PBS Frontline (Feb 2005) House Of Saud (DivX 1h55m).avi

PBS Frontline - House Of Saud - A Troubled Alliance (February 8th 2005) Saudi Arabia?one of the United States' most important allies for more than sixty years?is home to vast oil fields and a wealthy, often extravagant, monarchy. Until 9/11, most Americans paid little attention to how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was run. But in the aftermath of the attacks, America awoke to some difficult truths about its longtime ally: for decades, Saudi wealth and charities supported individuals and organizations dedicated to doing America harm, and its universities and religious schools?known as madrassas?prepared countless young men for jihad against the West. Today, Saudi television broadcasts programs where children read poems against Jews and in praise of Islamic martyrs. Recently twenty-six Saudi clerics, among them, Sheikh Nasser al-Omar, issued a fatwa, or edict, encouraging Muslims to fight the Americans in Iraq. And in December 2004, gunmen attacked the American consulate in Jeddah. "Investigating the history of U.S.-Saudi relations, it quickly becomes clear that this is an alliance built on quicksand," says co-producer Martin Smith, who has reported from the region for previous FRONTLINE films including "Saudi Time Bomb?" and "In Search of Al Qaeda." It was Franklin Roosevelt, seen in rare archival footage conducting a top-secret World War II meeting with Saudi King Abd al-Aziz on board the USS Quincy, who established the basic principles behind the U.S.-Saudi alliance. "America struck a pact with Saudi Arabia, and the deal was very simple," says Youssef Ibrahim, former Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times. "You give us oil at cheap prices, and we will give you protection. This protection eventually evolved into an American hegemony over the entire Gulf region, that this was an American area of influence, and in return for this it shall be protected from all enemies." As history shows, this agreement between Saudi Arabia's royal family and the U.S government has been challenged time and again by Saudi Arabia's fundamentalist Islamic population, who distrust American influence and intention and oppose America's alliance with Israel. More info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/ AVI File Details ============================================================================ Name.........: PBS Frontline (Feb 2005) House Of Saud (DivX 1h55m) ConRes.avi Filesize.....: 643 MB (or 659,155 KB or 674,974,728 bytes) Runtime......: 01:56:23 (209,295 fr) Video Codec..: DX50/DIVX Video Bitrate: 718 kb/s Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-2 Layer 3 Audio Bitrate: 48 kb/s (24/ch, stereo) CBR Frame Size...: 640x480 (1.33:1) [=4:3] Ripper ......: p2P2p Enjoy! :) http://conspiracyresearch.org (Forums, Wiki, Blogs) http://conspiracycentral.net:6969 (Educational Tracker)

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Sargent_D (2006-08-05)

I pray for the day we have a viable alternative fuel so we can stop relying on garbage like Saudi Arabia and the Middle East in general. Without oil, they will fade into insignificance.

Malenfant (2006-08-05)

the fun part is where the west will fade to insignificance without their oil...

smeary (2007-11-12)

A junkie will always need his fix. US relies too much on oil, like 25Mbpd out of the global 100Mbpd........that's just crazy. US only gets about 12% of their intake from the Middle East...(8% coming from Saudi) it's nothing. What you must question though is why the US is given a $1 discount off each barrel they buy from Saudis, and why the Saudis have to dig into their social welfare plan to finance $50B in building more oil productivity just to boost the production from 11Mbpd to 12.5Mbpd.......just so the Americans can have their fuel a bit cheaper as the US president needs SOME good news out of the Middle East. The war in Iraq didn't give the US govt any oil, really. For the amount Iraq ouputs (which dropped by a third since Saddam was overthrown) they might as well have invaded Norway! It was the instability they created in the region which lifted the global price of oil which did that. The Saudis needed to get out of a terrible decade which was a losing streak. Now, they are buying weapons from UK and US, and paying them in barrels. Every time a purchase order is sent from Riyadh for more weapons, the fuel price goes up. In effect, they are stuck with that kind of arrangement as they have MANY debts to pay off....

daleel (2011-03-17)

thanks.

dubdrone (2011-11-22)

@Sargent_D: I pray for the day when white people inevitably bomb, eat and ufc fight themselves out of existence so the rest of us don't have to watch our backs every time we want to go out in order to avoid barfights and not have our young children molested.... without these things, white males cannot survive....

toots2boots (2014-03-22)

@dubdrone,well said dude