Investigative journalist Matt Kennard:
In a report written during the First World War, British political officer Captain William Shakespear explains the British arrangement negotiated with Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, founder of the modern Saudi state.
“I venture to submit that [Ibn Saud] in effect asks for little more than what has already been conveyed…In exchange [Ibn Saud] offers to make himself a British vassal for good.”
Ibn Saud would conquer the Hejaz in 1924–25 and proclaim the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1932. The whole campaign was facilitated by London
Ibn Saud was a British client from the beginning. And the Wahhabi dictators in Riyadh still serve London and—after the Roosevelt/Lord Halifax deal in 1944—their imperial partners in Washington
UK military has had 11 soldiers embedded in the personal protection force of the ruling Saud family since 1964 (BMM SANG)
The United States Military Training Mission (USMTM) was established in Saudi Arabia in 1953 to train, advise and equip the dictatorship’s armed forces. It’s still in operation and composed of 330 American personnel
Saudi has been a puppet regime from its inception
