Failed military coup in Saudi Arabia

Posted on August 31, 2008 by Sappho

Saudi secu­rity source told Aafaq news­site that Saudi mil­i­tary offi­cers and mem­ber s of the National Guards tried to thwart a mil­i­tary coup to over­throw army offi­cers loyal to the cur­rent Saudi king Abdullah.

The source said that Major Ahmed Maiad Zahrani, a National Guard offi­cer in the Riyadh backed by a Saudi prince in the royal fam­ily has recruited approx­i­mately 150 offi­cers of National Guards, arrested later for fur­ther ques­tion­ing and charged with conspiracy.

The plan was to over­throw the Saudi National Guards leader, who is loyal to king Abdul­lah and to pre­vent the selec­tion of other mem­ber of the fam­ily as crown prince after the death of recent crown prince Sul­tan Bin Abdul Aziz [who is seri­ously sick].

King Abdul­lah has appointed his eldest son Miti’b as deputy of the National Guards, after dis­agree­ments among the sons and grand­sons of Saudi Ara­bia founder late King Abdu­laziz led to form Bay’ah Coun­cil by senior mem­bers of the royal fam­ily, to vote for the crown prince from three can­di­dates named by the king.

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  5. NDHF Net says:
    August 31, 2008 at 20:56

    Jolly decent report­ing, LB. There’s always been this talk that Pak­istan and Saudi-Arabia would be Cheney’s next tar­gets after Iraq — and now what we got here? First Mushar­raf gone. And now a coup in Saudi-Arabia? A coin­ci­dence? Let’s see…

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  11. Hank says:
    September 4, 2008 at 12:52

    Cheney is actu­ally a Saudi sup­porter since both Pak­istan and Saudi are help­ing US admin­is­tra­tion to go accord­ing to the plan. I believe changes in Pak­istan is the result of recent events in Rus­sia. Musharaf clearely men­tioned that they will not help US in attack­ing Iran there­fore he’s out.
    Saudi have so much influ­ence over the cur­rent US admin­is­tra­tion and it will con­tinue. Pak­istan and Saudi are train­ing and back­ing Tal­iban and other ter­ror­ist orga­ni­za­tions which is actu­ally what US want (or owns!). In my opin­ion the axis of evil is Saudi and no one else. There is a need for a big change in Saudi. Enough of need extremists.

  12. NDHF Net says:
    September 4, 2008 at 14:38

    We, as “poorly informed Finns” lack the exper­tise to eval­u­ate the Saudi scene, but those wag­ing the war are all-out satanists so that sooner than later — if get­ting the slight­est chance for that — they’ll back­stab all their helpers quite depend­less of the present friendly relations.

    In this sense Cheney might be a “Saudi sup­porter”, but only because of not hav­ing had a chance to back­stab the Saudi…

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