America Detains Saudi King,Replacing Him with Nayef

The United States has forced Saudi King Abdallah and his son, Abdul Aziz, to travel to the America in forced exile, after fabricating a medical report that claims he suffers from a rare disease for which there is no treatment in Saudi Arabia. Immediately following his arrival, the American government detained the king and his son, on the pretext of conducting medical examinations, which were followed by a procedure that involved the injection of American cartilage; he was confined to bed. He was pressured to abandon his efforts with Syria in Lebanon and denied the right to return to Saudi Arabia.

The U.S. chose his brother, interior minister, Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, as the new king for Saudi Arabia, because he is known for his affiliation with the U.S. and his good relations with Mubarak and Abdullah of Jordan. While they abandoned King Abdullah, the American administration sent Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the gulf nations to inform them that the administration had decided to forsake Abdullah and appoint his brother, Nayef, as the new king. Each of these nations must deal with this new reality, without hesitation, to protect their threatened interests and to learn lessons from what is happening in Egypt, Sudan, Tunisia and Algeria.

Before this trip, the Saudi King believed his son would be the leader to defend his nation, considering him to be capable of controlling the situation, especially after learning of the schemes of his brother, Nayef, to take control. But the plan in opposition to his son was stronger, and he ultimately was expelled because of his unwillingness to focus on ending the resistance and to fully dedicate his government to the issue of Iran, especially after the Iranian victory in Iraq: the installation of al-Maliki.

Interior Minister Nayef has been able to style himself as a person capable of assuming power and responsibility for national security. Obama and the U.S. are concerned about the failure of the Saudi Army to eliminate the Houthis in Yemen, as well as the decline in popularity of Khalid bin Sultan, leader of the ground forces and the son of the current crown prince, Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, who is terminally ill and might disappear from the stage at any time.

This would allow Nayef to present himself as capable of taking the reins for security. He has carefully planned and implemented several methods of styling himself as a bulwark, in the face of Saudi Wahhabi terrorism — an example is the incident of packages sent from Yemen — and proving that the ministry of the interior, through his leadership, is most capable of assuming power.

Nayef warned Obama of the possibility of terrorist attacks and announced that pilgrims could be exposed to terrorist plots. When the pilgrimage ended successfully, the ministry under Nayef was able to announce that it had detained a large group of terrorists to maintain peace, although this was a media ploy. Actually, some of the reports of terrorist arrests came when the terrorists were already in Saudi prisons, in order to market Nayef as the one capable of maintaining the nation’s security.

The U.S. decided against returning Abdullah to Saudi Arabia and to detain him in America, until Nayef undertakes the necessary steps of announcing the inability of the Saudi king to fulfill his duties and choosing the new king, who will certainly be Nayef bin Abdul Aziz, based on security considerations.

During the detention of King Abdullah in America, the U.S. administration has also barred his son, Abdul Aziz, from traveling outside the U.S. Either King Abdullah has been dismissed for health reasons, or his abandonment is essentially compliance, a result of strong U.S. pressure. The appointment of Nayef to his father’s position will create an Egyptian-Jordanian-Saudi alliance that will work to take leadership away from Turkey, which has been able, in recent times, to have the final say for the Sunni community in the Arab and Islamic world.

Arab governments and parties, whether secular or religious, have found themselves neutralized on all levels by the victorious Shiites. As a result of the large public support for the Shi’i and the number of defeats, these governments and parties have resorted to sectarian slogans (that the Sunnis are being targeted by the Shiites), in order to engage their audiences and garner their support. The ugliest example of this is the fervor of Sunni Arab governments and officials who condemn Saddam to hell. They say that the Sunnis of Iraq are being targeted, and they have plunged Iraq into a sea of blood. These are the same people who are, today, spreading their fervor to Lebanon, under the pretext that Saad Hariri is Sunni and, therefore, a target.

The coming days will witness changes in the Saudi government and, consequently, a confrontation with Turkey to recover the Sunni mantle. Afterward, the government will devote itself to defending Israel against, first, the resistance, and then Iran.

After having detained Noriega in a military operation in his own country and imprisoning him, America has, for a second time, undertaken the arrest of a foreign head of state, the King of Saudi Arabia Abdullah.