The dynasty of emirs (1720-1932) and kings (since 1932) of Saudi Arabia.

The history of the Saudis is the history of the creation of a single Arabian state. At the beginning of the XVIII century. the population of the Arabian Peninsula - both the Bedouins of the steppes and the settled farmers of the oases - broke up into many tribes. Disunited and at war with each other, they incessantly waged internecine wars over pastures, over herds, over prey, over sources of water. All settled Arabia was a conglomerate of small and smallest principalities. Almost every village and city had its own hereditary ruler. This fragmentation made it easier for foreign conquerors to seize the peninsula. Back in the 16th century. the Turks occupied the Red Sea regions of Arabia: Hijaz, Asir and Yemen. In the XVIII century. the Persians captured the east coast: al-Hasa, Oman and Bahrain. Only inner Arabia (Nejd), surrounded by a ring of deserts, remained inaccessible to the invaders. It was in Nejd that a new religious doctrine arose - Wahhabism - put by the Saudis as the basis of their struggle to collect the Arabian lands.

Although formally all Arabs professed Islam and considered themselves Muslims, in fact, countless local tribal religions existed in Arabia. Each Arab tribe, each village had its own fetishes, beliefs and rituals. Against this polyformism, the founder of the Wahhabi doctrine, the non-Jin theologian Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who emphasized the unity, transcendence of God, sharply criticized the heretical innovations, especially the widespread cult of saints, as well as the remnants of pre-Islamic fetishism and the veneration of the sacred. places. Formally, he did not create new dogmas, but only sought to restore among the Arabs the religion of Islam in its original Qur'anic purity. In 1744, the ruler of the small Nejd principality Dariya, Emir Muhammad ibn Saud and his son Abd al-Aziz I, were among the first to adopt the teachings of the Wahhabis. the banner of Wahhabism - they subjugated one by one the neighboring emirs and brought the Bedouin tribes to obedience. By 1786, Wahhabism won a complete victory in Najd. In place of many small principalities that were at war with each other, a relatively large theocratic state was formed, headed by the Saudi dynasty. In 1792, after the death of the founder of Wahhabism, Muhammad ibn al-Wahhab, the Saudis united secular and spiritual power in their hands. Their next step was the spread of Wahhabism to the entire peninsula. In 1786, the Saudis made their first foray into the coast of the Persian Gulf. Then these campaigns began to be repeated regularly.

The son of Abd al-Aziz, Emir Saud, who since 1788 was considered his official successor and led all military operations, managed to unite virtually the entire Arabian Peninsula and create a strong state. In the southeast, only the Sultan of Oman, who relied on the support of the British, dared to resist him. In the end, the Wahhabis had to retreat from Muscat. In the west of the peninsula, the war was also very stubborn. The rulers of Taif and Asir soon joined Wahhabism, but the sheriff of Mecca, Khalib, put up fierce resistance to the Saudis. Only in 1803 did they manage to capture Mecca, after which all manifestations of fetishism and idolatry were exterminated here. The Kaaba lost its rich decoration, the graves of the "saints" were destroyed, and the mullahs who persisted in the old faith were executed. In 1804, Emir Saud, who by this time had become the head of the Wahhabis (Abd al-Aziz was killed in the autumn of 1803 in a mosque during prayer by an unknown dervish), took possession of Medina. By 1806, he annexed the entire Hijaz to his state. After that, hostilities moved beyond the borders of Arabia - to Syria and Iraq. Here the Wahhabis had to face the stubborn resistance of the Shiite population. As a result, they failed to retain a single city of any significance. And soon the Wahhabis had to forget about external aggression altogether. In 1811, the ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, spoke out against them. The Egyptians captured the port of Yangbo, and then began to move deeper into the peninsula. In 1812 they captured Medina, and in 1813 - Mecca. Soon the entire Hijaz was conquered. In 1815, Muhammad Ali defeated a 30,000-strong army of Wahhabis at Basal. According to the terms of the treaty concluded soon, Emir Abdallah I was forced to recognize himself as a vassal of the Turkish Sultan and abandon the Hijaz. However, the agreement was fragile, and in 1816 the war resumed. In 1818, the Egyptians invaded Nejd and after a five-month siege took the stronghold of Wahhabitism - Dariya. The city was reduced to ruins, and its entire population fled. The captured Emir Abdallah I was beheaded in Istanbul in the same year.

However, the Saudis did not stop fighting. In 1821, Abdallah's cousin Emir Turki became the head of the rebels. He made the fortress of Riyadh his new capital. After several years of war, the emir succeeded in restoring Saudi rule over Najd, but in May 1834 he was shot dead in the mosque by the mercenaries of Mashari ibn Abd ar-Rahman (a representative of another line of Saudis), who captured Riyadh and tried to establish himself in it. Two months later, the son and heir of Turki, Emir Faisal I, recaptured Riyadh with a bold raid, dealt with Mashari and proclaimed himself the head of the Wahhabi state. However, in 1838 he was captured by the Egyptians, who again took possession of Riyadh, al-Hasa and Qatif. They handed over the throne to Emir Khalid ibn Saud, son of the famous Saud II, but as soon as the Egyptians left Arabia in 1840, Khalid was overthrown.

In 1841, Abdullah II, the great-great-grandson of the founder of the House of Saud, became the emir of Nejd. He was an active ruler, but overly cruel. The Shammar chronicler Dari ibn Rashid wrote of him as a brave man, "who, however, shed much blood and killed many pious people; he was hated, while Faisal was loved." When the latter managed to free himself from Egyptian captivity in 1843, he was supported by many local rulers, and above all by the emir of Khalil Abdallah ibn Ali ar-Rashid. Relying on his help, Faisal overthrew Abdallah II (he was captured and died in prison, possibly from poison) and restored the Wahhabi state. However, he was already far from his former power - the borders of the Saudi emirate actually did not go beyond Najd. After Faisal's death in December 1865, his eldest son Abdullah III became emir. He was a brave, energetic and at the same time strict ruler, who enjoyed the support of the inhabitants of cities and oases. Soon, his younger brother Saud III rebelled against him, a generous man who knew how to win the love of the nomads. In 1870, Saud defeated the troops of Abdallah at Judah, and in 1871 captured Riyadh. Abdullah fled. The Bedouins of Saud sacked the city without mercy. The war continued later, causing terrible damage to the inhabitants of Najd. One of the historians of this era, Ibn Sina, wrote: "The fetters of power were weakened, unrest increased, hunger and high prices worsened the situation, people ate the meat of fallen donkeys, many died of hunger. People were doomed to hunger, death, misfortune, robbery, murder, destruction. In January 1875, Saud III died (either from smallpox or from poison). Power for a short time was seized by the youngest son of Faisal I Abd ar-Rahman. In 1876, he gave it to the returned Abdallah III. By this time, only Riyadh and its environs remained under the control of the Saudis. “The city of Riyadh with its surroundings is all that remains of the Wahhabi possessions,” wrote the English traveler C. Doughty. “Has it become a small and weak principality? the guest hall is abandoned, the servants of Ibn Saud (Abdallah III) leave his fading star... None of the Bedouins obey the Wahhabis?" On the other hand, their neighbors, the emirs of Jebel Shammar from the Alrashidid clan, became stronger. In 1887, Muhammad ibn Rashid took possession of Riyadh and included it in his state. The Saudis had to be content with the role of Alrashidid governors in Riyadh. In 1884-1889. such a governor was considered Abdallah III, in 1889-1891. - his younger brother Abd ar-Rahman, and in 1891-1902. (after the unsuccessful uprising of the Wahhabis, which ended with the flight of Abd ar-Rahman to Kuwait) - the third of the sons of Faisal I Muhammad ibn Faisal al-Mutawwi. This latter did not enjoy any real power and devoted himself entirely to the cultivation of flowers.

