{"id":6373,"date":"2012-02-25T19:38:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T02:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2012-02-25T19:38:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T02:38:22","slug":"in-moment-of-clarity-saudi-arabia%e2%80%99s-king-abdullah-realizes-he-is-us-israeli-puppet-agitating-conflict-with-his-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6373","title":{"rendered":"In moment of clarity Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah realizes he is US-Israeli Puppet agitating conflict with his neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah says \u2018foreign hands\u2019 behind unrest in the Arab world<\/strong><br \/>\nAssociated Press &#8211; 25 February, 2012 &#8211; Washington Post<\/p>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2014 Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah says that \u201cunnamed hands\u201d targeting Islam and the Arabs are behind recent events in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The king, who delivered a televised address Friday night to a conference of prominent Saudis, did not name any country. But Saudi officials have used similar terms to suggest a connection with Shiite Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were hands that are known to you all &#8230; behind what has happened in the Arab world, regrettably targeting Islam and the Arabs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Sunni Saudi Arabia is wary of the wave of Arab Spring uprisings, particularly in nearby Bahrain, where a Shiite majority is demanding greater rights from its Sunni rulers.<\/p>\n<p>However, the kingdom strongly backs the largely Sunni uprising in Syria against Iran\u2019s ally, President Bashar Assad.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle-east\/saudi-arabias-king-abdullah-says-foreign-hands-behind-unrest-in-the-arab-world\/2012\/02\/25\/gIQAL7xZZR_story.html?\" target=\"_blank\">&#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D6373&amp;text=In+moment+of+clarity+Saudi+Arabia%E2%80%99s+King+Abdullah+realizes+he+is+US-Israeli+Puppet+agitating+conflict+with+his+neighbors&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah says \u2018foreign hands\u2019 behind unrest in the Arab world Associated Press &#8211; 25 February, 2012 &#8211; Washington Post RIYADH, Saudi Arabia \u2014 Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Abdullah says that \u201cunnamed hands\u201d targeting Islam and the Arabs are behind recent events in the region. The king, who delivered a televised address Friday night <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=6373#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2560],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6374,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions\/6374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}