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	Ibn Saud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ibn Saud was born in Riyadh, Arabia, the son of Abd al-Rahman bin Faysal bin Turki Al Saud and.
		The armies of the House of Saud suffered a major defeat on June 15, 1904, but his forces soon reconstituted and resumed the offensive as the Turkish troops left the country due to supply problems.
		In 1964 King Saud was deposed by the and succeeded by King Faisal, another of Ibn Saud's sons.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Abdul-Aziz_ibn_Saud (1117 words)

	Saud of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Saud bin Abdul Aziz (January 12, 1902 - February 23, 1969) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to November 2, 1964.
		He was the eldest son of Ibn Saud, and was made a crown prince on May 11, 1933 and became king upon his father's death in 1953.
		Saud was keen to give his own sons power, and placed them in high governmental positions.
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Saud_of_Saudi_Arabia (283 words)

	Muhammad bin Saud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		1765) is considered the first head of the House of Saud, which is technically named for his father, Saud bin Mohammed bin Mukrin.
		The use of religion as a basis for legitimacy differentiated the House of Saud from neighboring tribes and built support.
		Thus, Muhammad bin Saud is considered the founder of the First Saudi State.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Muhammad_bin_Saud (266 words)

	Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1902 Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud captured Riyadh, the Al-Saud dynasty's ancestral capital, from the rival Al-Rashid family.
		Many opponents of the House of Saud reject the family's legitimacy and decline to speak of the country as "Saudi Arabia".
		The Basic Law adopted in 1992 declared that Saudi Arabia is a monarchy ruled by the sons and grandsons of the first king, Abd Al Aziz Al Saud, and that the Holy Qur'an is the constitution of the country, which is governed on the basis of Islamic law (Shari'a).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saudi_Arabia (2624 words)

	Faisal of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		King Faysal bin Abdelaziz Al Saud (1906—March 25, 1975) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975.
		Faisal was born in Riyadh, the fourth son of Ibn Saud.
		When Saud's health failed, Faisal was appointed regent, assuming office on March 4, 1964.
	www.sevenhills.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Faisal_of_Saudi_Arabia (492 words)

	fahd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz (born Riyadh 1923), is the king and prime minister of Saudi Arabia and leader of the House of Saud.
		Fahd is a son of Ibn Saud, the first monarch and founder of modern Saudi Arabia.
		Fahd's education took place at the Princes' School in Riyadh, a school established by Ibn Saud specifically for the education of members of the House of Saud.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Fahd.html (643 words)

	Ibn Saud -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1948 Saud participated in the (Tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East) Arab-Israeli war.
		Ibn Saud died in (A city in western Saudi Arabia east of Mecca) Taif.
		Ibn Saud is the father of all the (Click link for more info and facts about Kings of Saudi Arabia) Kings of Saudi Arabia that have succeeded him.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/ib/ibn_saud.htm (1208 words)

	Weekly Worker 439 Thursday July 4 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Despite this early success, Ibn Saud recognised that he needed sponsorship from a major imperial power if he was to prevent a repeat of the debacle of the previous century and finally defeat the Al-Sauds’ tribal enemies.
		Houses were ransacked and whole towns were razed to the ground.
		Saud, however, had no intention of ending his reliance on Britain and the stage was set for the inevitable showdown.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/439/saud.html (2408 words)

	frontline: house of saud: interviews: robert lacey \| PBS
		Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protégé but had never quite lived up to everything that his father had.
		The House of Saud are as greedy as anyone else on the planet, and they would like the maximum fair share they could get from their country's resources.
		The problem is that even as the majority of Saudis changed the wiring in their heads to adapt to the modern world, there is a group who go in exactly the opposite way, and they have expressed their resistance in the violence that we have seen.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saud/interviews/lacey.html (5832 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was born into the House of Saud (also Sa'ud), which had historically maintained dominion over an area of what was then known as Arabia called Nejd.
		In 1904, however, Ibn Rashid appealed to the Ottoman Empire for assistance in defeating the House of Saud.
		In 1964 King Saud was deposed by the Saudi Council of Ministers and succeeded by King Faisal, another of Ibn Saud's sons.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Ibn_Saud (926 words)

	The fall of the House of Saud. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is the fulcrum on which the global economy teeters, and the House of Saud knows what the West is only beginning to learn: that it presides over a kingdom dangerously at war with itself.
		If I had to pick a single moment when the House of Saud truly began to fall apart, it would be when Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's son Fahd, who has been king since 1982, suffered a near fatal stroke, in 1995.
		Ibn Saud had married her to cement a trace with the Rashid, and although the Rashid were now loyal subjects, Abdullah was still mistrusted by Fahd's full brothers.
	www.emjournal.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /aajune022.html (7460 words)

	Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs
		The House of Saud's role as part of the solution is the easiest to assess because it is trumpeted, rather than deliberately obscured, by the regime's officials and the state-controlled media.
		Obeid was head of the WML from 1995 to 2002, during which time the charity spent tens of millions of dollars to finance the spread of Wahhabism.
		Also, in June, Mubarak al-Sowat, head of the police investigations department in Mecca and a leading proponent of launching preemptive strikes against suspected extremists, was shot nine times outside of his home and then hacked to pieces with an axe.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Middle_East/GI08Ak01.html (4741 words)

	ipedia.com: House of Saud Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The House of Saud is also linked with Wahhabism through the marriage of the son of Muhammad ibn Saud with the daughter of Muhammad ibn Abd al Wahhab in 1744.
		The history of the House of Saud has been marked by a desire to unify the Arabian Peninsula and to spread a more pure and simple view of Islam embodied by Wahhabism.
		As such, the House of Saud has gone through three phases: the First Saudi State, the Second Saudi State, and the modern nation of Saudi Arabia.
	www.ipedia.com /house_of_saud.html (261 words)

	ROYALS VS. WAHHABIS
		The 24,000 members (including girls and wives) of the House of Saud — Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world named after a royal family — are not yet the target.
		The House of Saud has finally conceded that its Wahhabi missionaries, whose subversive activities enjoyed diplomatic immunity, were engaged in teaching anti-Western religious fanaticism.
		In an interview with the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin, Dr. Faqih, a London-based former professor of surgery at King Saud University, admitted he was calling for "the overthrow of the Saudi regime." MIRA is "demanding changes in the country [that] are simply incompatible with the survival of the regime.
	www.benadorassociates.com /pf.php?id=755 (1178 words)

	It's Happening Global Discussion Forum - The Fall of the House of Saud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The House of the Saudi family is secure and the criticle workers from America are secure too.
		Given the fact that the family Saud and their Wahabi allies have oppressed the Shites(understatement of the year) we might want to "suggest' to the family Saud that we might support the Shite's in a revolution if things don't start to change and soon.
		The problem the family Saud has is the legitimacy of their rule comes from their support of the Wahabi sect.
	www.itshappening.com /printthread.php?t=45091 (906 words)

	Nations and States
		Reinhard Nemetz, the chief prosecutor heading the investigation in the Bavarian town of Augsburg, said at least $12 million was paid in kickbacks on the sale of 36 German tanks in 1991, part of it to Ludwig-Holger Pfahls, then the second-ranking defense official in Mr.
		Pfahls, who was the former head of Germany's domestic intelligence services; Pierre Lethier, the former chief of staff of two heads of the French external security services, and Dieter Holzer, a businessman with known links to German intelligence.
		The contract with Nobelpac was signed on Sept. 21, 1991, by André Guillon, the former head of refining at Elf, who is now in prison in France, where he has been charged with fraud.
	www.globalpolicy.org /nations/corrupt/kohl7.htm (1840 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: The Fall of the House of Saud by Robert Baer
		But the House of Saud had been powerful in the region ever since the eighteenth century, when the radical cleric Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhab, the founder of the puritanical Wahhabi movement, wandered into Dar'iya, near present-day Riyadh, and made a bargain with its ruler, Muhammad ibn Saud.
		To begin with, his mother was from the Rashid tribe, traditional enemies of the Saud.
		In the wake of these revelations a U.S. delegation headed by Alan Larson, President Bush's undersecretary of state for economic affairs, traveled to Riyadh last November, ostensibly to prod the Saudis toward increasing the surveillance of their charities and financial networks.
	frontpagemag.com /articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7892 (7480 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		And the House of Saud was spared an "international incident." That normally staid bureaucrats engaged in incredible acrobatics to bail out three guys who never should have been in the United States in the first place says a great deal about State's "special relationship" with the Saudis.
		While official policy was coziness with the House of Saud and Foggy Bottom was dominated by Arabists, there was some degree of tension, with many officials uncomfortable with the radical Wahhabi clerics who dominate everyday life in Saudi Arabia.
		Mohammed ibn Saud, ancestor to the current king, struck a pact with Mohammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab some 250 years ago, whereby Wahhab's fundamentalist clerics and followers would support the Saud family, in exchange for the royal family's generous financial support of Wahhabism, Wahhab's militant version of Sunni Islam.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra?id=110004154 (4159 words)

	Fall of the House of Saud
		Ibn Saud had married her to cement a truce with the Rashid, and although the Rashid were now loyal subjects, Abdullah was still mistrusted by Fahd's full brothers.
		The House of Saud currently has some 30,000 members.
		Signs of impending disaster are everywhere, but the House of Saud has chosen to pray that the moment of reckoning will not come soon-and the United States has chosen to look away.
	dunamai.com /articles/general/fall_of_the_house_of_saud.htm (7471 words)

