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Epidemic Hazard – Saudi Arabia, Eastern Province, Al-hasa : Two more people have died from novel coronavirus, a new strain of the virus similar to the one that caused SARS

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May 13, 2013

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New SARS-like virus can probably pass person-to-person

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May 13 – New SARS-like virus can probably pass person-to-person with Saudi Arabia having the biggest cluster of cases. Marie-Claire Fennessy reports.

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Updated: Sunday, 12 May, 2013 at 15:47 UTC
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Two more people have died from novel coronavirus, a new strain of the virus similar to the one that caused SARS, in an outbreak in al-Ahsa region of Saudi Arabia, the deputy health minister for public health said on Sunday. Ziad Memish said that in the latest cluster of infections, 15 cases had been confirmed, and nine of those patients had died.

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Panic grips Saudis amid fears of SARS-like virus

May 13, 2013 05:03 PMAgence France Presse

A Saudi health ministry official visits patients infected with a new SARS-like virus at a hospital in the eastern Saudi province of al-Ahsaa on May 13, 2013. AFP PHOTO/STRA Saudi health ministry official visits patients infected with a new SARS-like virus at a hospital in the eastern Saudi province of al-Ahsaa on May 13, 2013. AFP PHOTO/STRRIYADH: Panic gripped Saudis in the country’s east on Monday, where most cases of the deadly Coronavirus have been detected, witnesses said, as the death toll from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom hit 15.

Scores of people have reported to the emergency services at hospitals in the city of Al-Ahsa in Eastern Province, after showing even the slightest signs of a fever.

“I felt the symptoms of a cold, accompanied by a fever,” a young man told AFP by telephone from one hospital where he was admitted and placed in quarantine.

“I came to hospital. The symptoms disappeared by the end of the day, but I am still kept in a quarantine with other patients, which scares me,” he said, asking to remain anonymous.

All cases admitted to hospitals in Al-Ahsa region have been placed in isolation, Saudi authorities said.

Fifteen of the 24 people who have contracted the Coronavirus in Saudi Arabia Since August have died, the kingdom’s health minister Abdullah al-Rabia said on Sunday.

A total of 13 cases have been detected in the King Fahd hospital, in Al-Ahsa.

The minister said on Sunday that three new suspected cases had been identified.

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Virologist: Coronavirus will cause an epidemic but docs are better prepared this time

May 13, 2013 11:21 am by

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CAIRO (Reuters) – The doctor who discovered a new SARS-like virus says it will probably trigger an epidemic at some point, but not necessarily in its current virulent form.

The new strain of coronavirus (nCoV) that Ali Mohamed Zaki found last year, related to one that caused the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, has killed at least 18 people in the Middle East and Europe.

On Sunday, the World Health Organization said it seemed likely the new virus, which can cause coughing, fever and pneumonia, could be passed between humans, but only after prolonged, close contact.

Zaki, an Egyptian virologist who identified the new virus last June in a patient at the hospital where he was working in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, noted in a telephone interview on Monday that no one else at that hospital had been infected at the time.

More recently, there has been a cluster of cases in a hospital in Hofuf in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern province, as well as a case of transmission between two patients sharing a hospital room in France.

Zaki, now working at Ain Shams university in Cairo, said the virus was probably mutating. “From what is going on, it seems it is going step-by-step to become more easily transmitted,” he told Reuters.

But he said doctors and authorities were in a better position to deal with an outbreak than they had been with SARS because the new virus had been identified relatively early:

“Now we have the virus before the epidemic happened – and I think it will happen – and we have tools to diagnose it.”

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Epidemic Hazard – Saudi Arabia, Eastern Province, Al-hasa : UPDATE

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May 10, 2013

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Updated: Monday, 06 May, 2013 at 02:42 UTC
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As a follow up to the most recently reported 10 case cluster of nCOV in Alhasa in the Eastern Province of KSA. Our investigation is still ongoing and we picked up 3 more cases:

Case 11: 62 year old female with multiple comorbidities. Start of symptoms [19 Apr 2013] and deceased [3 May 2013]
Case 12: 71 year old male with multiple comorbidities. Start of symptoms [15 Apr 2013], deceased [3 May 2013]
Case 13: 58 year old female with comorbidities. Start of symptoms [1 May 2013] and currently ventilated in critical but stable condition.