The son of Abd ar-Rahman, Abd al-Aziz II, had to recreate the Wahhabi state of the Saudis practically from scratch. His half-century reign became a whole epoch in the history of Arabia. Starting as a homeless exile, a landless emir, he ended up as the absolute monarch of a large state that united most of the Arabian Peninsula within its borders and soon became one of the world's largest oil exporters. The billions of petrodollars that poured into poverty-stricken Arabia after the Second World War completely changed the face of this country. Before others, the heady influence of easy money was felt by the princes of the ruling dynasty. Many members of the Saudi clan in 1940-1950. traveled abroad and got acquainted with the conditions of European life. Returning to their homeland, they began to spend huge amounts of money on unheard-of luxury. Saudi Arabia has gilded Cadillacs and palaces with luxurious furnishings, central air conditioning, gardens, swimming pools and tennis courts. Enormous funds were spent on harems, on toilets and jewelry for wives and concubines, on the maintenance of slaves, servants, chauffeurs, bodyguards and just hangers-on. Corruption of the royal court and the bureaucracy began to take on monstrous proportions.

After the death of Abd al-Aziz II, his eldest son Saud IV became king, and the next oldest son Faisal was declared crown prince. Their mothers were different and all their lives there was rivalry between the brothers. They were very different in character. Saud, who had neither the authority nor the strength of the personality of Abd al-Aziz, shared all his shortcomings to such an extent that he seemed like a caricature of his father. He squandered the wealth that fell to his lot like a real oriental despot. So, the king built 25 palaces for himself (only one of them - Nasyriyya - cost several tens of millions of dollars), maintained a numerous harem, a court of five thousand people, littered with money and sincerely believed that the country's income was his property (though that most of his subjects continued to live in miserable poverty). But this state of affairs could not last long. The country quickly emerged from international isolation, new trends and new ideas began to penetrate even the most backward Bedouin tribes. From the beginning of the 1950s in Saudi Arabia began to expand the opposition movement. This alarmed the Saudis. But the Egyptian and Iraqi revolutions made a particularly strong impression on the ruling elite. Fearing a coup, the most sensible members of the Family began to realize the need for reform. Since such reforms were impossible under Saud, a palace coup had to be resorted to. In March 1958, a group of princes led by Fahd ibn Abu al-Aziz delivered an ultimatum to the king, demanding to transfer power to Faisal, protect the treasury from embezzlement, remove the most odious advisers and equalize Saud's brothers in rights with his sons. The king relented, and on March 31, 1958, Faisal was appointed to the post of prime minister. In June, he accepted the financial stabilization program proposed by the International Monetary Fund. It provided for the reduction of state spending to the level of income, the reform of the monetary system, and the restriction of food imports. The construction of new royal palaces was stopped. All this made it possible by 1960 to improve the economic situation of the country. In the same year, Saud fired Faisal and took over the cabinet himself. But in 1962, after his health deteriorated sharply, Saud had to restore his brother to the post of head of the cabinet, and then declare him regent of the kingdom.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni revolution of 1962 once again reminded of the need for social reforms. All elements of the situation that led to the revolutionary explosion in the neighboring country also existed in Saudi Arabia. It was necessary to mitigate the social contradictions in the kingdom, and Faisal came to the conclusion that for this the government should intervene more actively in the economic life of the country. The budget included a significant increase in allocations for education and health. At the same time, repressions against dissidents intensified. At the beginning of 1963, the main center of the opposition, the National Liberation Front, was defeated, many of whose leaders ended up in prison. All these measures brought the regent popularity and support in society. When King Saud returned to Saudi Arabia in 1964 after a long treatment, it turned out that all the levers of power were already in the hands of Faisal, and his people were in all key positions. The National Guard was also on his side. Nevertheless, Saud again tried to dismiss Faisal. The consequence of this was a new "family" palace coup. In March 1964, 68 Saudi princes demanded from the king that he transfer full power to his brother. Saudi had to comply. On November 4, 1964, he abdicated, and in January 1965 he left the country.

Having become king, Faisal began to carry out the reforms he had long conceived. Entrepreneurial activity has noticeably revived in Saudi Arabia. The state began to allocate significant funds for urban construction, improvement, electrification, and communal needs. The state company took up the industrial development of the country. An oil refinery in Jeddah was bought and reconstructed. The construction of chemical enterprises, roads, airports began. The main centers of the country were connected by automatic telephone communication. At this time, the world economy was experiencing an oil boom. Revenues from the sale of oil have multiplied tenfold. The huge funds that ended up in the hands of the king allowed him to completely change the face of his country in just ten years and make Saudi Arabia one of the richest and most prosperous states on the planet. Social tension gradually subsided, the power of the ruling dynasty was strengthened. Faisal's successors continued his policy.

The current king of Saudi Arabia is Faisal II's younger brother, Fahd. (It is known that in his youth, Fahd was a great sybarite. He visited the nightclubs of Beirut so often that he knew all the belly dancers by name, and in the Monte Carlo casino he lost several million dollars in one weekend. There were rumors about his love affairs legends. These liberties did not please the older members of the family. In 1953, the elder brother and future king Faisal, known for his asceticism and piety, called Fahd home and gave him a severe "dressing down". After that, Fahd "took up his mind" and devoted himself to public affairs. First he served as minister of education, then - minister of the interior. In 1975, King Khaled, who ascended the throne, declared Fahd his heir. However, Khaled himself, who suffered from an incurable heart disease, delved into affairs little, and in fact, all the years of his reign Fahd ruled the country in his place.) Fahd himself was actively involved in public affairs for twenty years. In 1996, due to a serious illness, he was forced to retire and transferred the authority to govern the country to his younger brother, Crown Prince Abdullah.

