Saudi Horrors Exposed on British and US TV; Alliance Questioned

A new undercover documentary revealing the horrors of the Saudi Arabian kingdom is due to air Tuesday evening on British television, and next week March 29 on PBS’s Frontline. The fascist royals (and Obama) would rather that you not see it.

Five bodies hang from a pole suspended aloft by two large cranes; a woman screams “I did not do it!” just as her head is chopped off; police brandish whips against women; blood runs thick in a public space nicknamed “Chop Chop Square.” Such are the images in “Saudi Arabia Uncovered,” captured by some courageous film makers — Hardcash Productions and Independent “ITV” (Channel 3) in Britain, in conjunction with the American PBS Television — using hidden cameras, bringing the brutality of Saudi Arabia, the closest ally of both the British and American regimes, to the light of day.

Also shown is the extremism of the schools and mosques — spewing hatred equally against Christian, Jew, and Shi’a Muslim — enforced by the thought police, the Orwellian “Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.” An article in Britain’s Daily Mail notes, “Chillingly, only two other movements in the world — the Taliban in Afghanistan and Islamic State in Syria and Iraq — have organizations with the same name.”

The Daily Mail article goes on to critique this strange “special relationship,” in terms which could apply equally to the Obama White House: “Yet Saudi Arabia remains one of Britain’s closest allies, not just in the Middle East but worldwide, as it has for nearly a century. We sell them arms. They sell us oil. The royal families of each country are close…. Our leaders conveniently overlook the truth about the desert kingdom.”