	The Complete Saudi Primer - Center for American Progress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But as the new book "House of Bush, House of Saud" notes in its first excerpts on Salon.com, the flight ban had one exception: the Saudi relatives of Osama bin Laden.
		Riggs Bank is headed by longtime Bush family friend Joe Allbritton, employs President Bush's uncle Jonathan as a top executive, and other executives have been financial donors to the Bush campaign.
		White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters that the administration is staying "in close contact with energy producers around the world." McClellan said Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham would "meet with key oil producers and talk to them about the market" but he couldn't say when that meeting would occur.
	www.americanprogress.org /site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=99415 (2256 words)

	The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wafah's father, Yeslam, is the Geneva-based head of the Binladin family's European holding company, the Saudi Investment Company.
		According to Saad Al-Fagih, a London-based surgeon and Saudi dissident, who heads a group called Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia, Osama bin Laden's oldest son is being closely watched by the Saudi government, which has restricted his travel from the kingdom for the past five years.
		His mind was like a computer for figures." He was a talented engineer, and Guess believes that in the nineteen-fifties Muhammad won the favor of King Saud, who was confined to a wheelchair, by building him a ramp so that he could be pushed up to the second floor of his palace.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content?011112fa_FACT3 (4300 words)

	Winds of Change.NET: Guest Blog: Foresta's Saudi Rx (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The House of Saud is the heart pumping the blood to nourish the body of jihadist Islam.
		In the end, I am questioning Bush shielding and insulate the House of Saud from investigation into strong evidence of at least complicit involvement in the horrors of 9/11, and certain financial and political attachment to wahabism and the funding and nurturing of mass murder organizations.
		That the Bush Administration is thoroughly in bed with the House of Saud, and that the intimate nature of this relationship clouds their judgement when dealing with this odious regime.
	www.windsofchange.net /archives/004070.php (18693 words)

	House of Saud: Enough is enough - PittsburghLIVE.com
		There, the beheading of a man and woman Monday last for murder and robbery, the 41st and 42nd this year to lose their heads, made Islamists happy.
		The House of Saud’s denounces terror as it bankrolls the same with oil money.
		Writing in National Review, national security expert Alex Alexiev proposes that we combat the Saudi support of radical Islam worldwide with the truth: Radical Islam sponsored by the House of Saud is an evil that no rational Muslim should tolerate, in cause or effect.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/s_98781.html (286 words)

	Saudhouse
		That Jewish Ancestor of the SAUDI FAMILY (MORDAKHAI), was quick to establish a "GUEST HOUSE" called "MADAFFA" on the land he usurped from his victims, and gathered around him a group of hypocrites who started to spread out false propaganda for him that he was a prominent Arab Sheikh.
		Descendants of SAUD (the present day SAUDI FAMILY)started a campaign of assassination of the prominent leaders of the Arab Tribes under the pretence that those leaders were apostates; renegading from the Islamic Religion, and deserting their Koranic doctrines; so they deserved the SAUDI condemnation and slaughter!
		That hideous crime was committed by that self imposed king to innocent people whose guilt was their opposition to his most cruel and extremely despotic rules.
	www.fortunecity.com /boozers/bridge/632/history.html (1183 words)

	Khalid of Saudi Arabia biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He decided to bring in foreign labour to help with the country's development.
		A relatively easygoing but pious man, like many members of the House of Saud he died of a heart attack.
		He had purchased a Boeing 747 with an operating room should he be stricken while on his travels.
	king-khalid.biography.ms (162 words)

	Beheading elicits reactions of outrage and disgust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Since the Islamicists want their heads too, my guess is they will take last ditch action.
		House of Saud knows the Americans are only interested in oil.
		House of Saud needs to choose soon---very soon; the terrorists are inside your gates.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/1156396/posts?page=43 (2870 words)

	Terror in the House of Saud - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com
		The idea is to drive these people, who are vital to the economy and national defense of Saudi Arabia, out of the country and in that way bring down the House of Saud.
		He attacked the United States because we support the House of Saud, and we’re the soft underbelly.
		I don’t expect this to be an existential threat that’s going to bring down the House of Saud—unlike the situation with the [Shah of Iran] in the late ‘70s, you don’t have mass mobilization of people against the regime.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/5241654/site/newsweek (1434 words)

	The Other Side of the House of Saud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		According to a recent report by Freedom House, one of the United States’ oldest human rights groups, these and other incendiary exhortations are included in a range of books, pamphlets and other documents distributed internationally by Saudi Arabia and top clerics in the desert kingdom.
		The Freedom House report argues that the reviewed material is disseminated to the United States “in order to influence a growing audience of Muslims” toward the Saudi way of thinking.
		Two subcommittee chairmen in the House of Representatives have promised to hold hearings on the subject, while other members of Congress have written directly to Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States to demand an end to the distribution of the material cited by Freedom House.
	www.aipac.org /result.cfm?id=1755 (760 words)

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