As already mentioned, the basis of the economic well-being and prosperity of Saudi Arabia is the income received from the sale of oil. (The growth dynamics of these incomes is illustrated by the following figures: if in 1943 the kingdom received only 2 million dollars of net profit from the sale of "black gold", then in 1953 this figure increased to 170 million, in 1963 - up to 455 million, in 1973 - up to 4 billion 330 million, and in the "star" for Saudi Arabia in 1980, the profit was 118 billion dollars!) Their own economy cannot accommodate such colossal funds, so the Saudis invest them in the economy of Western countries, primarily the United States (currently Saudi Arabia is the largest foreign investor in the US). Significant sums are annually spent on the creation of infrastructure and social programs. First-class roads, ports and beautiful cities in the desert were built with petrodollars. Saudi Arabia has one of the best health care systems in the world, and health care is free for all citizens of the kingdom. Education is also free - from kindergartens to universities. The state partially pays for the education of its citizens abroad. Each Saudi family receives 627 m2 of land free of charge and an $80,000 interest-free loan for 30 years to build a house. The entire population is exempt from paying taxes.

But the Saudi ruling clan has benefited the most from the oil boom.

The intertwining of state power with oil production in Saudi Arabia is so great that almost all members of the royal family take part in the development of oil policy and receive their share of the dividends. At all the main posts in the kingdom - members of the Saudi clan (at the moment it has about 5,000 people). The king personally chairs the Supreme Council of Saudi Arabia's national oil company, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, and accordingly has the largest income. So, for example, Fahd's personal fortune is second only to that of the Sultan of Brunei. He has at least 12 royal palaces (only one of them - the Empire-style Al-Yama complex in Riyadh - cost its owner $ 2.5 billion). Fahd owns several jet planes and yachts where the water pipes in the bathrooms are made of solid gold.

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The death on Friday night of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who was considered a supporter of "cosmetic reforms", caused a lot of responses and a small increase, for the first time in a very long time, in oil prices on world markets. However, this death is unlikely to lead to noticeable democratic transformations and changes in both the domestic and foreign policies of this ultra-conservative kingdom, which owns more than 20 percent of all oil reserves on Earth and the main Islamic spiritual shrines, revered by more than one billion five hundred million Muslims of the world. .

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who had been in the hospital for the past few weeks due to pneumonia, died in the capital Riyadh at the age of 91 on January 23 at exactly one in the morning local time. Saudi Arabian state television reported the news early on Friday morning:

– His Highness Salman ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud and all members of the royal family, like the whole people, mourn for the Guardian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah ibn Abdul-Aziz, who left us at night.

"Keeper of the two shrines", that is, the holy mosques of Al-Haram in Mecca and the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, has been the official title of the Saudi monarchs since 1986. From now on, he belongs to the new king - as expected, 79-year-old Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, rumored to be suffering from dementia, Alzheimer's disease and a recent stroke, ascended the throne.

King Abdullah was buried before sunset on January 23, in accordance with Sunni ascetic tradition, according to which ostentatious displays of grief or sadness are a sin similar to idolatry. The body of the deceased, dressed in a simple white shroud, was carried through the praying crowd on a carpet laid on a stretcher, and then carried by male relatives to a cemetery in Riyadh, where it was buried in an unmarked grave without any ceremony. Official mourning has not been declared in the country and flags have not been flown at half mast at state institutions. There were no spontaneous gatherings on the streets in connection with the death of the monarch. Government offices closed for Friday-Saturday weekends will reopen as usual on Sunday.

Saudi Arabia, one of the main members of OPEC, owns more than 20 percent of all world oil reserves, which, after the news of the death of King Abdullah, began to rise slightly in world trading. In Asian trading, the price of WTI oil rose by almost two percent - above $47 per barrel. The price of Brent oil rose by more than two percent, reaching almost $50 per barrel. However, economists at the International Energy Agency have already said that under the new monarch, Salman, they do not expect any significant changes in the oil policy of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh has been stubbornly refusing to succumb to pressure from some of the smaller oil-producing countries of late to cut output to stop prices from falling 50 percent since June last year.

The late King Abdullah received only a formal religious education as a young man. At first he was the mayor of the most sacred city for all Muslims in the world - Mecca. In 1962, Abdullah was appointed commander of the Saudi Arabian National Guard - a position he held for nearly 50 years, despite being secretly ridiculed for his severe stutter. Abdullah officially ascended the throne in 2005, but in fact he has ruled since 1996, as his predecessor, King Fahd, was seriously ill. One of his first decrees from the throne, Abdullah forbade members of the royal family, which has about 7 thousand princes and princesses, to use the state treasury. He also abolished the traditional custom of kissing the royal hand, replacing it with a handshake.

After the emergence of Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s, after the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001, when 15 out of 19 hijackers turned out to be Saudi nationals, and, finally, after the rapid growth in the number of extremely radical militant groups in the In a kingdom that has always been dominated by an ultra-conservative Salafi ideology, the ruling family has come to the conclusion that religious extremism threatens its own power.

- I expect from you and, I repeat, I expect this from everyone - if you know anything about anyone who, in your opinion, deviates from the path of the true faith, uses it for their own purposes and promotes extremism, stop immediately these people and bring them personally to me! - said King Abdullah in 2004.

During his reign, there was a noticeable split in Saudi society between fundamentalists and supporters of modernization, inspired by the examples of some neighboring Arab states. The Arab Spring, no less than Islamic radicalism, has called into question the authority of the Saudi royal family and the monarchy, which has always claimed the role of "guarantor of stability" in the entire Middle East. After the overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the Saudis accused Western countries, led by the United States, of violating written and unwritten "allied obligations." However, the emergence of a new global threat in the region, the Islamic State radical group, forced Riyadh to once again move closer to the West and lead a coalition of Arab countries opposing extremists. However, Abdullah, despite numerous mutual assurances of strategic friendship between Saudi Arabia and Washington, never once allowed the US to use the land of his kingdom, "sacred" to all Muslims, as a base for air strikes against targets in Afghanistan or Iraq.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, commenting on the death of the Saudi king, said that the United States has lost a friend, a courageous partner in the fight against extreme extremism and an influential supporter of the peace process in the Middle East. In the coming days, US Vice President Joe Biden will arrive in Riyadh to express Washington's condolences to members of the royal family. For the sake of attending Abdullah's funeral, many Muslim monarchs and leaders (mostly Sunnis) violated their plans - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah left the economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan interrupted a big trip to East Africa.

