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    Saudi king says 'foreign hands' behind Arab unrest

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah says that "unnamed hands" targeting Islam and the Arabs are behind recent events in the region.

    The king, who delivered a televised address Friday night to a conference of prominent Saudis, did not name any country. But Saudi officials have used similar terms to suggest a connection with Shiite Iran.

    "There were hands that are known to you all ... behind what has happened in the Arab world, regrettably targeting Islam and the Arabs," he said.

    Sunni Saudi Arabia is wary of the wave of Arab Spring uprisings, particularly in nearby Bahrain, where a Shiite majority is demanding greater rights from its Sunni rulers.

    However, the kingdom strongly backs the largely Sunni uprising in Syria against Iran's ally, President Bashar Assad.

     
    • Xerxes  •  2 mths ago
      He best look at his own hands..hypocrite..
    • Bill Hilly  •  Seattle, Washington  •  3 mths ago
      Right Saudis. Arab unrest has nothing to do with your clown empire sitting on oil wealth that could support a billion Arabs, and instead cycles right back into European banks through a family of playboys who act religious. These bozos slam Iran because they hate Shiites, whom they treat like slaves daily, and yet they fund Sunni terrorists that attack their own protectors the USA. Saudi is so morally contorted, it can give you a headache trying to comprehend it.
      • R K 3 mths ago
        Yes. But they have gorgeous horses. Too bad the people are just wild #$%$
      • R K 3 mths ago
        Seriously, your post is one of the most compact, precise, cohesive summaries of SA I have ever read. Have you considered writing a book? Your post is like a professor and I think you should write a book.
      • jimm 3 mths ago
        Thanks for a great comment, you worded everything perfectly, you pretty much spoke on behalf of me as well!
    • Barry  •  Tampa, Florida  •  3 mths ago
      I suppose that the Saudi's funding of radical Wahabi schools all over the Middle East have nothing to at all to with this?
      • dailyobserver 3 mths ago
        Nothing at all. Just more propaganda and lies you are expected to swallow via the government and their propaganda arm, the US media.
      • Moviecynic 3 mths ago
        Good point Barry.
      • M 3 mths ago
        Its not like most all these terrorists are not from Saudi Arabia, in fact they are related to their government, aka same blood lines. People such as Osama bin laden. Who are we kidding here, sending weapons to civilians to kill humans is an act of terror, we are just turning heads out of respect, but the truth is dark, and history has shown shiites to be the targets, and sufferers and not the innitiators of all these crimes. Why shouldnt a country such as Bahrain with a majority of votes, be run by the majority. With all due respects, we live in the 21st century, should people not be free?
    • John  •  3 mths ago
      The root of most terrorism from the muslim world starts in Saudi Wahabbi version of Islam. Most people do not realize Wahabbi version of Islam did not start until the 18th century and therfore is not realy Islam!
      • A Yahoo! User 3 mths ago
        wahabism is heresy and goes against all that true islam stands for. it was funded and used by the british in order to sow unrest within the ottoman kalifate.
        it would appear that this chicken has now come home to roost.
      • Norman 3 mths ago
        The root of Islam terrorism began when that religion began and I for one do not call it a true religion because it is not based on uplifting the soul of man, it is based on man's ultimate submission to both secular and religious authority. The first converts were given a choice, as they are today, submit or die. this is not conversion, it is terrorism , the same brand as practiced today. Nazism was the sanitized white version of Islam practiced by Hitler and we did not call that a religion. Hitler closed the Churches in Germany as being subversive to his ideals, they took the focus away from his policies, he channeled that religious energy into political energy and complete subjugation to the State, the State being, as one French King once said, d'tate est moi. Saladin used an army to spread Islam. The current version uses the commodity of oil as its army and a well oiled propaganda machine which touts religious belief as its motive, but its aim is the same as Saladin's, convert or die from lack of oil.
      • geniusandinsanitywalkdown ... 3 mths ago
        i thought the Saudi King was behind the terrorist bombings (and I am a Muslim and I find that Saudi king to be a #$%$ bag who deserves to be thrown in jail - and as a Muslim American I am disgusted that my president bowed to their king - if the3y bowed to each other, that would be fine, but the US president should bow to no one unless it is mutual). . the king of saudi Arabia should bow before the US president with his knees shaking
    • Don  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      We have our own problems our country has been sold out and the american people have been sold out,and its not looking any better this go round.
      • Norman 3 mths ago