So far there is no apparent community transmission and transmission seem linked to one HCF health care facility.

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Updated: Monday, 06 May, 2013 at 03:04 UTC
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Saudi Arabia’s health ministry has reported three novel coronavirus cases, including two fatalities, bringing the total number of infections up to 13 since the outbreak of the virus in the kingdom. Coronavirus infects respiratory system, and makes up 15 percent of viruses that cause human flu, the ministry said in a release. It said this type of viruses is new and that was why there is no reliable information on its transmission or even required vaccination. But, the ministry reassured that the number of coronavirus cases is still very limited compared to other flu outbreaks. It said it is closely monitoring the situation in the kingdom and taking all necessary precautions in handling patients and those having close contacts with them in line with local and world health directives.

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Updated: Monday, 06 May, 2013 at 07:44 UTC
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The number of infected due to the new SARS-like novel coronavirus in Saudi Arabia have jumped to 13 cases, of which seven have already died. First reported to the attention of the World Health Organization last Wednesday, health authorities said five of those who had earlier died have not travelled abroad, arousing suspicions and theories the infections could have originated right within the country’s health-care facilities. “After questioning relatives, it turned out that none of these people had been abroad before being infected,” Dr Ziad Mimish, who heads the health ministry’s disease prevention unit. First identified September 2012 in the Middle East, the global count for the new SARS-like novel coronavirus is now 30 cases. Of those, 18 people have died. Its first fatality was a Saudi man who died in June 2012 due to a mysterious and severe pneumonia. However, the first known cases of the new infection occurred as early as April 2012, in a cluster of 11 illnesses in a hospital in Jordan. A member of the same virus family as SARS, the new coronavirus has the ability to spread from person-to-person. This was confirmed when on Friday, Saudi authorities said one of those who got infected was a family member of one of the original seven who had died.

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Updated: Tuesday, 07 May, 2013 at 02:38 UTC
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A new SARS-like virus has killed two more people in Saudi Arabia, taking the number of deaths from the coronavirus that the kingdom has announced to seven in one week, the health ministry said. “The health ministry has announced that three infections by the new coronavirus have been registered during the past days in Al-Ahsaa. Two of the victims have died while the third is in a stable condition,” state news agency SPA said late Sunday. The report did not identify the nationality of the latest victims. On Wednesday, the health ministry announced five Saudis recently died of the SARS-like virus and that two more were being treated in an intensive care unit. The World Health Organization said on Friday that three new cases of the virus were detected in Saudi Arabia. The outbreak has occurred in the oil-rich Red Sea region of Al-Ahsaa, which is near Bahrain and Qatar. The ministry says 13 infections have been “recently” registered in the kingdom.

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Updated: Thursday, 09 May, 2013 at 14:27 UTC
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The investigation of the recent cluster in Alhassa (Al-Hasa or Al-Ahsa), KSA is still ongoing. Actions implemented and fully applied by 1 May 2013 have been effective to date in preventing NEW cases related to this cluster from emerging. But in-depth look back and search among contacts of earlier reported cases and repeat testing of suspected cases revealed 2 new cases yesterday (8 May 2013):

- Case 14: 48-year-old male with multiple comorbidities. Start of symptoms 29 Apr 2013 and confirmed by lab testing. He is in stable condition in hospital.
- Case 15: 58-year-old male with comorbidity. Start of symptoms 6 Apr 2013. His repeat testing was positive and he fully recovered and was discharged on 3 May 2013.

The investigation is ongoing and more details will be released as they arise.

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Updated: Friday, 10 May, 2013 at 03:37 UTC
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Authorities in Saudi Arabia have found two more people who were infected with the new coronavirus in a large cluster of cases in the eastern portion of the country. The two new cases, reported Thursday, bring the total to date of that al Hofuf cluster to 15 infections. Seven have been fatal. One of the newly reported cases became ill on April 6, which at this point is the earliest onset date known for any of the infections in this cluster. Though it is still not clear if these cases are all part of a chain of person-to-person spread, it does suggest the new virus has been infecting people in al Hofuf for more than a month. The new cases were reported publicly by the country’s deputy health minister, Dr. Ziad Memish, who posted a short update on the outbreak on the Internet-based disease surveillance system, ProMED.

