Saudi Arabia appeared to threaten Canada 9/11-style attack

[seemslikeadream]

Saudi Arabia appeared to threaten Canada with a 9/11-style attack in a feud over human rights

Alex Lockie



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Saudi state-run media's message to Canada.
@infographic_KSA

Saudi Arabia's state media on Monday tweeted a graphic appearing to show an Air Canada airliner heading toward the Toronto skyline in a way that recalled the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Saudi Arabia expelled Canada's ambassador after an official account called for the release of detained women's rights activists in the kingdom.

Fifteen of the 19 September 11 hijackers were from Saudi Arabia, and Osama bin Laden, the attacks' mastermind, was a Saudi citizen who has family there.

The Saudi account deleted the tweet and reposted another without the airliner.


Saudi Arabia's state media on Monday tweeted a graphic appearing to show an Air Canada airliner heading toward the Toronto skyline in a way that recalled the September 11, 2001, terrorist hijackings of airliners that struck the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.

The graphic warned of "Sticking one's nose where it doesn't belong!" and included the text: "As the Arabic saying goes: 'He who interferes with what doesn't concern him finds what doesn't please him.'"

Last week, Global Affairs Canada tweeted that it was "gravely concerned" about a new wave of arrests in the kingdom targeting women's rights activists and urged their immediate release. Saudi Arabia has expelled Canada's ambassador and frozen all new trade and investment with Ottawa in response to the criticism.

Fifteen of the 19 hijackers in the September 11 attacks were Saudi citizens. The organizer, Osama bin Laden, came from a prominent Saudi family and still has family there, including a son who the bin Ladens say is looking to "avenge" his father.

The tweet came from @Infographic_ksa, an account that had just hours earlier tweeted another graphic titled "Death to the dictator" featuring an image of the supreme leader of Iran, Saudi Arabia's main regional rival.

Saudi Arabia has long stood accused of funding radical Muslim Imams around the world and spreading a violent ideology called Wahhabism. Under the leadership of its new young ruler, Mohammad bin Salman, Saudi Arabia has undertaken several sweeping reforms looking to reduce the funding for and spread of radical ideology as well as to elevate human rights.

But a surge of arrests appearing to target prominent women's rights activists who previously campaigned to abolish Saudi Arabia's ban on driving for women has caused international alarm and prompted the tweet from Canada.

The Saudi account deleted the tweet featuring the graphic with the plane and later reuploaded one without the airliner pictured.
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-a ... ack-2018-8

[Wombaticus Rex]

So glad we've reached the "9/11 Perps Laughing In Public" phase, can't wait until Mossad and BND social media teams follow suit.

[seemslikeadream]

AUGUST 12, 2018 | KLAUS MARRE AND DONKEYHOTEY
PICKING SIDES IN SAUDI ARABIA’S FEUD WITH CANADA

The Sunday Cartoon Op-Ed

Mohammed bin Salman
Mohammed bin Salman brings a howitzer to a Twitter fight. Photo credit: DonkeyHotey / WhoWhatWhy (CC BY-SA 2.0) See complete attribution below.

Sometimes when witnessing an argument, it’s not easy to figure out which side to support. Take the recent spat between Canada and Saudi Arabia. On the one hand, you have Canada asking Saudi Arabia for the release of peaceful human rights activists. On the other hand, you have Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most repressive regimes, completely melt down in response.

That’s a tough one.

To make things easier, an official Saudi government account then tweeted out an image of a jet heading toward a tall building in Toronto — as though the world needed a reminder that most of the 9/11 attackers hailed from Saudi Arabia and that the operation was funded by Saudi money.


In the kingdom’s defense, it later deleted the tweet and apologized for it — because Saudi rulers don’t have a problem with oppressing most of the country’s population but they’d rather not draw attention to their support for international terrorism.

While the tweet was deleted, the other over-the-top responses are still in place. Saudi Arabia kicked out Canada’s ambassador and recalled its own, canceled flights to Canada from its state airline, froze new trade and investment transactions between the countries and forced government-backed Saudis studying at Canadian universities to withdraw.

All of that simply because of this:

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Canada is gravely concerned about additional arrests of civil society and women’s rights activists in #SaudiArabia, including Samar Badawi. We urge the Saudi authorities to immediately release them and all other peaceful #humanrights activists.
7:10 AM - 3 Aug 2018

It’s almost as though Saudi Arabia doesn’t like it when others point out that the kingdom has a dismal human rights record.

Oh well…

But before we get to that, let’s give Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman his due. On some issues, the new force in Saudi Arabia’s power structure has brought the kingdom into the 19th century. For example, women are now allowed to drive. And, as part of bin Salman’s efforts to “modernize” the country, women are permitted to attend sporting events — in a whopping three of the country’s stadiums.

In case you are wondering, the kingdom has a lot more than three stadiums — but when you’re running a misogynistic regime, you can’t really expect men to be in the vicinity of women when they want to watch a soccer game.

And those are the areas in which Saudi Arabia is making progress.

