http://desicritics.org/ Superior South Asian bloggers on Culture, Media, Politics, Sport, Business, and Technology. en Copyright 2006 by the authors Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:22:28 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss BC custom software http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-322452 Very good bd Hey, that is not a country. It is a very large real estate owned by the Saud family. Note that the name of the country is based on their name, perhaps the only one in the world. So long as the US needs oil, nothing will change, Obama or Macain 322452@desicritics.org Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:22:28 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320650 Lomi: ""Saudi will rule the world naturally and tats why all this crap frm US UK Indian media and they better behave themselves before they become extinct."" Usual story: the doctor ordered a pint a day, but oiloholics like you drink too much oil or as you call it, black gold. Go easy on the high density brew.. 320650@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:51:17 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320649 BD, Before you run out of electrons, _The Devil's Game_ by Robert Dreyfus (originally suggested by Neusinger) is a must read!! 320649@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:48:35 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320598 Lomi my brother: what dost thou smokest? 320598@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:53:17 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320597 Hey BD, not to over burden your to-be-read shelf, but I found Charles Allan's God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Roots of Modern Jihad extremely interesting for its detailing of 1857 processes on the sub-continent. Allan does tend to over-emphasize the role of Wahhabists but the book does provide some very valuable information on why so many non-Sunni (both Muslim and Hindu) leaders pulled back even though the British could have been routed decisively. 320597@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:30:59 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320591 Chandra the pakistani's give over their airforce, army and nuclear secrets already to Saudi Arabia. So the question is moot about Saudi access to nuclear technology. It is a fair assumption that Saudi Arabia already has access to the nukes. 320591@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:31:31 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320590 Lomi, thank you for your comments. I presume they were rhetorical :) 320590@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:08:22 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320587 Lomi Wait for Barack Obama. He is going to change how washington operates.He is going to go after Saudi Arabia.............yes we can... 320587@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:48:33 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320586 Dada.. Well written.... i have a hypothetical question- How long by when the Sauds get a nuclear weapon? have you heard of the Paks promising the Sauds to handover their N weapons in the event of an Iranian attack? rgds 320586@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:46:07 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320576 With this stats would a sane person even care to talk abt a economically most backward country called Saudi Arabia? Logically never but its oil my dear brother oil. oil disproves science: "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed it can only be transferred from one form to another form". Here we have oil that can be stored as energy and can create electric power, fuel cars, fuel bombs, fuel missiles. Fly aeroplanes etc. With this amount of magic. Oil is truly a Black Gold, uhhh its much bigger and cud be the biggest discovery in human history and unfortunately or fortunately fr all muslims saudi has the biggest oil. Now by criticsing this potential superpower (saudi arabia) u are only degrading urself. I dare an american president to criticize saudi arabia. He cant, lets face it Americans or Europeans are slaves to saudis frever whether thye realize it or not. Saudi will rule the world naturally and tats why all this crap frm US UK Indian media and they better behave themselves before they become extinct. 320576@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:35:59 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320575 Mr Bhaskar: Have u analyzed US education system? Have u analyzed British History? Have u even had a look at their people? Have u looked at Brahmins of India? Have u observed christian missionaries actions? Accordin to superpowers US and UK: Iran is a threat to world economic stability. Stats say: 1) Germans invaded brutally against the world. 2) British looted worlds strongest economy India. 3) USA invades carefree and UN is their puppet. 4) India is the biggest US and British Ally. 5) European Union aim is to see that Islamic unity is never achieved and they neve attain economic freedom. 320575@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:29:25 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320571 Thanks for that suggestion as well, Neusinger. I am running out of electrons to store my to-be-read pile! :) but yes, i am afraid that is true, the western powers have loads to explain about their support for islamic fundamentalism. 320571@desicritics.org Mon, 11 Feb 2008 04:54:24 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320512 Kim, yes that is a good suggestion. Baer is of course the ex-intelligence agent who wrote the book "See No Evil" that was adapted to the 2005 movie Syriana. BD and Kim another book that I would highly recommend to consider is "The Devil's Game" by Robert Dreyfuss. This is one of the few books that exposes the role of western powers, particularly the British and Americans, in the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. 320512@desicritics.org Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:42:15 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320465 ah! ha, Kim, thank you for the tip, I will definitely get that book. But I still find it very curious that not many people know about it. And more importantly, the reaction that I got was very shifty, so many people do not even want to hear about it. :) ah! well :) 320465@desicritics.org Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:38:48 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320461 BD, there is quite a lot of detail on the Karbala attack in that book. & Given the direction you are researching in, the book I mentioned may be of help. 320461@desicritics.org Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:12:44 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320460 Thanks Saudimedic for the tip, will plonk that book on my to be read pile :) 320460@desicritics.org Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:36:08 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320403 Saudimedic, perhaps you would like to review this book for Desicritics and write about other issues in the Kingdom - mail me and I'll set you up. 320403@desicritics.org Sun, 10 Feb 2008 08:13:40 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320398 I just read a good book that talks about Saudi education and the Royal family. I was suprised to learn that most Saudi's live close to poverty. The House of Saud takes most of the wealth for their large extended royal family. The rest is turned over to a corupt system where fraud and stealing is the norm. The book is called "Paramedic to the Prince" written by an american Paramedic that worked for King Abdullah. I recommend it to anyone who wants an inside look into Saudi Arabia. 320398@desicritics.org Sun, 10 Feb 2008 05:57:42 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320370 Thank you, Kim, for your comment. I am not unfortunately, familiar with that book, but I will definitely check it up! the sources for the article come from my discussions and research in Lucknow where I found out the sheer amount of money sent to Iraq, from there I found out about the Karbala attack from Juan Cole's writings. Mai Yamani's work gave the details on the control of Saudi institutions by the wahhabi's and well, you have seen the WB education report. And then well, I put the stuff together. Cheers bd 320370@desicritics.org Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:23:23 EST http://desicritics.org/2008/02/09/074625.php#comment-320305 hmm, seems like you captured the gist of a third of the book:"Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington sold our soul for Saudi Crude" by Robert Baer 320305@desicritics.org Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:11:35 EST