Memish said the two people were not newly infected but rather cases that were detected by going back through records and tracing people who had been in contact with known cases. But his ProMED report did not say if these people are related to, or had contact with, any of the other cases in the cluster. And while the official Saudi line has been that all the cases have been linked to a dialysis clinic at al-Moosa Hospital, Memish’s post made no mention of these cases having had care at that facility. The new cases are both men and are both alive. Both men were reported to have had pre-existing medical conditions. One, a 48-year old, started to have symptoms on April 29. He is in stable condition in hospital. The other is a 58-year-old man who had symptom onset on April 6. Memish said he has recovered completely and was discharged from hospital on May 3. The al Hofuf cluster is the largest to date with the new coronavirus and it is linked to one or more health-care facilities. That feature of the outbreak raises red flags for infectious disease experts because health-care workers and hospital patients are often the sentinel cases when a new pathogen begins to spread.

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Updated: Saturday, 11 May, 2013 at 04:38 UTC
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Saudi health authorizes say two new cases of infection with a deadly new respiratory virus related to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) have been found in the country’s eastern region of al-Ahsa. Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health announced on Friday that a 58-year-old man confirmed to have contracted the virus. He was treated and discharged from hospital on May 8. The other patient was a 42-year-old man, who is still under careful treatment at hospital with a stable condition. Fifteen people in Saudi Arabia have been infected by the coronavirus virus, with 7 deaths. The novel coronavirus virus, also known as nCoV-EMC, is a cousin of SARS. The virus first emerged in the Middle East, and was discovered on September 2012 in a Qatari man who had recently traveled to Saudi Arabia. Since September 2012, the World Health Organization has been informed of 30 confirmed cases of the virus, and 18 of the patients have died. Cases have been reported in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, Britain and Germany, and health officials have said the virus has likely already spread between people in some circumstances. Health authorities are trying to find out how humans are contracting and spreading the virus and what the best remedy to treat it is.

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UPDATED 4/24/13: Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi: Boston bombing ‘person of interest’ has 6 Saudi ‘terrorists’ in family, 5 more are in Gitmo. Visited by Michelle Obama prior to deportation & after Boston bombing | Global Dispatch

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April 25, 2013

Reblogged from:  The Grey Enigma

April 24, 2013 

Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi in the hospital.

UPDATED 5AM EST Apr 24, 2013:

Confirmation that Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi, the Saudi national and initial “person of interest,” is indeed being deported this week now is spreading across the Internet. More details are emerging this weekend as Arabic sources and Saudi papers themselves are confirming “rumors” swirling in the US. (more at bottom)

Moreover, the Saudi papers are detailing the visit by the Obamas, especially Michelle to the hospital and this man. The “rumors” of the President meeting with Saudi officials in the hospital just prior to his “approved deportation” is a bragging right in their press.

More notable is the assertions that Abdul Rahman Ali Al-Harbi is free an clear of terrorist ties, when in fact over 10 names from his clan are already linked to Al-Qaeda.

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Michelle Obama visits Al-Harbi in Boston Hospital? Image source and accuracy unknown

Many from Al-Harbi’s clan are entrenched in terrorism and are members of Al-Qaeda as identified by the Islamic governments.

Out of a list of 85 terrorists listed by the Saudi government shows several of Al-Harbi clan to have been active fighters in Al-Qaeda:

  • #15 Badr Saud Uwaid Al-Awufi Al-Harbi
  • #73 Muhammad Atiq Uwaid Al-Awufi Al-Harbi
  • #26 Khalid Salim Uwaid Al-Lahibi Al-Harbi
  • #29 Raed Abdullah Salem Al-Thahiri Al-Harbi
  • #43 Abdullah Abdul Rahman Muhammad Al-Harbi (leader)
  • #60 Fayez Ghuneim Humeid Al-Hijri Al-Harbi [Source]

Then you have Al-Harbi clan members in Gitmo:

  • Salim Salman Awadallah Al-Sai’di Al-Harbi
  • Majid Abdullah Hussein Al-Harbi
  • Muhammad Abdullah Saqr Al-Alawi Al-Harbi
  • Ghanem Abdul Rahman Ghanem Al-Harbi
  • Muhammad Atiq Uwaid Al-Awfi Al-Harbi [Source]

There are specific Saudi clans that are rife with members of Al-Qaeda, which has fueled critics questions the hundred thousand student visas are issued to these and how ICE officials seem clueless to make the connection with the clans when it comes to terrorism.