It’s looking pretty bleak in others — both domestically and internationally. In Yemen’s civil war, the Saudis are trying to flex their military muscle at the head of a coalition fighting against the Shi’a Houthi rebels. In the process, they are accused of having committed various human rights violations, and coalition airstrikes have killed thousands of civilians.

At home, Saudi Arabia is no stranger to human rights violations. In fact, it would be much easier to list the people in the kingdom who are not subject to discrimination or persecution of some kind. As a good rule of thumb, unless you are a male, straight member of the royal family, who does not speak out about human rights abuses, you should probably always feel a bit uneasy.

Here are just some highlights from Amnesty International’s most recent report on Saudi Arabia:

Torture and other ill-treatment of detainees remains common and widespread.
Shi’a Muslims are discriminated against because of their faith, and their rights, including the rights to work and to access state services, may be restricted. Earlier this year, four Shi’a Muslims received a death sentence for protest-related offenses. (Speaking of the death penalty, in the midst of this row with Canada, Saudi Arabia crucified a man.)
Peaceful demonstrations are prohibited.
Although reforms may be coming in this area, women need to have the permission of a male guardian (e.g., their father, husband, brother, or son) to get a job, travel, or enroll in a university.
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So here is a piece of advice (for which we would probably be arrested, stoned, tortured, and crucified if we were in Saudi Arabia): If you don’t like people pointing out that your human rights record sucks, maybe you should focus on not being a tyrannical regime instead of sanctioning countries whose leaders point out what is dismally apparent to the rest of the world.
https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/08/12/picki ... th-canada/

[peartreed]

Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman has taken his tip from Trump, that picking on Canada is easy and without serious consequence.

Trump showed the world at the G7 that America’s former best friend, Canada, was a safe scapegoat to belittle for sport, especially since NAFTA was being held up as a tease and Canada was so dependent upon its economic ties to the USA.

The rest of the world took the hint and recognized trade tariffs were the latest Trump tease for manipulating world economies into alignment with American demands, and that old loyalties, agreements and histories no longer held sway.

In fact, Trump has shown a clear preference for authoritarian regime leaders. Power tripping totalitarians are in vogue, the role models and darlings of the new president, the fascist figure heads he emulates and supports with his own regime.

Now Saudi Arabia’s own megalomaniac can follow Trump’s example on a whim, and take umbrage at imagined slights with over-the-top retaliation - without any significant consequence, like the previous inhibition of Canada-U.S. mutual support.

Canada is left feeling bereft and alone in advocating for fundamental human rights, realizing there is a new world order in development that simply disregards principle and former free world alliances. Even 911 is a forgotten historical footnote, except in Saudi Arabia where that terror initiative was inconsequential.

[Wombaticus Rex]

Canada is left feeling bereft and alone in advocating for fundamental human rights, realizing there is a new world order in development that simply disregards principle and former free world alliances. Even 911 is a forgotten historical footnote, except in Saudi Arabia where that terror initiative was inconsequential.

Well, Canadians won't have to feel alone for too much longer -- once Pence is in office, Canada will be part of the United States pretty shortly. "Bereft," though, that...that will probably continue.

Watching a new game of King of the Hill get negotiated outside of US and EU institutions will make for quite a view. The current configuration of the totem pole is decades out of date, and we can expect nothing but chaos and churn in currency markets going forward. This weird-ass state of play will be normal a year from now. The phrase "circular firing squad" sums up how that will play out for most of the competitors.

Most of the drive towards authoritarian leaders isn't Trump pathology, though, it's boardroom utilitarianism. Democracies are messy. Every hedge fund in the world loves a dictator.

[peartreed]

The prospect of VP Pence becoming President is almost as pathetic as catching a compromised and repressed Christian sucking up as the next sycophant to Satan.

Any attempt to conquer Canada would be a cold wakeup call to the wild - the will of the wilderness – where fiercely defended freedom defies relative population odds.

Totem poles are also carved on the strength of a natural core to reflect a hierarchy of acknowledged, esteemed and earned status – not the pile of pretenders preening for position. Totalitarians tend to be as temporary as their token aptitudes for office. What tends to be more permanent, like Canada, is natural human resource living compatibly and in cooperative coexistence with its eternal surroundings.

Even in the deserts of Arabia, or the jungle boardrooms of cutthroat corporations, the pathological predators make the fatal mistake of ignoring their environment until it ultimately eats them. Long term survivors live in harmony with nature.

[DrEvil]

The prospect of VP Pence becoming President is almost as pathetic as catching a compromised and repressed Christian sucking up as the next sycophant to Satan.

Any attempt to conquer Canada would be a cold wakeup call to the wild - the will of the wilderness – where fiercely defended freedom defies relative population odds.

Totem poles are also carved on the strength of a natural core to reflect a hierarchy of acknowledged, esteemed and earned status – not the pile of pretenders preening for position. Totalitarians tend to be as temporary as their token aptitudes for office. What tends to be more permanent, like Canada, is natural human resource living compatibly and in cooperative coexistence with its eternal surroundings.

