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Originally posted by nemesis
I used to know a Saudi guy that was studying in the states (scholarship from government). He said the royal family is around 20.000 people and they take the almost %50 of the total oil wealth. He said people are getting really mad at the family, because they are living such wealthy life and not giving a fuck about the rest of the country.
Also, he said the only reason US army is there because Saudi Arabia has a very small army. According to him, the king prefers american army to protect the country instead of a building a strong saudi army, because he knows that once the amry is strong, they are more likely to take over and kick the king out.
The anger againist the royal family is getting bigger and bigger there, and it probally will come to a point that it cannot be stopped.
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actually as it is right now the royal family is spilt and the king being alive is all that's holding it together. the pro US half of the family is in charge of the national army, however the highest ranking member of the saudi royal family that is anti US is in charge of the national guard.
what hasn't been talked about is that the nationa guard has been built up and better equipped than the army. the royal family is raping the country of all it's wealth while unemployment and income has dropped in huge amounts there. at the same time they push their wahabi islam on the people and have a religious police just as vicious as the taliban.
it's going down and saudia arabia is the real hotspot in the middle east. they have interballistic missles, working on a nuke, tons of money and the holy sites. bin laden is aiming to take over there, and when the king dies, it's going to get ugly and that's very soon.