The BBC reported Khaled Alharbi was married to the daughter of al-Qaida’s number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri. He reportedly appeared with bin Laden in a video praising the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Another top al-Qaida operative is Adel Radi Saqr al-Wahabi al-Harbi, a Saudi national identified by the State Department as “a key member of an al-Qaida network operating in Iran.”

The State Department has offered a multimillion-dollar reward for the capture of Abdel Alharbi, saying he is an Iran-based al-Qaida facilitator who serves as the deputy to Muhsin al-Fadhl, who runs al-Qaida’s Iran network.

At a site called Sabq, Alharbi’s father talks about how a member of the Aldawsari clan – Ali Aldawsari – visited his son in the hospital. Remember what we wrote about Khalid Aldawsari here:

 

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The Evidence–Saudi National – TheBlazeTV – The Glenn Beck Radio Program – 2013.04.24

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April 25, 2013


Published on Apr 24, 2013

Glenn reads the evidence on the Saudi national that shows that Department of Homeland Security’s Janet Napolitano is lying about the Saudi national, and broke many important particulars regarding this third suspect in the Boston Islamist Terrorist Attacks of 4/15/2013.

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The Saudi Arabian Intrigue Continues : Glenn Beck Spills What He Knows About Saudi National Deportation On Air

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April 23, 2013

Glenn Beck Reveals More about Saudi National

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Published on Apr 22, 2013

Earlier today on his radio program, Glenn Beck, revealed more information about the Saudi national that was a suspect in the Boston bombings last week.

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Exclusive: Key Congressmen Request Classified Briefing on Saudi ‘Person of Interest’ in Boston Bombing

Apr. 21, 2013 11:13pm

House Committee on Homeland Security Requests More Info on Saudi National From Napolitano

(Photo courtesy of the House Committee on Homeland Security)

The letter reads:

We are writing to request a classified briefing on Department of Homeland Security information and actions related to the case of the original person of interest in the terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon on Monday, April 22, 2013.

On Thursday, April 18th, you testified before the Committee on Homeland Security and responded to a question related to this individual’s immigration status by saying that you “were unaware of anyone being deported for national security concerns at all related to Boston.”  However, media reports have continued to raise concerns about this individual and adjustments that may have been made to his immigration status, including possible visa revocation and terrorist watch-listing, in the days following the bombing.

We request the Department provide a detailed overview of the records associated with this individual to include his law enforcement and immigration records prior to April 15, 2013, as well as his current status.  We request briefers from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection.

We appreciate your immediate attention to this issue and anticipate your prompt reply.

The committee says it has copies of the original deportation order, and has confirmed to TheBlaze and several other media outlets that the facts are as we reported last week.

Glenn Beck will break more news about the story during his Monday radio and television broadcasts.

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US Congressmen Follow Up on Glenn Beck’s Boston Bombings ‘Saudi National’ Theory

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By Sarah Rae Fruchtnicht, Mon, April 22, 2013

The House Committee on Homeland Security has requested more information from Janet Napolitano on the Saudi national who was named the initial “person of interest” in the Boston bombings.

The committee formally requested a classified briefing from Napolitano on April 19, according to the letter published by TheBlaze.

This original suspect, named Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi, was reportedly set to be deported on Tuesday, according to Sean Hannity’s Fox News program. Alharbi was supposedly in violation of section 212 3B of the Immigration and Nationality Act, citing “security and related grounds” and “terrorist activities.”

Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-South Carolina, expressed concerns that the man, who was here on a student visa, was being deported “due to national security concerns.” The full exchange appears on YouTube.