Even in the deserts of Arabia, or the jungle boardrooms of cutthroat corporations, the pathological predators make the fatal mistake of ignoring their environment until it ultimately eats them. Long term survivors live in harmony with nature.

Have to disagree with the last, bolded bit. Nature is perfectly happy to randomly kill you at any time. Long term survivors are the ones who can accumulate enough wealth and power (like the Saudis) to effectively become immune to a lot of the things that kill us plebs (like nature). There's a reason Monaco has an almost ten year higher life expectancy than any other country.

[peartreed]

Princess Grace wouldn't testify to longevity in the luxury of materialist Monaco.

Even in one lifespan of indeterminate duration, nature is the nexus of all life-giving energies. Artificiality is superficial in every sense.

Some of us see the eternal continuity of many lifetimes as a reincarnated revisitation of natural existence through mankind's follies, all in the process of appreciating natural forces in the formation of our fate, and the recognition of a natural source of instinctive, intuitive, internal bliss.

[SonicG]

Most of the drive towards authoritarian leaders isn't Trump pathology, though, it's boardroom utilitarianism. Democracies are messy. Every hedge fund in the world loves a dictator.

Indeed. States have been so well armed by the (former) superpowers that there are no real internal threats to authoritarian regimes anymore. Keep the economy humming at 7% growth and enough crumbs drop down that the Technocracy can keep steamrolling the planet. This shaking up of the old, outdated world order is necessary for Global Capital, so they are just letting it ride to see how it shakes out while China cruises along, creating a massive Asian Sphere of Prosperity or whatever such that a handful of rich white "bikers" boycotting Harley will hardly even register...

[RocketMan]

Really, the only thing I can muster at this latest outrage by that goddamned, decadent crown princeling Mohammad bin Salman is...

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS FUCKED UP SHIT?

Seriously, this is very fucked up.

[Karmamatterz]

and that old loyalties, agreements and histories no longer held sway.

Behold, the grand past. Let's romanticize all these things of the past and put them on a pedestal.

Full of skullduggery, murder, mayhem, assassination, embargoes, unbridled greed and treaties to encourage war etc etc.....

[DrEvil]

Princess Grace wouldn't testify to longevity in the luxury of materialist Monaco.

Brain hemorrhages and car accidents often have that effect. See also: statistics.

Even in one lifespan of indeterminate duration, nature is the nexus of all life-giving energies. Artificiality is superficial in every sense.

The sun is the nexus of all life-giving energies, a giant ball of matter spewing lethal radiation while undergoing an uncontrolled fusion reaction that will eventually destroy the planet we live on. Oh, and water, which is nice when it's not drowning, flooding or poisoning you.
Nature exists because of the giant murder ball in the sky.

Artificial is just an extension of natural. An ant hill or a bird's nest is artificial, but most people would still call it natural. Where do you draw the line? Humans are natural, so why isn't our ant hills considered natural too?

Some of us see the eternal continuity of many lifetimes as a reincarnated revisitation of natural existence through mankind's follies, all in the process of appreciating natural forces in the formation of our fate, and the recognition of a natural source of instinctive, intuitive, internal bliss.

I disagree with everything in your last sentence. I think reincarnation does not exist as that would require a soul, fate does not exist as that would require some authority to decide everyone's fate (unless you count determinism, which is kinda up in the air atm because of quantum physics), and our internal bliss is just electrochemical reactions in our brains.

I do hope that karma is a thing (which it is not, or Trump would be long dead), as the House of Saud should be in line for a great, big helping right about now.

[Iamwhomiam]

Frustrating to lose a long response just as you're about to submit it.

[peartreed]

Nature incorporates all galaxies and suns and energies in the universe. Ask Mother Nature about your origins.

Energy continuously transforms and never truly ceases. Your form is continuously evolving, as is your energy/spirit.

To understand the perspective I was expressing above, you need to widen your mind while recognizing your inner being.

We are eternal.

[8bitagent]

So glad we've reached the "9/11 Perps Laughing In Public" phase, can't wait until Mossad and BND social media teams follow suit.

We already hit the "Muslims are to blame for everything" from the very same people loudly pushing the "every Muslim terror attack was a false flag to falsely blame Muslims" period. I wish
Mike Rupert was alive to teach us how we went from Peak Oil to Peak WTF.

One would think that Saudi Arabian officials bankrolling the hijackers 2000/2001 early test flights in America would be the biggest news since Deep Throat was outed, but
in this bizarre new post-now period, it was down the memory hole before it was even news.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 38791.html

And just a few days ago Newsweek posted an article about how the CIA and Saudi Arabia conspired to obfuscate all those pesky 9/11 details we've long had suspicions about
https://www.newsweek.com/cia-and-saudi- ... ys-1091935

But 9/11 matters nothing to either the "#WOKE AF METOO YASS QUEEN" hip left or the "MAGA" right wing anymore.