs on the sly? While they do have hefty arms bills to pay off, I haven't heard that they are particularly short of cash. Oils ain't worth wot dey used to be I guess!

Your thoughts .......

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RE: Who's your fav [s]drug dealer[/s]Middle East ally? - 10/28/2015 8:28:50 AM

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Actually it now appears that the Saudis, such resourceful types they are, have found a novel way of combining the Wars on Terror and Drugs..... The UK Guardian reports:

"As Syria sinks ever deeper into civil war, evidence is starting to emerge that a brutal and bloody conflict that has left more than 100,000 people dead and displaced as many as two million is now also being fuelled by both the export and consumption of rapidly increasing quantities of illegal drugs.

Separate investigations by the news agency Reuters and Time magazine have found that the growing trade in Syrian-made Captagon – an amphetamine widely consumed in the Middle East but almost unknown elsewhere – generated revenues of millions of dollars inside the country last year, some of which was almost certainly used to fund weapons, while combatants on both sides are reportedly turning to the stimulant to help them keep fighting.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2014/jan/13/captagon-amphetamine-syria-war-middle-east

Fisk's report in the Independent asserted that the drugs found in the Saudi plane were Catagon. Two tons of it!

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RE: Who's your fav [s]drug dealer[/s]Middle East ally? - 10/28/2015 9:34:40 AM

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RE: Who's your fav [s]drug dealer[/s]Middle East ally? - 10/28/2015 9:44:17 AM

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Is anyone surprised that the West's #1 Arab ally is also running drugs on the sly? While they do have hefty arms bills to pay off, I haven't heard that they are particularly short of cash. Oils ain't worth wot dey used to be I guess!

Your thoughts .......

well,.. its call "diversification", aint it???

especially with oil at $40... and no turnaround in prices to be seen any time soon.. (and some say prices going lower still)..

"Saudi Arabia to run out of cash in less than 5 years
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil producer, needs to sell oil at around $106 to balance its budget, according to IMF estimates. The kingdom barely has enough fiscal buffers to survive five years of $50 oil, the IMF said. "
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/25/investing/oil-prices-saudi-arabia-cash-opec-middle-east/

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RE: Who's your fav [s]drug dealer[/s]Middle East ally? - 10/28/2015 3:49:34 PM

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Must be easier to make than meth and it seems...more commercial. Poor man's cocaine. But I am not buying the oil numbers.

They (Saudis) pull in about $12 billion/mo. on oil (10 mill. bbls./day @ $40/bbl.X30) or about $144 bill./yr. with a annual increase in debt of $10 - $12 billion a year. And they need prices at 250 % of that to get along ? Doesn't compute. And we thought QE II needed money ? Maybe the Saudis are slated to buy some super duper F-35's and don't forget the profit-center of the coming new nuke race.

Now if I am missing something and/or my math is bad, then they are simply going to have to follow the US example and hit up Afghan. for some of that heroin poppy business or grow their own. (I think the end-game there for the US vis-a-vis the Taliban is go ahead and fuck the country, just leave the poppies and the pipeline alone unless of course we insist women go to school)

Or I guess, just cut back on oil production and watch the speculators do their thing.

I don't know. I guess it's a good question...why fuck with speed ? Except for maybe the combatants to sleep with one eye open.

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