Shiite Iran, the main rival of Saudi Arabia in the Islamic world, also expressed its condolences. On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif will fly to the Saudi capital - although relations between the two states are now extremely tense. In 2009, among the classified documents released by Wikileaks was a diplomatic cable in which US diplomats quoted the late King Abdullah as advising Washington to "cut off the head of the snake" - that is, to attack Iran.

Former Israeli President in Davos Shimon Peres commemorating the services of the deceased in the settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, recalls the plan proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002 and approved by the League of Arab States, which provided for the recognition of Israel's right to exist in exchange for its withdrawal from all territories seized since 1967 :

“The death of His Majesty Saudi King Abdullah is a great loss for the entire region and a blow to the peace process in the Middle East. He was an experienced leader and a wise monarch. And he found the courage, in very difficult times, to take the initiative and propose his peace plan. I cannot say that we were ready to accept all the points of this plan, but the very spirit of his message, the strength, will and wisdom he showed made a great impression on all of us.

Forbes magazine estimates that Abdullah ibn Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, the father of over 30 children and the husband of dozens of wives (whom he often divorced so as not to break the rules and not have more than four spouses at the same time), before his death was one of the richest men in the world, with a personal fortune of over $20 billion. Towards the end of his life, the king became, according to his entourage, a supporter of "moderate reforms", including the partial expansion of women's rights and the weakening of state regulation in the economic sphere. After negotiations with the leaders of the clergy in 2013, Abdullah for the first time in the history of the country appointed 30 women members of the 150-seat Shura Council, which plays the role of an advisory quasi-parliament under the Saudi monarch, which he personally declared to his subjects:

“Since we do not intend to isolate the role of women in any aspect of the life of Saudi society, within the framework of Sharia prescriptions and in advance of agreement with the Council of Supreme Clerics, all members of which welcomed and supported our proposal, we made a number of decisions in this direction. The first of these is that from now on women will participate in the work of the Shura Council.

But no noticeable democratic transformations took place in Saudi Arabia under the rule of King Abdullah. In 2012, the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch called Saudi Arabia a "kingdom of repression", where the death penalty, extrajudicial arrests and torture of detainees continue to be applied, there are no political parties, civil society, independent media, freedom of speech and assembly, the rights of foreign workers are violated and religious minorities.

In recent weeks, Saudi Arabia has come under fire around the world for the horrendous sentencing of local writer, blogger and activist Raif Badawi. Previously, he was detained several times and accused of apostasy (for which there is only one sentence in the kingdom - the death penalty), but he was acquitted. In 2012, Raif Badawi, who wrote that Islamic universities in Saudi Arabia had become "dens for dense terrorists," was arrested and convicted in 2013 of "insulting Islam, ridiculing religious figures, undermining security, promoting liberal ideas, and going beyond obedience."

Raif Badawi was sentenced to seven years in prison and 600 lashes. In 2014, he was re-sentenced to 10 years in prison, a fine of one million reais (more than $260,000) and 1,000 lashes for 20 weeks, 50 lashes every Friday. On January 9, 2015, on the square in front of the mosque of the city of Jeddah, in the presence of several hundred witnesses, he received the first 50 blows, after which the flogging was postponed for a long time. certain time according to the doctor's prescription "in accordance with Islamic regulations." Amnesty International, which is fighting for the release of Badawi and the abolition of the sentence, which is called "prohibitively cruel and unjustifiable even in Saudi Arabia, where state repression is commonplace," recognized the Saudi blogger as a "prisoner of conscience."

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The Saudis, Al Saud (arab. آل سعود‎‎) (less often - the Saudis) - the ruling royal dynasty in Saudi Arabia since the formation of the country, which occurred on September 23, 1932. Ibn Saud The state was united in 1932 by Abdel-Aziz ibn Saud, who was a noble polygamist and left behind 42 legitimate sons and 125 daughters. Some scholars state that he had 1,400 wives and concubines]. There is hardly a couple of Saudi princes with only 1 wife and 5-6 children. Basically, they have 10-15 wives and 10-35 children. And the total number of the al-Saud family has about 50,000 members. The ruling house of Saudi has always been strongly associated with the founder of Wahhabism - with the religious "reformer" Mohammed Abdul Wahhab (reformers can really name him only in quotation marks, you can google it if you are interested) - he signed an agreement with Mohammed bin Saud in 1744. The Saudi clan, combined with the religious worshipers of Abdul Wahhab, had an explosive effect. The House of Saud received its wealth and power, and the violent Wahhabi figures received state support that would allow them to spread their ideology throughout the world in the coming decades. Wahhabism (followers of Wahhabism call themselves Salafists) is a sectarian movement of Islam that denies innovations in Islam, music is evil for them, they advocate a strict distinction, segregation of men and women and deny any secular power.
Saudi Arabia before the oil boom, 20th century. The history of the country changed dramatically when, in 1933, King Ibn Saud granted American oil companies a concession to explore and extract oil. It turned out that in the depths of Arabia there are huge reserves of "black gold". In 1938, colossal oil fields were discovered in Saudi Arabia. The king transferred the main rights to develop deposits to the Aramco company. Most of the oil produced went to the United States, and almost all of the proceeds from it went directly to the royal family. However, profits were constantly growing, and the money went to the state treasury. Saudi Arabia quickly became the richest state in the Middle East. The sale of oil made it possible for Abdel Aziz to make a huge fortune, which in 1952 was estimated at 200 million US dollars. Inheritance among the Saudis is not like most dynasties, from father to children, but in most cases from brother to brother, and only then to the eldest of the next generation. The female line is not taken into account. Despite the strict religion, the royal family of Saudi Arabia gives a lot of food to the tabloids and is known for its high-profile scandals: while studying in Beirut as a guy, he was also from Saudi Arabia, they wanted to escape, but they were caught and the guy was executed too. The sad fate of Mishaal was even shone on the film.
Bin Nasser Saud 2. Saudi prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser Saud killed his servant Bandar Abdulaziz in 2010 in London. Bandar's body, beaten and strangled, was found on February 15 this year at the Landmark Hotel in London's expensive Marylebone district. The murder had a homosexual connotation, according to prosecutor Jonathan Laidlaw, the sexual connotation of the attack on the servant is absolutely obvious, despite the prince's attempts to hide it with all his might. 3.Saudi Princess Basma bint Saud, King Abdullah II's niece and well-known public figure, has long defended women's rights. The princess gave an interview in which she accused the al-Saud royal family of corruption. "Princes and princesses bathe in luxury while 95% of the country's population is starving," the princess said. 4.Saudi Princess Maha al-Sudairi, wife of Interior Minister Prince Nayef, bought $20,000 worth of glass and silverware (in sets of 100) this week. "Lucky" store in New York, on West 34th Street. Why in quotes? Why, last year the same princess was involved in the Paris scandal. The store owner complained to The Times in London at the time: “It seems to us that we are alone fighting the second richest person in Saudi Arabia. It’s strange, in their country they cut off the hand of a thief who stole a piece of chl :), and then she comes to Europe and thinks you can leave without paying."
Saudi princess and her lover 5 Playboy and model Patrick Ribbsaert attacked his beloved, Saudi princess Sarah al-Amundi (this is a pseudonym, the real name of the princess was not disclosed). The 30-year-old playboy and fortune hunter met the princess while on holiday in Thailand. Their whirlwind romance continued in London, where the princess rented an apartment. The princess's chauffeur, Sargis Tokatlyan, often drove the couple to prestigious restaurants and nightclubs, and also became an unwitting witness to their quarrels. In a rage, Ribbsaert broke a bottle of cognac and, with a shard in his hand, rushed to the princess. Her chauffeur prevented the princess from being injured. Sargis Tokatlyan rushed to the playboy and shielded the princess with himself. As a result, the driver was seriously injured and had to spend about 4 months in the hospital. At the trial, Ribbsaert energetically denies his guilt and claims that he was defending himself from a "brutal driver". According to the Swedish police, the playboy has already been brought to the police for beating and strangling his ex-girlfriend. And finally, this is how the average Saudi woman "in the light" looks like, and this is how Saudi princesses look like: Princess Amirra, wife of billionaire Prince al-Walid.