Napolitano responded that she was not aware of “anyone who is being deported for national concerns at all related to Boston. I don’t know where that rumor come[s] from.”

“I’m not saying it’s related to Boston, but he is being deported,” Duncan continued.

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Janet Napolitano refuses to answer questions about the deportation of Saudi national 04/18/13

Published on Apr 18, 2013

Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano is questioned by Congressman Jeff Duncan about the detainment and deportation of a 20 year old Saudi national in respect to the Boston marathon bombing

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Bomber involved in plot to attack US-bound jet was working as an informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA

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April 1, 2013

Hmmmm,  very  interesting development and  of  course  I  had  not hear d  a peep from the MSM.  Or  was  it  just   that  I  missed it ?

It  makes  you   wonder  how  they  will explain  this.  Was  it t e  US that  planned a  false  flag to  justify  all the  killing  an  warmongering. 

Was  it  Saudi Arabia again involved  in a terror  plot  against the  US?

Were  they  working  together   to  create  a false  flag  to  facilitate  the erosion of  our Rights  and the destruction of the  Constitution?

Rahm  Emmanuel  said  ” Never  let a  good  crisis  go to waste”.  I  supose  if  one  does  not  occur  on its  own  then  in their  twisted  minds  it is  perfectly  acceptable to  create one…….Reminds  me  of  another false  flag  that  led to  all these illegal  wars.  Lies ,  murder, genocide all  under the  guise  of  defense  of our  Nation,   A  War  on Terror   that  is being  perpetrated  by the  real  Terrorists and  the  subjugation and  destruction  of this Nation.

I hope everyone is paying  attention, because  if things  continue the  way  they  are  that  final  exam is  going to  be a  doozie!!

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Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 24-year-old who tried to blow up a plane using an underwear bomb on Christmas Eve, 2009, entered a plea of guilty today in Federal Court a day after testimony began at his trial began. The underwear bomber, who has been linked to Al Qaeda, was unapologetic for his actions.
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ABC News from a video produced by al Qaeda, accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and others in his training class fire weapons at a desert camp in Yemen

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Underwear bomber’ was working for the CIA

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‘Underwear bomber’ involved in a plot to attack jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with the CIA, it has emerged. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

A would-be “underwear bomber” involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged.

The revelation is the latest twist in an increasingly bizarre story about the disruption of an apparent attempt by al-Qaida to strike at a high-profile American target using a sophisticated device hidden in the clothing of an attacker.

The plot, which the White House said on Monday had involved the seizing of an underwear bomb by authorities in the Middle East sometime in the last 10 days, had caused alarm throughout the US.

It has also been linked to a suspected US drone strike in Yemen where two Yemeni members of al-Qaida were killed by a missile attack on their car on Sunday, one of them a senior militant, Fahd Mohammed Ahmed al-Quso.

But the news that the individual at the heart of the bomb plot was in fact an informer for US intelligence is likely to raise just as many questions as it answers.

Citing US and Yemeni officials, Associated Press reported that the unnamed informant was working under cover for the Saudis and the CIA when he was given the bomb, which was of a new non-metallic type aimed at getting past airport security.

The informant then turned the device over to his handlers and has left Yemen, the officials told the news agency. The LA Times, which first broke the news that the plot had been a “sting operation”, said that the bomb plan had also provided the intelligence leads that allowed the strike on Quso.

Earlier John Brennan, Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser and a former CIA official, told ABC’s Good Morning America that authorities are “confident that neither the device nor the intended user of this device pose a threat to us”.

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Saudi Arabia claims to being a supporter of democracy. The lies unravel as they continue to show their true colors. While US turns a blind eye

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March 25, 2013

Saudi Arabia threatens to block Skype, WhatsApp, Viber

Monday, 25 March 2013
Saudi Arabia’s telecommunications regulator has threatened to block messaging applications, such as Skype, WhatsApp and Viber. (Al Arabiya)

Saudi Arabia’s telecommunications regulator has threatened to block messaging applications, such as Skype, WhatsApp and Viber if telecommunication companies fail to monitor the applications.

The Saudi Telecommunications and Information Technology Commission urged telecom companies to examine possible ways for security oversight with companies who own those ‘apps.’

