مندوب ليبيا بالأمم المتحدة: قطر تقوم بتزويد أطراف ليبية بالمال والسلاح وتتدخل في شؤون ليبيا الداخلية
Libya's representative to UN: Qatar is providing Libyan parties with money and weapons and interference in the internal affairs of Libya
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/11/18/382477.htm
November 18, 2011
Tangier - Morocco - SANA
Abdel-Rahman Shalgam representative of Libya to the United Nations said Qatar is providing Libyan Islamists with money and weapons, and demanded to stop it by calling it an interference in the internal affairs of his country.
Shalgam said in a statement to Reuters on the sidelines of a conference in the Moroccan city of Tangier that there are facts on the ground prove that Qatar is providing money and arms to some Islamic parties in Libya, and try to intervene in issues that concern them and expressed Libya's refusal to categorical rejection of such conduct.
Shalgam said he had discussed this intervention in the internal affairs of his country with national authorities, adding that he warned the country of this topic.
A number of Libyan officials spoke recently about the intervention in the internal affairs of a country through the Libyan extend some of the parties with money and weapons and support to the parties at the expense of other parties in an attempt to gain allies on the scene to serve the Libyan foreign agendas.
Saudi royals split on new crown prince
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/210735.html
Fri Nov 18, 2011 5:8AM
Members of the US-backed Saudi royal family have reportedly been driven apart over the appointment of radical Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz as King Abdullah's successor.
Nayef was picked by the Allegiance Council, which is charged with the responsibility of determining succession in the authoritarian kingdom, following last month's death of the previous Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who died in a New York hospital at the age of 82.
Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, another senior royal, has quit the council in an apparent sign of protest to the appointment, prominent British daily The Telegraph reported on Thursday.
"After informing King Abdullah, Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz announced his resignation from the Allegiance Council," read a statement posted on his website.
The 37-member council, which was established by king Abdullah in 2006, is mostly composed of Nayef's brothers and cousins.
Since the death of the conservative kingdom's founder King Abdulaziz in 1953, all succeeding monarchs have been among one of his 37 sons from numerous wives.
The 87-year-old King Abdullah is also suffering from a variety of health issues and has undergone multiple backbone surgeries in the United States in the past couple of years.
For the Saudi monarchy, it's now do-it-ourselves time
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Opinion/Columnist/2011/Nov-19/154546-for-the-saudi-monarchy-its-now-do-it-ourselves-time.ashx
November 19, 2011 01:27 AM
By David Ignatius
The Daily Star
Over this past year of Arab Spring revolts, Saudi Arabia has increasingly replaced the United States as the key status-quo power in the Middle East – a role that seems likely to expand even more in coming years as the Saudis boost their military and economic spending.
Saudis describe the kingdom's growing role as a reaction, in part, to the diminished clout of the United States. They still regard the U.S.-Saudi relationship as valuable, but it's no longer seen as a guarantor of their security. For that, the Saudis have decided they must rely more on themselves – and, down the road, on a wider set of friends that includes their military partner, Pakistan, and their largest oil customer, China.
For Saudi watchers, this change is striking. The kingdom's old practice was to keep its head down, spread money to radical groups to try to buy peace, and rely on a U.S. military umbrella. Now, Riyadh is more open and vocal in pressing its interests – especially in challenging Iran.
The more-assertive Saudi role has been clear in its open support for the ouster of Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is Iran's crucial Arab ally. The Saudis were decisive backers of last weekend's Arab League decision to suspend Syria's membership (though they also supported the organization's waffling decision Wednesday to send another mediation team to Damascus).
Money is always the Saudis' biggest resource, and they are planning to spend it more aggressively as a regional power broker – by roughly doubling their armed forces over the next 10 years and spending at least $15 billion annually to support countries weakened economically by this year's turmoil.
The enormous military expansion was signaled this past week by General Hussein al-Qubail, the chief of staff. Because of "surrounding circumstances," he said, the Saudis would spend more to achieve "the highest degree of combat readiness."
Overseeing the arms buildup will be a new Defense Minister, Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, described by Saudis as a strong manager during his many years as governor of Riyadh. This contrasts with what foreign analysts say was the loose discipline under his predecessor, Prince Sultan.
Saudi sources provided an unofficial summary of the defense buildup. The army will add 125,000 to its estimated current force of 150,000; the national guard will grow by 125,000 from an estimated 100,000; the navy will spend more than $30 billion buying new ships and sea-skimming missiles; the air force will add 450 to 500 planes; and the Ministry of Interior is boosting its police and special forces by about 60,000. The Saudis are also developing their own version of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command.
The doubling of ground forces is partly a domestic employment project, but it's also a signal of Saudi confidence.
The Saudi shopping list is a bonanza for U.S. and European arms merchants. That's especially true of the air force procurement, with the Saudis planning to buy 72 "Eurofighters" from EADS, and 84 new F-15s from Boeing. The rationale is containing Iran, whose nuclear ambitions the Saudis strongly oppose. But Riyadh has an instant deterrent ready, too, in the form of the Pakistani nuclear arsenal that the Saudis are widely believed to have helped finance.
Big weapons purchases have been a Saudi penchant for decades. More interesting, in some ways, is their quiet effort to provide support to friendly regimes to keep the region from blowing itself up in this period of instability. The Saudis have budgeted $4 billion this year to help Egypt, $1.4 billion for Jordan, and $500 million annually over the next decade for Bahrain and Oman. They will doubtless pump money, as well, to Syria, Yemen and Lebanon.
"In outlays, we've budgeted $15 billion a year just to keep the peace," says one Saudi source, adding up the economic assistance to Arab neighbors. But that's hardly a stretch for a country that, by year-end, will have about $650 billion in foreign reserves.
The Saudis speak more charitably of the United States than they did a few months ago, after reassuring visits by Vice President Joe Biden and national security adviser Tom Donilon, and close military and intelligence cooperation continues. But President Barack Obama is seen as a relatively weak leader who abandoned his own call for a Palestinian state under Israeli pressure. The U.S. isn't exactly the god that failed, but its divine powers are certainly suspect in Riyadh.
David Ignatius is published twice weekly by THE DAILY STAR.
تعاون مخرج سعودي مع مغنية إسرائيلية يثير أزمة !
A Saudi producer collaborated with an Israeli singer raises a crisis!
http://www.aksalser.com/?page=view_news&id=009bd52ae311fa85498f09df8c728d41&ar=217139789
Saturday - November 19 - 2011 - 12:27:02
Saudi producer was threatened with death, and the raid on his office in downtown Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, after he produced a music video for an Israeli singer who sings in Arabic, according to the CNN news that a N. America.
He said that the director Ahmed adequate "cooperation with the Israeli Jewish singer originally olive seder in the output of one of her songs entitled Gulf" eyes ", which was completed recently directed the video in Jordan."
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