Saudi Arabia is by far the largest producer of crude oil in the world. At the moment, the kingdom owns 24% of the explored reserves of "black gold" on earth. The current drop in oil prices, observed recently, many associate, among other things, with the actions of Saudi Arabia in the oil market. Recently it became known that the Saudi rulers coordinated their actions, contributing to the development of the global financial crisis, with the United States and Israel. The reason is that the dynasty of Saudi rulers is connected blood ties with the Jewish dynasties that rule the US and Israel.

Reference: The export of oil and oil products brought the country $310 billion in 2008. Saudi Arabia's main "customer" buyers are the US, Japan, China and South Korea. Saudi Arabia's GDP reaches 622 billion dollars. GDP per capita is $24,200. It has the ability to regulate world prices.

The entire economy of a huge country called Saudi Arabia is based on the oil industry. The latter, it is worth noting, is 45% of the gross domestic product of the state. At the same time, experts have calculated that 75% of all revenues received by the state treasury, as well as 90% of exports in the state, are precisely the export of petroleum products.

The proven oil reserves of the country today reach 260 billion barrels (this figure is 24% of the proven reserves on Earth). At the same time, unlike all other oil-producing countries, in Saudi Arabia this figure is constantly increasing, which is achieved due to the discovery of more and more new fields.

The largest companies are Saudi Aramco, Sumitomo, Exxon Mobil, and many others. .

Original taken from judastruth in Jewish origin of the Saudis
The sensational news was spread by the British edition of The Sunday Times: Israel and Saudi Arabia are secretly doing joint "work"
And here is the material about the Jewish origin of the Saudi dynasty.

Where do they come from and what is their real origin?

Part one

Extract from Saudhouse.com, researched and provided by: Muhammad Saher, who was assassinated on the orders of the Saudi regime for the following research:

1. The belonging of the members of the Saudi family to the Anza bin Wayel tribe, as they claim?
2. Is Islam their real religion?
3. Are they really of Arab origin?

Who is the real founder of the Saudi dynasty?

In 851 Hijri, a group of people from the al-Masalih clan, which is a clan of the Anza tribe, equip a caravan to purchase grain (wheat) and other food products from Iraq and transport them to Nejd. The leader of the caravan was a man named Sahmi bin Haslul. The caravan arrived in Basra, where the caravaners went to a grain merchant, a Jew named Mordachai bin Ibrahim bin Moshe. During the negotiations, the Jew asked them: "Where are you from?" They replied: "From the tribe of Anza from the clan of al-Masaleh." Hearing this, the Jew began to warmly embrace each of those who came, saying that he was also from the al-Masaleh clan, but he lives in Basra because of his father's quarrel with some members of the Anza tribe.

After he told the story he had made up, he ordered his servants to load the camels with food in a much larger volume; this act seemed so generous that the representatives of the al-Masaleh family were very surprised and they were overcome with pride for their relative, who managed to become a successful merchant in Iraq; they believed his every word and agreed with him, because he was a very rich grain merchant, which they needed so much (this is how the Jew began to call himself a representative of the Arab clan al-Masaleh)

When the caravan was ready to depart, the Jew asked to take it with him, because he really wants to visit his homeland Nejd. Hearing his request, the caravaners gladly agreed to take him with them. Thus the Jew reached Nejd in secret. In Najd, through his supporters, whom he passed off as his relatives, he began to diligently propagate himself. But, unexpectedly, he faced opposition from supporters of the Muslim preacher of the locality al-Qasim, Sheikh Salih Salman Abdullah at-Tamimi. A Jew (the true ancestor of the ibn Saud family) preached in the territories of Najd, Yemen and Hijaz, having gone from al-Qasim to al-Isha, on the way to al-Qatif he changed his name from Mordakhai to Marwan bin Diria and began to invent stories about the shield of our Prophet Muhammad (DBAR), that it was obtained as a trophy from an Arab pagan during the battle of Uhud between Arab pagans and Muslims. He said that "This shield was sold by an Arab pagan to the Jewish tribe of Banu Kunayka, who kept it as a treasure." Gradually, by telling such stories to the Bedouins, he raised the authority of the Jewish tribes as very influential. He decided to permanently settle in the town of Diriyah in the area of ​​al-Katif, which he considered as the basis, a springboard for the creation of a Jewish state in Arabia.

To achieve such ambitious plans, he became very close to the Bedouins and in the end he declared himself their ruler!