The commission gave the telecom companies until the end of this week to respond. In case they say it is impossible to monitor the applications, the commission said it will consider procedures to block them altogether in the kingdom.

The Saudi telecommunication watchdog had addressed a similar case with BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) in 2010 when it ordered local telecommunication companies to suspend BlackBerry messenger services.

The Kingdom demanded access to the Blackberry’s encrypted network. The Saudi regulatory commission reportedly refused to comment about its imminent decision.

Sulaiman Mirdad, the commission’s deputy governor, told the Okaz daily newspaper that the commission has named Sultan al-Malik as its spokesman to answer the media’s questions.

But the paper reported that several attempts were made to reach al-Malik by phone but he did not respond.

Saudi online users took to twitter to mock the commission’s anticipated decision, with some asking for the internet service to be cut off altogether. Others wrote that the next target for government control will be the oxygen that people breathe.

 

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Al Saud remains hostile towards democracy and human rights: Zayd al-Isa

Tue Jan 1, 2013 4:30PM GMT
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Interview with Zayd al-Isa

[Saudi Arabia] is afraid of everything. It’s actually the country which is the number one enemy of democracy and human rights. They basically do not exist in that country.”

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The Al Saud family of Saudi Arabia has dealt heavy crackdowns on peaceful protesters who demand democracy and human rights, an analyst tells Press TV.

In the background to this, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province to protest against Saudi forces who opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators, killing a teenager and with scores injured.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Zayd al-Isa, a Middle East expert from London, to further discuss the issue. The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: In a country that claims to be a supporter of democracy and human rights, we see suppression of the voices of dissent and a heavy-handed response to those who stage demonstrations there. Just why does Saudi Arabia prevent the voices of dissent from being heard? What is it afraid of?

Al-Isa: It’s afraid of everything. It’s actually the country which is the number one enemy of democracy and human rights. They basically do not exist in that country.

All those people who are gathering, they are simply asking for legitimacy, for justice, for human rights, political reform and democratic change.

But now, because of the ferocious and murderous onslaught which has been unleashed by the authorities, those people are demanding the downfall of the Al Saud regime which is absolutely incapable as is considerably clear from their actions of facing any concrete or tangible steps towards reform.

We’ve seen that they always resort to brutal, ruthless, murderous crackdowns against peaceful demonstrators – those people are simply peaceful protesters.

But I do believe that those murderous and ferocious crackdowns have spectacularly backfired. It has spectacularly failed in derailing or unnerving those people from taking to the streets.

We’ve seen those protests gathering momentum, gathering face.

A heavy-handed approach has simply backfired and galvanized more support for those protests. They actually have bolstered the position of the protesters. Even those people who did not participate at the beginning by sitting on their hands have now joined in. You can see now that the numbers are intensifying and the protests are escalating.

We’ve seen [them] trying to bribe off the people, issuing stern warning against protests. Even the Wahhabi Salafis institutions said that those protests are anti-Islamic.

The mufti of Saudi Arabia has said that they are simply a bunch of prisoners and outsiders who hell-bent on destabilizing the regime. The interior minister has called those people terrorists…

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Jailing Saudi rights activists, clear HR violation: Iran MP

Saudi women hold pictures of jailed activists during a protest rally to demand the release of all political prisoners. (File photo)

Saudi women hold pictures of jailed activists during a protest rally to demand the release of all political prisoners. (File photo)
Iranian lawmaker Mohammad-Saleh Jokar has condemned Saudi Arabia for dissolution of a human rights group and handing down heavy jail sentences to its members.

“The international community must be vigilant of Al Saud’s crackdown on human rights organizations in the country,” Jokar, who is also member of Iran Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said on Wednesday.

On Saturday, Riyadh criminal court dissolved the Saudi Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA), with the judge saying the group had failed “to obtain authorization.”

Referring to the court order as a clear violation of human rights, the lawmaker noted that governments devoid of popular support have to resort to repression and intimidation to maintain their authority.

“Legislative and judicial institutions of the Al Saud regime are ailing, as they are only after protecting the [Al Saud] regime rather than the interests of the people of the country, and the product of such a regime will certainly not be human rights and democracy,” the lawmaker added.

