Saudi royal denounces his brother

BBC ^ | 29 June 2009 | Magdi Abdelhadi

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A member of the Saudi royal family has called for the assets of his brother to be frozen.

Prince Khaled bin Talal denounced his brother's media empire in an unprecedented public attack from within the ruling family.

Prince Khaled accused Prince Walid bin Talal of disseminating vice and violating the rules of Islamic Sharia in the conservative kingdom.

Prince Walid is one of the richest businessmen in the world.

It has long been known that there is a split within the ranks of Saud family between liberals and conservatives.

But, until now, they have always managed to keep a lid on the problem.

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[Cementjungle]

It has long been known that there is a split within the ranks of Saud family between liberals and conservatives.

A lot of that going around these days.

[americanophile]

Grab the non-halal popcorn.

[Tainan]

Psssst!...Hey Khaled....Walid says your breath smells of camel dung....you gonna let him say that about you?

[chuckles]

This is really not a funny matter. Prince Walid, if I'm not mistaken owns Citigroup stock and many more investments in the US. If his stuff gets "froze", that's about 25% of Citigroup.

A few hundred billion here, and a few hundred billion there and pretty soon you're talkin real money.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I read a long bio of Prince Walid lately. He’s one the few Saudi royals not living in the 12th century. He hires Saudi women to work for his companies and lets them wear whatever they want inside at work. He was quoted as saying basically, “How do you expect our country to accomplish anything when 50% of our population (women) are sitting around doing nothing.” Which pissed off the 12th century savages in that country to no end.
How he gets away with it is that instead of keeping the population poor and stupid, he travels around SA to the most neglected areas and funds schools, medical clinics, and the worst SA ghettos and passes out cash to single mothers, etc...
He keeps by the book records of all his donations. When ever one of the Islamderthals bitches about his actions, he’s been very vocal with “Hey bitch, take a look at what I’ve donated to this country, what the hell have you done?”

[Bat_Chemist]

"يا عاهرة ، وإلقاء نظرة على ما كنت تبرعت لهذا البلد ، وماذا فعلتم الجحيم؟"

That's the Google translation of "Hey bitch, take a look at what I've donated to this country, what the hell have you done?" (Read right-to-left, of course.)

[SuperLuminal]

This we do not need!

[MestaMachine]

I guess what happens in Vegas doesn’t stay in Vegas anymore. Must have got himself a prettier blond.
No secret the Sauds LUV to spend as much time as they can there. Own lots of gazillion dollar properties there too.
Talk about hypocrisy.

[grey_whiskers]

*PING* to post 7.

Cheers!

[G8 Diplomat]

Google's ok for translating single words, but they're not so good at doing whole sentences. Here's what I'd write (this isn't perfect either, I don't have a masters in Arabic! ...yet):

يا كلبة انظر الى ما تبرعت لهذا البلد...ماذا فعلت؟

I don't think Arabic has an expression for "what the hell..." so I just wrote "what have you done"

[G8 Diplomat]

Prince Walid is one of the richest businessmen in the world.

IIRC, he's the 19th riches person in the world. He owns the largest share in Citibank and bought the world's first Airbus A-380, aka the "flying palace."