At the same time, the Ajaman tribe, in alliance with the Banu Khalid tribe, having understood its essence and that the insidious plan drawn up by this Jew was beginning to give results, decided to destroy it. They attacked his city and captured it, but could not capture the Jew, who had taken refuge from the enemies. This Jewish ancestor of the Saudi Dynasty, Mordachai, hid on a farm which at that time was called al-Malibed-Usayba near al-Arid, the current name of this area is ar-Riyadh

He asked for asylum from the owner of this land. The host was a very hospitable person and allowed the Jew to stay. Less than a month later, the Jew killed all the members of the farm owner's family, hiding the traces of his crimes and showing as if the thieves who had entered here had destroyed the family. He then announced that he bought these lands before the death of the former owner and remained there to live. He renamed the area, giving it the name - ad-Diriya, as well as the area that he had lost.

This Jewish ancestor (Mordakhai) of the ibn Saud dynasty built a guest house called “Madafa” on the lands of his victims and gathered around him a group of his henchmen, the most hypocritical people who began to stubbornly say that he was a prominent Arab leader. The Jew himself began to weave conspiracies against Sheikh Salih Salman Abdullah at-Tamimi, his true enemy, who was later killed in the mosque of the city of al-Zalafi. After that, he felt safe and made ad-Diriya his permanent place of residence. He had a lot of wives who gave him a huge number of children. He gave all his children Arabic names.

Since that time, the number of his descendants has increased, which allowed to create a large clan of Saudis, following his path, controlling the Arab tribes and clans. They ruthlessly took away agricultural land, and physically eliminated the recalcitrant. They used all kinds of deception, deceit to achieve their goals, they offered their women, money, in order to attract as many people as possible to their side. They were especially zealous with historians and writers to forever obscure their Jewish origin and connect it with the original Arab tribes of Rabia, Anza and al-Masaleh.

One of the most famous hypocrites of our time - Muhammad Amin at-Tamimi- The director of the modern Library of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia compiled a genealogical tree for the Jewish family of the Saudis and connected them with the Greatest Prophet Muhammad (DBAR). For this fictitious work, he received a reward of 35 thousand Egyptian pounds from the KSA ambassador in Cairo, Egypt, in 1362 AH - 1943. The ambassador's name is Ibrahim al-Fadel.

As mentioned above, the Jewish ancestor of the Saudis (Mordachai) practiced polygamy, marrying a huge number of Arab women and having as a result of this a large number of children; his descendants now repeat the actions of their ancestor exactly the same, increasing their power - taking in quantity.

One of the sons of Mordakhai, whose name was al-Marakan, an Arabized form of the Hebrew name Makren, the eldest son was named Muhammad, and the other was called Saud, whose name is now the Saudi dynasty. The descendants of Saud (the Saudi dynasty) began to kill prominent Arab figures, under the pretext that they had departed from Islam, violated the Qur'anic injunctions and thereby aroused the wrath of the Saudis.

In the Book of History of the Saudi Dynasty on pages 98-101, their family historian claims that the Saudis considered all the inhabitants of Najd to be apostates, so they were allowed to shed their blood, seize property, and the Saudis could turn their women into concubines, like captives. Muslims who did not share the views of the ideologist of the Saudis - Muhammad ibn Abdulvahhab (also has Jewish roots from Turkey) were subject to complete destruction. Under the guise of this, the Saudis killed men, stabbed children, cut open the wombs of pregnant women, raped, robbed and massacred entire villages. And they took the teachings of the Wahhabis sect as the basis of their cruel program, which allowed them to destroy dissidents.

This disgusting Jewish dynasty in every way patronizes the Wahhabis sect, who allow violence in cities and villages under the guise of Islam. This Jewish dynasty has been doing lawlessness since 1163 Hijri, since they named the Arabian Peninsula after themselves (Saudi Arabia) and consider the entire region their property, and its population are servants and slaves of the dynasty, who must work for the benefit of their owners (the dynasty Saudis).

They completely appropriated natural resources and consider them their property. If someone asks questions that are uncomfortable for the dynasty or starts to protest against the despotism of the Jewish dynasty, he is publicly cut off his head in the square. The Saudi princess once visited Florida, USA with her courtiers, she rented 90 suites at the Grand Hotel with a total cost of about 1 million US dollars per day. Can the subjects ask what kind of extravagant trick this is? If anyone asks such a question, then he will immediately be overtaken by the punishment of the Saudi sword in the execution square !!!

Witnesses to the Jewish origin of the Saudi dynasty

In the 1960s, the South al-Arab radio station in Cairo, Egypt and the Yemeni radio station in Sana'a confirmed on the air Jewish origin of the Saudi dynasty.

King Faisal al-Saud at the time could not deny his family's close relationship with the Jews when he stated in an interview with the Washington Post on September 17, 1969: “We, the Saudi dynasty, are relatives (cousins) of the Jews: we do not share the point of view of Arabs or Muslims in general on the Jewish question ... we must live in peace and harmony. Our country (Arabia) is the ancestral home of the first Jew and it was from here that they spread throughout the world.” It was a statement King Faisal al-Saud bin Abdulaziz!!!

Hafez Wahbi, Saudi legal adviser, mentioned in his book titled "Arabian Peninsula" that King Abdul Aziz al-Saud, who died in 1953, said: "Our activities (Saudi propaganda) stumbled upon the opposition of all Arab tribes. My grandfather, Saud al-Awwal, once imprisoned several sheikhs of the Maziir tribe, and when another group of that the same tribe came to intercede for the prisoners, asking for the release of as Saud al-Awwal, ordered his people to cut off the heads of all the prisoners, and offered those who came to taste dishes from the boiled meat of his victims, whose severed heads he put on the dishes! eat the flesh of his relatives, and because of their refusal to eat, he ordered his people to cut off their heads as well.This heinous crime was committed by order of the Saudi ruler against people whose only fault was to condemn his cruel methods and extreme despotism.

Hafez Wahbi says further that King Abdul Aziz Al Saud told a bloody story that the sheikhs of the Mazeer tribe who visited his grandfather to intercede for their prominent leader of the time, Faisal Al Darwish, who was imprisoned in the king's prison. He told the story with them in order to prevent them from asking for their leader's release, otherwise they would suffer the same fate. He killed the sheikh and used his blood as a ablution before praying (not forbidden by the doctrine of the Wahhabi sect). Faisal Darwish's fault was that he criticized King Abdulaziz al-Saud when the king signed a document prepared by the British authorities in 1922, in which the British authorities declare the granting of the lands of Palestine to the Jews, his signature was put at a conference in Al Aqir in 1922

This was and remains the basis of this regime. Jewish family (Saudi dynasty). The main purpose of which is: plundering the wealth of the country, robbery, falsification, all kinds of atrocities, lawlessness and blasphemy. Everything is done in accordance with their religious belief - a fictional Wahhabi sect that legalizes all these atrocities and has absolutely nothing to do with Islam.