The Riyadh court also upheld a six-year jail sentence for Abdullah al-Hamed, an ACPRA activist, and increased his sentence by five more years.

Hamed has also received an 11-year travel ban, which will prevent him from leaving Saudi Arabia for a little over a decade after his release from prison.

Mohammed Gahtani, another group member, was also given 10 years in prison and a 10-year travel ban.

The two men were convicted of breaching the kingdom’s cyber crime law by using Twitter to lash out at the country’s political system and social life.

PG/SS

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Full Disclosure: Al Qaeda in Syria, the Story You Haven’t Heard?

Filed under: Black Ops, Corruption, Excessive Use Of Force, Fraud, Government, Government Overreach, Harassment, History, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Lack Of Transparency, Loot and Pillage, Murder, Politics, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Provocation / Incitement, Psy - Ops, Revolution, Secrecy, Special Interests, Unethical, War Crimes, War on terror, Wars and Rumors of War, World News — Leave a comment
March 23, 2013

Ben Swann

Published on Mar 19, 2013

Ben Swann Full Disclosure talks with Emilio Ibrahim, a Syrian man living in Damascus about the U.S. and Saudi funding of Al Qaeda fighters who are leading the so called Syrian revolution.

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Uprising endangers the grip of the Saud dynasty: Jamal Wakim

Filed under: Activism, Excessive Use Of Force, Freedom, Fundamental Rights, Government, Government Overreach, Harassment, History, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Lack Of Transparency, Police Brutality, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Secrecy, Special Interests — 3 Comments
February 5, 2013

Published on Feb 4, 2013

An analyst says the critical situation and mounting opposition from various groups in Saudi Arabia will soon lead to a ‘Saudi Spring’ that will endanger the Al Saud dynasty’s rule in Saudi Arabia. The comment comes as Saudi protesters have taken to the streets in the capital, Riyadh, to express solidarity with political prisoners and those arrested in demonstrations against the ruling Al Saud regime. On Sunday, the demonstrators called on Saudi authorities to release all jailed opposition activists and prisoners of conscience. Press TV has interviewed Jamal Wakim, political analyst in Beirut to further discuss the issue.

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Morsi’s Arab Springtime : Muslim Brotherhood rape squads going out for the very moral purpose of teaching Egyptian girls and women never to escape their sacred house arrest without a male escort.

Filed under: Corruption, crime, Excessive Use Of Force, Fraud, Fundamental Rights, Government, Government Overreach, Harassment, History, Human Rights, Hypocrisy, Politics, Politics, Legislation and Economy News, Power Struggle, Provocation / Incitement, Psy - Ops, Rape, Secrecy, Security, Sexual Harassment, Special Interests, Unethical, Women's Rights, World News — Leave a comment
February 5, 2013

February 4, 2013

Rape Squads and Saudi Dollars

By James Lewis

 American Thinker

Forget Springtime for Hitler. In the Era of Obama we have official Arab Springtime for Morsi, complete with Muslim Brotherhood rape squads going out for the very moral purpose of teaching Egyptian girls and women never to escape their sacred house arrest without a male escort. This is Shari’a law as enforced in Saudi Arabia as well as in the city of London.

StrategyPage, an excellent military website, gives us this information about who is paying for the worldwide jihad. On the Sunni side of the street it turns out to be our friends the Saudis:

“Where exactly did the current crop of Islamic terrorists come from? Basically, they came from Saudi Arabia… Saudi Arabia was also exporting billions of dollars, and thousands of Wahhabi preachers… Because of international media networks, Islamic terrorism was no longer a bunch of separate problems…”

And there we are today. The Saudis are using their billions to export 7th century Arabian barbarism to the rest of the world, and the Iranian mullahs across the Gulf are exporting their version to Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria. But basically it’s two flavors of the same criminal ideology, which sanctifies rape and killing for the sake of Allah.

As any Muslim theocrat will tell you, women are responsible for being raped. If they cover their bodies properly and are always escorted by their fathers or brothers, they would not be raped. On the other hand, if they escape their home jails and shame the family honor they deserve death.

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