For 40 years the kingdom's ministry of foreign affairs was headed by one man The end of saud al faisal's tenure, which began in 1975, coincided with the royal succession upon the death of king abdullah in january 2015. The most common mechanism for distributing saudi arabia's wealth to the royal family is the formal, budgeted system of monthly stipends that members of the al saud family receive, according to the. Ali haider/epa saudi arabia proposed creating an arab force backed by us and nato air and sea power to intervene in lebanon two years ago and. Wikileaks begins leaking more than 500,000 saudi diplomatic documents an unprecedented leak of diplomatic documents from saudi arabia has lifted the lid on the dirty politics of the secretive kingdom. As long as the royal family views this country and its oil wealth as al saud inc., the thousands of princes and princesses will see it as their birthright to receive dividend payments and raid the till.
Wikileaks has published these classified documents, diplomatic cables, between the united states department of state and its diplomatic missions around the world Many previously unknown statements or opinions about a variety of middle eastern topics. Since wikileaks published the documents, the associated press and other. Saudi arabia warns against sharing 'faked' cables in response to wikileaks' publication of 60,000 cables, citizens urged not to share documents that might be faked.
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