Recently, Saudi Arabia has been in the focus of attention of numerous experts on the Middle East, many of whom, noting the increased role of the kingdom in regional affairs after a series of "color" revolutions in the Arab world and Riyadh's latest steps in the interests of the United States in dumping oil on the world market , nevertheless indicate that at the same time this richest country in the Arab world is on the verge of radical changes and even possible disappearance as a state entity. Moreover, almost all analysts agree that the ruling dynasty of Al Saud, which has long been a brake on the path of modernization and reform of the country, is degrading more and more, plunging into all mortal sins and vices and not perceiving soberly the complex political processes taking place inside and around the KSA. And what is dangerous for the whole world is that it continues to encourage Islamic radicalism, extremism and terrorism.

The world's leading sponsor of terrorism

One of the main reasons why the kingdom’s national security threats are rapidly increasing, calling into question the very preservation of Saudi Arabia as a unified state in its current form, is the royal family’s stubborn commitment to supporting terrorist and extremist organizations and groups, through which Riyadh often implements its foreign policy ambitions in the Arab and Islamic world, overthrowing objectionable rulers, planting Salafi-type Islamism and unleashing wars and conflicts in neighboring countries in order to weaken them. In essence, Saudi Arabia itself has already become an extremist and terrorist state, and not only within the country, where society is governed by the harsh suppression of dissent of any kind, from ideological and political to religious, based on discrimination against the Shiite minority, gross violation of human rights and freedoms. , violence and police terror.

The Al Sauds are imposing their vision of modernity on the entire Arab world, doing it by force, which has been open since 2011. Prior to this, everything was done covertly, through the financing of terrorist and extremist movements, the training of ideological and religious "cadres" of Salafis in special schools, the training of field military commanders and militants both on their own territory and on the territory of countries bordering the zones

conflicts. By moving from 2011 to open interference in the internal affairs of Arab and Islamic countries, the KSA simply threw off the mask of a decent state that claims to be the protector of the interests of all Muslims in the world. And Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan have already become victims of this, plunged at the behest and with the direct participation of the Al Saud into the abyss of wars and civil conflicts. The main allies of the KSA are also well known: Al-Qaeda with its regional branches, the Muslim Brotherhood, numerous jihadist groups, Jabhat al-Nusra and, until recently, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, until this structure came out in June this year out of the control of their Saudi creators and masters.

On the conscience of the Saudi rulers are tens of thousands of civilians killed by Salafists, including women and children, and by the most vile and vile methods - from cutting off heads to public eating internal organs in people who are still alive. This alone is enough to bring to an international court in The Hague the aged King Abdullah and his security forces, led by Prince Bandar, now the former head of the KSA intelligence service, for crimes against humanity both within the kingdom and in the aforementioned Arab and Islamic countries, and also for the genocide against the Shiites inside Saudi Arabia, and the Sunnis too. And for starters, it would be nice to put all of them in a cage and take them to places of “military glory”, where atrocities were committed with their money and at their direction.

Moreover, there is no need to look for special evidence. Suffice it to recall that all this is organized at the state level through Idarat hayat al-buhus wal daawa wal-irshad ( organization based in Riyadh) , commonly known as Hayat ad-Daawa , as well as " Front" in Mecca - Islamic World League (Rabitat al-alam al-islami ) , which are the highest military command" of the Wahhabis-Salafis. This is the main financial and organizational mechanism for the activities of Wahhabis-Salafis around the world. They are generously financed by the Saudi government. And it is the Saudi government that appoints the leader of the Salafists. In addition, the Al Saud maintains a family Aal ash-Sheikh (in translation - the family of the sheikh), which consists of the descendants of Muhammad Abdel Wahhab and occupies the second place in the KSA after them in terms of prestige. In fact, the heads of the ministries of justice, religious affairs, the national mufti and the head of the parent Salafi organization Ad-Daawa (as well as persons holding a number of other posts, such as the chief of royal protocol) come from the Aal ash-Sheikh clan. This is the Wahhabi political leadership of the Salafis. While verbally condemning the overly radical Takfiri Salafis, the royal family actually finances the Salafi movement. It owes to the Wahhabis the legitimacy of historical origin, since the Al Saud clan was chosen by them to rule Arabia, and also uses them to oppose the Shia ideas of Khomeinism, which the Al Sauds fear most of all and fear like fire.

Complete moral decay of the Al Saud family

But terrorism is only part of the problem of the royal dynasty. No less serious danger to its continued existence is the extreme moral decay of most members of the Al Saud clan and the so-called princes, whose number exceeds 300 people. Moreover, the highest-ranking members of the royal family are the most decomposed.

In the first place of the vices is sexual debauchery. The king, the crown prince and their close relatives of the highest level, including those in the public administration system, are polygamists, often married to practically still girls or young girls, with an age difference of up to 40-50 years. Hence - numerous offspring, which makes up this huge community of "princes" of royal blood. If earlier the institution of polygamy in Islam served Muslims to quickly increase the number of Bedouin Arabs who formed the backbone of the army of Muhammad and subsequent Arab conquerors, as well as to secure positions in the conquered territories by marrying representatives of their local elites, then in the modern world, when the overwhelming most Muslims have one, maximum two wives, the Saudi rulers use it to satisfy their sexual lusts. Moreover, in the KSA, it is considered quite normal to often get rid of old wives by divorce and marry new, young women. For the Al Saud dynasty, it is quite normal if a "sheikh" in his 65-70 years old marries an 18-year-old girl. And if there are few wives, then there is the institution of concubines, which remained only in the conservative monarchies of Arabia, mainly in Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Moreover, there can be many concubines - sometimes their number reaches hundreds. Girls are bought in all corners of the globe - from blond Europeans to black Africans. Moreover, according to those who at one time were part of the inner circle of members of the Al Saud clan, but then fell into disgrace and fled from the kingdom, the Saudis are very actively practicing collective sex, making love with several wives and concubines at the same time. Relations with one woman "sheikh" or "prince" can no longer be satisfied. At the same time, natural sexual relations with women are also not sufficient: hence the use of oral and anal sex. All this is described in detail in the book by Gene P. Sasson "A princess. The True Story of Veiled Life in Saudi Arabiahttp://www.litres.ru/pages/biblio_book/?art=154457).

And for some, the status of a woman is also important for sex. So, according to stories "from the inside", one of the high-ranking Al Sauds desired the dark-skinned Condoleezza Rice when she was US Secretary of State. They say that for sex with her, the "sheikh" was ready to pay 5 million dollars. Interestingly, after one of his visits to Riyadh, the head of the US foreign policy department got an expensive diamond set. And she herself was an ardent supporter of the development of Washington's strategic partnership with Riyadh. Although, in theory, an American woman politician, and even a dark-skinned one, should have sought to end discrimination against women in Saudi society, and not indulge an absolute monarchy ruled by sexual perverts.