        I keep hearing that we have been as a Country been sold. Sold to who? The Chinese? Israel perhaps? Unless the news has been lying to me, the money is flowing the other way in most cases. I just don't see any goods other than knock offs of stuff we used to make right here. They have a plan up there on Wall Street, they always do. When Japan was riding high on the economic scale those Wall Streeters convinced them to buy about forty billion dollars of property right in the heart of New York, best investment you can make Mr. Japanese businessman. Two years later they engineered a market crash and bought the whole shebang back for ten cents on the dollar. China has got a lot of American government and private bonds in its portfolio, if you got bonds in your portfolio I recommend you sell them because watch for the bond market to crash. China will get ten cents on the dollar for the bonds Public and private and go back to their unscrutable ways of trying to out fox those Wall Street gurus. Watch for the first oil well to go dry in Saudi Arabia. Wall Street will be buying up Saudi oil fields for pennies on the dollar and then move in machinery to extract half as much as we bought from them from those dried up wells. Wall Street has out foxed every venue they've been up against since Wall Street got named Wall Street. They are the ones who figured out how to make twenty two million dollars in one year and pay only fifteen cents on the dollar in taxes. If we've been bought I would admonish the buyer, caveat emptor.
    • green  •  3 mths ago
      The Saudi King should know, his crazed Wahabi's are probably the paymasters.
      • geniusandinsanitywalkdown ... 3 mths ago
        i thought the Saudi King was behind the terrorist bombings (and I am a Muslim and I find that Saudi king to be a #$%$ bag who deserves to be thrown in jail - and as a Muslim American I am disgusted that my president bowed to their king - if the3y bowed to each other, that would be fine, but the US president should bow to no one unless it is mutual). . the king of saudi Arabia should bow before the US president with his knees shaking
      • green 2 mths ago
        Shut up and get out of this country you dirty muslim!
    • Me NotYou  •  3 mths ago
      islamic cultists don't need any foreign hands pushing them into insanity. they are already there. they live for one reason, to die screaming allah snackbar as they kill others, muslims or not. they need to be purged from this planet.
    • Adam  •  3 mths ago
      America, dont buy into this load of dren. We dont need to be in the middle of religious disagreements between sunni's and shiites.
    • C  •  3 mths ago
      Sure...blame anything but your own brutality and corruption.
    • required  •  Denver, Colorado  •  3 mths ago
      15 of 19 911 hijackers were saudi they are no friends of ours napalm cures islam
    • fortziii  •  Vancouver, Canada  •  3 mths ago
      classic example of double standards...
    • Don  •  Dallas, Texas  •  3 mths ago
      We should pull out of the middle east,take care of our own country,and see what happens over there.They thave been fighting each other for thousands of year.I say let them have it,
    • JayP  •  3 mths ago
      Really Saudi king? Then why were you pleading with the foreign Americans to save your kingdom when the locals started protesting you?
    • Proud Liberal  •  3 mths ago
      No your people are just tried of Kings/dictators ruinning their lives.
    • clay229  •  3 mths ago
      "Sunni Saudi Arabia is wary of the wave of Arab Spring uprisings, particularly in nearby Bahrain, where a #$%$ majority is demanding greater rights from its Sunni rulers.However, the kingdom strongly backs the largely Sunni uprising in Syria against Iran's ally, President Bashar Assad."In plain talk they practice sectarianism like the rest of the arab world.They are just as two faced as the rest.
    • Moviecynic  •  Madison, Wisconsin  •  3 mths ago
      Sometimes Americans are too simple. We want to label one group as "good guys" and the other as "bad guys." Are people aware that many Christians in Syria prefer that Assad STAYS in power? That is because they saw what happened to Christians (murder, rape, arson) when the violent mobs took over in Egypt. Even a bad government is almost always better than chaos. Iran is bad. Assad is bad. Al Quaida is bad. And unruly mobs are bad. It is a dangerous game to play when you try to pick winners and losers in that mess.
    • Mort  •  Palm Springs, California  •  3 mths ago
      There is no difference if they wear a robe or loose pants on their cracks.....its still the same
    • conan  •  Kifisia, Greece  •  2 mths ago
      thanks to british creation of the middle east that now they point finger at each other instate of the creator of the middle east which is the british.left many pocket confilect in the region so there be no peace at all specially when they throw the jews from eroupe back yard and left the opium trade in afghanistan.this was the old culture of eroupe.thank again british.i wonder if this drunk king know all this.
    • Moviecynic  •  Madison, Wisconsin  •  3 mths ago
      A nation that does not allow freedom of press and the freedom to practice whatever religion a person wants (or none at all) is a nation based upon fear.
    • Fubar83  •  3 mths ago
      The blame game sounds very familiar.Where have we heard that before.
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