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Ben Norton 21st-century feudalism "Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” So advised world-renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky, one of the most cited thinkers in human history. The counsel may sound simple and intuitive...

Saudi Arabia funds and support extremism Ben Norton Everybody’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s a really easy way: stop participating in it.” So advised world-renowned public intellectual Noam Chomsky, one of the most cited thinkers in human history. The counsel may sound...

ISIS and Saudi Arabia: A Dangerous Double Game Saudi Arabia, with one of the region’s largest military budgets and strongest armies, is a key part of the U.S.-led coalition attacking Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq. Riyadh designated ISIS a terrorist organization as far back as March...

Hmm..banned sectarian groups including ASWJ (parent of Lashkar e Jhangvi, and Harkatul Mujahideen supporting the Saudis. Malik Ishaq who was poised to join ISIS before his death, was a VP of ASWJ as well. The rally by these local puppets is revealing in terms of Saudi support for such...

Saudi forming an anti terror coalition is like a thief setting up a police station.

With friends like these who needs enemies.

Old habits die hard.

DAWN A flawed alliance ARE we or are we not a part of the newly formed Saudi-led ‘Islamic military alliance’? The contradictory statements emanating from the foreign ministry have deepened the puzzle. First, there was an appearance of surprise when the Saudi deputy crown prince named Pakistan...

Great - so the state that spawned ISIS will lead the coalition to fight it? What a joke! The Saudis can begin by not funding ISIS and other affiliated jihadist groups. That would be a good start.

The Nation Britain, and more importantly Prime Minister David Cameron, has been in the spotlight lately for all the wrong reasons. It has been facing a backlash from a coalition of human rights groups on Wednesday, which criticised Britain for weapons transfers to Saudi Arabia, claiming that...

No regret over supporting IS, says Lal Masjid cleric - The Express Tribune

Pro-ISIS Lal Masjid Cleric cited enforcement of "Saudi Sharia" as key goal in 2007 Saudi Ambassador in Islamabad Ali Awad al-Aseeri has visited Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) and called on Maulana Abdul Aziz and Allama Abdul Rashid Ghazi. The Saudi envoy on Wednesday inquired about the mosque...

After Paris and Beirut, It’s Time to Rein in Saudi Arabia America's leading ally has been propagating a violent, sectarian religious ideology long before ISIS came on the scene. By Inge Fryklund, November 20, 2015. After the carnage in Paris, Western governments turned immediately to debating...

The Paris attack has shown the chaos unleashed in the Middle East has no borders. Perhaps western powers will now learn the important lesson:: Don't rely on pseudo-religious Salafi-inspired thugs to further geo-political agendas. Thankfully our establishment has learnt this lesson well. The Al...

Refer to the ' War against TTP' thread and you will find all the details you are looking for. Forgot to also mention saudi-spawned ISIS and its links with Saudi's favorite local proxy - Lashkar e Jhangvi, which has been a part of TTP for some time.Happy reading and the pleasure is all mine!

Does this mean Saudi will finally stop funding TTP, Lashkar e Jhangvi and other jihadi groups trying to destabilize the Pakistani state?

Huffington Post Alastair Crooke BEIRUT -- The dramatic arrival of Da'ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed -- and horrified -- by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more than this, they find Saudi Arabia's ambivalence in...

DAWN KARACHI: Investigators probing the first attack claimed in Pakistan by the Islamic State group believe a notorious local sectarian group may have carried out the massacre as it seeks to expand its ties to the Middle East.Gunmen stormed a bus in Karachi last month, killing 45 members of...

Malik Ishaq was set to join Islamic State before his death, says official - The Express Tribune

LeJ and ISIS linked DAWN The Sindh IGP said that Daesh or the self-styled Islamic State and the banned sectarian militant group Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) were linked to each other. Referring to the Safoora attack suspects, he said they had been involved with Daesh for at least a year and had...