And to the sexual orgies of the representatives of the Al Saud family, other "entertainment" of an absolutely immoral plan should be added. And first of all, it is homosexuality (sodomy). Not being homosexual by nature, many Saudis satisfy their sexual lusts with men, as they are no longer completely interested in women. And they do it in the most perverted form, having read the relevant literature published in the West. It is clear that in their time as Bedouin goatherds and camel herders, the Al Sauds practiced this in the absence of women. But now, when for their petrodollars they can buy almost all available and inaccessible beauties in any corner of the planet, this can no longer be justified by the harsh everyday life of a shepherd in the Rub al-Khali desert. For "active" homosexual Saudis, according to "experts" from inside the kingdom, European men are preferable, for passive ones - blacks, Arabs or Pakistanis.

Another sin that many “worthy” members of the KSA royal family are subject to is pedophilia, which flourishes among the “princes” and “sheikhs” not as a natural defect from birth, but simply a moral perversion from satiety due to an excess of petrodollars. Moreover, both young girls and boys are used. Especially popular are blue-eyed children - blondes from Europe, who are bought for big money in poor large families. But, if you need and really want to, and parents do not go for such deals, then it comes down to just a banal abduction and delivery of children by special planes of the Al Saud clan under the guise of diplomatic passports. Apparently, Washington knows about it, but prefers to pretend not to know. After all, dealing with such a regime where polygamists, sexual maniacs, homosexuals and pedophiles rule the ball is a shame and a threat to fall under harsh criticism of their own human rights structures. So they turn a blind eye in the White House to the "pranks" of the representatives of the "blue blood" of the Al Saud. After all, the main thing for the American elite is the presence of trillions of petrodollars in the KSA royal family, and not high morality.

Yes, even though it’s disgusting to write about it, bestiality is also in use among members of the Al Saud dynasty. Apparently, copulation with animals - from dogs to sheep and camels - is already the only way for some "sheikhs" and "princes" to satisfy their sexual fantasies when sex with people is already tired. We need animals. Moreover, the ancestors of Al Sadov, grazing goats in the desert, also did this. But, they did this in the absence of other ways to have sex, and even 1500 years ago, when the Bedouins of Arabia had moral standards at the level of the Stone Age. This may partly explain the fact that Saudi sponsors do not hesitate to finance armed extremist organizations whose militants massacre prisoners, hostages and civilians in the most brutal way. Animals prefer animals.

Against this background, drug use and total alcoholism among the Al Saud seem like child's play. By banning the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages within the KSA, the royal family is the chief controller of alcohol smuggling worth $3-4 billion a year. After oil, this is the second largest source of income for the “princes”. The main channels for the import of alcoholic beverages are Jordan and Dubai, from where whiskey comes directly in multi-ton trucks. Then a bottle of Black Label, worth $30 in a duty free shop, is sold to their own subjects for $200. They don't disdain anything. Including the drug trade.

Saudi Arabia is doomed

With such a management of the country and in the light of the development of internal processes in the kingdom and around it, it is quite obvious that Saudi Arabia is simply doomed to collapse and disintegration. Al Saud today is one of the few royal families that have absolute power in the country. All posts in the government and in the regions are occupied by representatives of the Al Saud, who are appointed by the king. Today, the head of the dynasty is King Abdullah ibn Abdulaziz Al Saud, and the total number of Saudis reaches 25 thousand people. The current 90-year-old ruler,

the son of the first king of KSA Abdullah was born in August 1924. He was one of the 37 sons of the first king. He received a traditional Islamic education at court under his father, but spent much of his time in the desert with his mother, where he became accustomed to the Bedouin way of life. Abdullah became the new king of Saudi Arabia in 2005, inheriting the title of "Servant of the Two Holy Mosques". King Abdullah was the richest state leader, according to the Forbes magazine rating compiled in 2006, his personal fortune was $ 21 billion. He has a whole "bouquet" of diseases and in fact he can no longer govern the country, often disappearing from view for months for treatment. The second person in the kingdom, Crown Prince Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, was born on December 31, 1935, that is, he is almost 80 years old. He is also the son of the first king of Saudi Arabia. Prince Salman was appointed heir to the throne and first deputy prime minister in June 2012 following the death of his brother Crown Prince Nayef, becoming the third successor to the throne in King Abdullah's years of dying one after another of old age and disease. In recent years, he suffered a stroke that left his left arm inoperable, and in August 2010 he underwent spinal surgery. There were also rumors that he was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

A factor that indirectly undermines the unity of the ruling family is the second generation of Al Saud - the so-called young princes who are mostly over 60 years old. Representatives of this group head the middle level in a number of key departments, occupy the most significant positions in the governorships, the armed forces, the National Guard, and special services, and carry on successful business activities. Having received a higher secular education in the West, the "young princes" are often dissatisfied with the dual course of the country's leadership, aimed at preserving the Islamic traditions of the 17th century as the basis for the existence of the Saudi state and at the same time modernizing, as well as their insignificant degree of participation in state affairs. The informal leader of the "young princes" is Walid bin Talal, a leading representative of the business world of the Middle East, one of the "top ten" owners of the largest personal fortunes. And he is clearly eager for power, but is unlikely to receive it. And the most powerful person among the "grandchildren" - Prince Bandar bin Sultan was recently removed from the post of head of the special services for failures in Syria and Iraq. Under these conditions, it is difficult to predict what will happen to the KSA after the death of King Abdullah. Unless, of course, KSA does not fall apart earlier under the pressure of internal and external factors.

By igniting "color" revolutions in the Arab world at its side, encouraging extremism and terrorism in the region, entering into a sharp confrontation with Shiite Iran and Iraq, lowering oil prices to please the United States and to the detriment of itself, Saudi Arabia received a hostile environment around the entire perimeter its borders - Syria, Iraq, Yemen. Created with the money of the KSA, ISIS has already announced the other day the spread of its jihad on the territory of the kingdom. There was a new outbreak of violence against the Shiites of the Eastern Province. The first significant terrorist attacks have already happened. The situation inside the country heated up. Under these conditions, it is obvious that the ruling dynasty of Al Saud, consisting of the elderly and sick perverts, homosexuals, pedophiles and bestiality, can in no way withstand external and internal threats. The collapse of the kingdom will be the natural end of the rule of the Bedouin Al Saud family, who created an artificial state 85 years ago, relying on Great Britain. And hardly anyone will be surprised.