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Kevin Hart's Car Will Be Disassembled By CHP and Laws Could Change Our CHP sources tell us its protocol is often to disassemble cars involved in either fatal or major injuries to determine the cause of the crash. It's a 3-week process ... a week taking the car apart and 2-3 weeks evaluating the evidence and writing a report.

The house of Saud is pulling out all the stops to strengthen its legitimacy as the tsunami of revolution sweeps Arabia. As the self-proclaimed "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques" in Mecca, protecting and developing the Grand Mosque is a way of underscoring the royal family's God-given right to rule. But trouble is closing in all around the royals. This summer King Abdullah dedicated the new Royal Clock Tower in Mecca. The world’s second-tallest building (behind Dubai), it measures over six hundred meters and can be seen from all parts of the city. Bigger than Big Ben, it’s a symbol...

The mother of Huma Abedin, Hillary's Clinton's chief of staff, has represented a Saudi-funded Muslim charity accused of terrorism financing and ties to al-Qaida. Huma is the wife of former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner of New York. Huma's mother is Saleha Mahmood Abedin, an associate professor of sociology at Dar Al-Hekma College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She formerly directed the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs in the U.K.

The US military has awarded an $80 million contract to a prominent Saudi financier who has been indicted by the US Justice Department. The contract to supply jet fuel to American bases in Afghanistan was awarded to the Attock Refinery Ltd, a Pakistani-based refinery owned by Gaith Pharaon. Pharaon is wanted in connection with his alleged role at the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and the CenTrust savings and loan scandal, which cost US tax payers $1.7 billion. (ABC News Photo Illustration)The Saudi businessman was also named in a 2002 French parliamentary report as having links to...

Saudi maids raped, enslaved Thousands flee sponsors after reported abuse Posted: March 10, 2004 9:07 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Thousands of foreign maids in Saudi Arabia are fleeing the homes of their sponsors, some citing sexual abuse and enslavement charges. There are 80 runaway maids in one villa near the Sri Lankan Consulate alone, according to a report in Arab News. Another 100 are reported in Riyadh. The Sri Lankan press has been filled with sensational stories about the "sale" of runaway maids and accusations against Saudis for mistreating their domestic help. Sri Lankan Ambassador Ibrahim Sahib Ansar is...

America's dependence on Saudi Arabia and its supply of fuel is "so strong it's almost like a narcotic," according to a former CIA agent, in a May interview with Atlantic Unbound, the Atlantic Monthly's online journal. "If we don't curtail our dependence, a failure in Saudi Arabia could have catastrophic consequences for the United States," says Robert Baer, who worked for the CIA in the Middle East for two decades. The United States' policies on Saudi Arabia, Baer argues, are built upon a delusion that "the flow of its most precious commodity can continue on indefinitely". Oil and the defence...

     Aug. 11 (Bloomberg) -- Lucent Technologies Inc., the largestU.S. telephone-equipment maker, won favorable treatment from SaudiArabia's telecommunication agency by paying more than $15 millionin bribes to the agency's minister, a lawsuit claims.     The National Group of Communications and Computers Ltd., aSaudi-based company, says Lucent paid the money to Ali Al-Johani,whose ministry oversaw the Saudi-run phone system. National Group,now known as Silki-La-Silki National Telecom Ltd., sued in U.S.District Court in Manhattan.     In return for the alleged bribes, Al-Johani directed SaudiTelecommun Co. to take actions that favored Lucent, the suit says.Lucent, based in Murray Hill, New Jersey, was allowed to...

April 14 issue; It looked like a successful strike against Al Qaeda in Europe. Last month German police raided a suspected terrorist cell in Berlin, arresting a half-dozen men and seizing bomb-making equipment, flight-simulator software and chemicals. Now the investigation has taken an unexpected turn.

It is well known that Saudi Arabia squanders much of its petro-wealth spreading Islamist propaganda worldwide, even here in Canada. Al-Qaeda gets much of its funding from Saudi Arabia. And it was recently revealed that the wife of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Riyadh's ambassador to the United States, indirectly financed two of the 9/11 hijackers. What is less known is that the desert kingdom brutalizes foreigners inside its borders. Western oilfield and medical workers who fall victim to terror attacks in Saudi Arabia are routinely arrested and tortured until they confess to planting the very bombs that maimed them. Canadian...

Former spy chief named in September 11 lawsuit is likely to be welcomed by the diplomatic community SAUDI ARABIA has chosen as its next ambassador to London its controversial former spy chief, a man who courted Osama bin Laden during the Cold War. According to diplomatic sources, the Saudi authorities have selected as their new envoy Prince Turki al-Faisal, a leading member of the Saudi Royal Family and head of intelligence for nearly a quarter of a century. His appointment is expected to be confirmed within weeks and he is likely to take up his post as early as next...

WHERE IS ISRAEL ON THIS MAP? This is the map on an official Saudi Arabia website. I guess it is going to be Iraq, then Syria, then Iran, then Libya, then Saudi Arabia. Adios to those with a stinking culture who gladly kill their children and who smell like goats.

LONDON - Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Britain said on Tuesday that Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza was worse than anything Europe experienced under Nazi Germany. He also defended Palestinian suicide bombers. Ghazi Algosaibi, who drew fire last April for writing a poem in praise of an 18-year-old female suicide bomber, said Israel was using its military might against civilians who were defending themselves with the only weapons available to them. "This is a war of occupation, far more severe than anything the Germans did when they occupied Europe in World War Two," he told academics and reporters...

A British banker was killed by a booby-trap bomb placed in his Land Rover in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh yesterday. Friends of Simon Veness blamed the attack on Islamic militants. But the Saudi authorities said it was the work of illegal expatriate alcohol traders.Mr Veness, a middle manager at the Saudi French Bank in Riyadh, was alone as he drove away from his home in the al-Nakheel Westerners' residential compound when the car exploded at about 8.45am. He died instantly.Mr Veness, 35, who had a two-year-old son and whose South African wife is pregnant, was due to return to...