How Saudia Government (Malik Fahd) has helped the kuffar against Muslimeen and the assistance they have given them.
http://www.sptimes.com/2004/04/25/news_pf/..._s_help_d.shtml
Saudi Arabia's help during war was more extensive, officials say.
By Associated Press
Published April 25, 2004
WASHINGTON - During the Iraq war, Saudi Arabia secretly has helped the United
States far more than has been acknowledged, allowing operations from at least
three air bases, permitting special forces to stage attacks from Saudi
soil and providing cheap fuel, U.S. and Saudi officials say.
The American air campaign against Iraq was essentially managed from
inside Saudi borders, where military commanders operated an air command center
and launched refueling tankers, F-16 fighter jets and sophisticated
intelligence gathering flights, according to the officials.
Much of the assistance has been kept quiet for more than a year by both
countries for fear it would add to instability inside the kingdom. Many
Saudis oppose the war, and U.S. presence on Saudi soil has been used by Osama
bin Laden to build his terror movement.
But senior political and military officials from both countries told the
Associated Press the Saudi royal family permitted widespread military
operations to be staged from inside the kingdom during the coalition force's
invasion of Iraq.
While the heart of the ground attack came from Kuwait, thousands of
special forces soldiers were permitted to stage their operations into Iraq from
inside Saudi Arabia, the officials said. These staging areas
became essential once Turkey declined to allow U.S. forces to operate from its
soil.
In addition, U.S. and coalition aircraft launched attacks, reconnaissance
flights and intelligence missions from three Saudi air bases, not just the
Prince Sultan Air Base, where U.S. officials have acknowledged activity.
Between 250 and 300 Air Force planes staged from Saudi Arabia, including
AWACS, C-130s, refueling tankers and F-16 fighter jets during the height of the
war, the officials said. Air and military operations during the war were
permitted at the Tabuk air base and Arar regional airport near the Iraq
border, the officials said.
Saudis also agreed to permit search and rescue missions to stage and
take off from their soil, the officials said.
Gen. T. Michael Moseley, a top Air Force general who was a key architect of the
air campaign in Iraq, called the Saudis "wonderful partners,"
although he agreed to discuss their help only in general terms.
"We operated the command center at Saudi Arabia. We operated airplanes out
of Saudi Arabia, as well as sensors, and tankers," Moseley said. He said
he treasured "their counsel, their mentoring, their leadership and their
support."
U.S.-Saudi cooperation raised eyebrows last week after it was disclosed that President
Bush shared his Iraq war plans with Saudi ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan
before the start of the war.
Some lawmakers have demanded to know why a foreigner was brought in on
private war planning.
When asked about the briefing, Bandar played down the extent of Saudi help.
"We were allies. And we helped our American friends in the way that was
necessary for them. And that was the reality," he said.
U.S. and Saudi officials said Bandar was briefed several times before the
war as part of securing Saudi assistance, and received regular updates as
U.S. needs changed.
Preparations for U.S. operations inside Saudi Arabia started in 2002 when the
Air Force awarded a contract to a Saudi company to provide jet fuel at four
airfields or bases inside the kingdom, documents show.
When the war started, the Saudis allowed cruise missiles to be fired from
Navy ships across their air space into Iraq. A few times missiles went off
course and landed inside the kingdom, officials said.
The Saudis provided tens of millions of dollars in discounted oil, gas and fuel
for American forces. During the war, a stream of oil delivery trucks at times
stretched for miles outside the Prince Sultan air base, said a senior U.S.
military planner.
The Saudis also were influential in keeping down world oil prices amid concern
over what might happen to Iraqi oil fields. They increased production by
1.5-million barrels a day during the run-up to war and helped keep Jordan -
which had relied on Iraqi oil - supplied.
Saudi officials said they provided significant military and intelligence help
on everything from issues of Muslim culture to securing the Saudi-Iraqi border
from fleeing Saddam Hussein supporters.
Sheikh Ibn Baz stated (Al-Fatawa 1/274): "There is a consensus amongst the
scholars that whoever supports the disbelievers against the believers (Dhahar
Al-Kuffar 'Ala Al-Muslimeen), and assists them by any means of assistance,
then he is a disbeliever just like them (the disbelievers he supported)…"
Information on the facilities in Saudia Arabia
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/fac...sultan-pixs.htm
(Picture Gallery)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/fac...ince-sultan.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/dammam.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/jeddah.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/hofuf.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/khobar.htm
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/taif.htm
The president's remark came immediately in the wake of reports here that US
special forces had conducted operations in Afghanistan and news that Saudi
Arabia had finally allowed use of its command centre at the modern Prince
Sultan air base, southwest of Riyadh, for any possible action against Al Qaida.
http://www.dawn.com/2001/09/29/top1.htm
Saudi Arabia hosts about 4,500 U.S. military personnel and an undisclosed
number of warplanes at Prince Sultan Air Base. U.S. warplanes patrolling a
no-fly zone over southern Iraq take off from Saudi Arabia. /FoxNews
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,34928,00.html
A Gulf diplomat told AFP Friday that Saudi Arabia had agreed to allow the
United States to use state-of-the-art U.S.-built air command facilities at
Prince Sultan Air Base to fight bin Laden and the Taliban.
"Saudi Arabia has no objection to the use of the facilities at Prince
Sultan Air Base," 100 kilometers [60 miles] south of Riyadh, said the
diplomat, who requested anonymity.
http://www.islam-online.net/english/news/2...article14.shtml
The Pentagon announced last week that it was dispatching a top Air Force
commander, Lt. Gen. Charles F. Wald, to Saudi Arabia to oversee air attacks
against Afghanistan from a command post at the Prince Sultan Air Base at Al
Kharj, about 70 miles outside Riyadh.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/s...esponse/1059310
No wonder, then, that the Saudi government reacted with horror and confusion
when American officials declared that they were using the same base as
headquarters for any retaliation against Afghanistan. In the end, the Saudi
regime probably will give American forces permission to use the base, as some
reports suggested they had on September 27th—but it will keep very quiet about
it. (Economist)
http://www.economist.com/agenda/displaysto...story_id=796255
The Saudis approved Pentagon use of the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC),
a multibillion-dollar U.S.-built facility at the Prince Sultan base, to direct
the air war against the Taliban… (CNN)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/0...udis/index.html
The nerve center of the air war, the Combined Air Operations Center at Prince
Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, regularly availed itself of real-time
television pictures of compounds and convoys provided by Predator cameras. New
data systems aboard B-1 and B-52 bombers enabled them to receive targeting
information en-route to Afghanistan, in a number of cases in real-time from
Special Forces on the ground.
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/iss...Lessons_Can.htm
At-Tibyān
fī Kufri Man A'ān al-Amrīkān (The
Exposition Regarding the Disbelief of the One That Assists the Americans) - Shaykh
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