By Walid Shoebat
Monday’s drug bust — one of the largest at the airport in Lebanese history — is just the latest incident in what’s been an embarrassing month for the Saudi royal family. Just how much drugs are being shipped by Muslim governments will never be known but Saudi prince Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud and four others were arrested in Lebanon Monday after authorities found more than two tons of illegal drugs, including cocaine and the amphetamine Captagon, in crates loaded onto a Saudi-bound jet. The boxes labeled in Arabic below translate to: “PRIVATE PROPERTY of The Companion of His Majesty The King Prince Abd al-Muhsen bin Walid bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud”.
Now we’re not talking about two kilos here. These days the Muslim governments are shipping this stuff by the tons.
And they also get away with it and history proves it. The prince may be let off the hook since other members of his sprawling family tree have previously avoided international accusations of drug smuggling under protection in Riyadh.
In 1999, Saudi Prince Nayef bin Sultan bin Fawwaz Al Shaalan smuggled two tons of cocaine from Venezuela to France. Now believed to be living under legal shelter in Saudi Arabia, Prince Nayef was accused by France of using his diplomatic status to sneak the drugs onto a jet belonging to the Saudi royal family. He managed to escape his sentencing and was convicted in absentia in 2007. The United States also indicted him with conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
Many wonder about Saudi Arabia with its alcohol and drug ban, but the harsh punishments for violations of Saudi Arabia’s interpretation of sharia law tend not to apply to the some 15,000 princes and princesses who belong to the royal House of Al Saud. In Saudi Arabia, only foreigners and non-royal citizens are punished: death by beheading.
Captagon pills are at the heart of the conflict in Syria, where their trade reportedly generates millions of dollars in revenue and helps fuel fighters addicted to the drugs. Besides the drug epidemic, surveys have shown that 46% of Saudi Uni students admit to being gay and engaged in homosexuality.
But the epidemic is not only in Saudi Arabia. Many questioned our interview with Taleb Ibrahim, a Syrian Middle East analyst who was also a lecturer at the High Institute of National Security in Syria who revealed to Shoebat.com the drug dealing that is just like the Saudis, Recep Tyyip Erdogan of Turkey, according to Ibrahim, uses military jets to cargo drugs from Afghanistan which has generated him up to $200 billion in drug money 70% of which ends up in the U.S.
In 2010, a leaked WikiLeaks cable described a royal underground party scene in Jeddah that was “thriving and throbbing” because Saudi officials looked the other way. The dispatch described a Halloween party, funded in part by a prince from the Al Thunayan family, where more than 150 young men and women dressed in costumes and slogged expensive alcohol, which is sold only on the black market in Saudi Arabia. “Though not witnessed directly at this event, cocaine and hashish use is common in these social circles,” the cable read.
Shoebat.com for years have discussed the biblical “Mystery Babylon” which prides itself on such imports:
“The merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her because no one buys their cargoes any more—cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble; car- goes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and bodies and souls of men” (Revelation 18:11-13).
Remarkably, these are the very imports of Saudi Arabia today. The items may be divided into three categories—but they are all things that she cannot produce herself. The three categories are luxury items, food items—both livestock and produce—and human slaves, even alcohol (wine).
While there are limited legal means to get alcohol and consume it privately in Saudi Arabia, there is also smuggling, which is thought to be more active through the eastern side of the country. Saudis interested in bringing in alcohol can do so from neighbouring Gulf states, especially Bahrain, where Saudis can travel easily via a causeway. Another smuggling route is from Jordan where spirits are available, and where some of it is manufactured, like beer and a spirit known as Araq.
Every product that the Bible mentions regarding the harlot fits Saudi Arabia’s imports. Even foreign workers living in “Mystery Babylon” who will have the freedom to flee. However, we are also told that there are many slaves in Mystery Babylon. While most would like to imagine that slavery is a thing of the past, slavery thrives in Saudi Arabia.
In Isaiah’s prophecy, and confirming Revelation 18 regarding the Harlot of Babylon, we see that in the midst of all of the Harlot’s sin and wickedness, she believes that no one sees her:
“You have trusted in your wickedness and have said, ‘No one sees me’” (Isaiah 47:10).
Revelation 18 also describes the Harlot as being utterly arrogant. In her heart she boasts, “I sit as queen; I am not a widow, and I will never mourn” (Revelation 18:7). This is also confirmed in Isaiah 47: “I will continue forever— the eternal queen!…I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or suffer the loss of children.” Its destruction, “will overtake you in a moment, on a single day” when Elam (Iran) nukes Saudi Arabia (Isaiah 21).
The Last-Day Babylon’s excessive luxury and debauchery which the Harlot expresses that no one is aware of, is typical of the Saudi Monarchy that is known for its hypocritical outward life of public piousness and secret debauchery.
Many argue that the harlot city is Rome because it produces marble, gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen etc. Yet a closer look at the text reveals that the Harlot city does not produce any of these items. In fact, she is an importer of these goods and not a producer: “And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their merchandise anymore…” (Revelation 18:11). These are the products that the Harlot city buys from such merchants and not sells to the merchants of the sea who watch her destruction from the Red Sea (Jeremiah 49:21).
“The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.” (Jeremiah 49:21)
This is crucial for it nullifies the Rome argument. Arabia and not Rome is “by the Red Sea”. Why would Rome import the very items that she already manufactures? In fact, all Saudi goods are imported via the Red Sea, and the list of goods match Saudi imports perfectly—gold, silver, precious stones, pearls, fine linen, vessels of ivory, fine wood and copper ware, iron, marble, spices, perfumes, liquor, sheep, horses, slaves and the souls of men. The Harlot city also imports slaves, horses and even ivory. Arabia imports all of these, yet Rome doesn’t. Saudi Arabia even imports wine (liquor) despite the Islamic prohibition. The Bible clearly says that it does its wickedness “in secret” and even that matches.