| THE SCORES HAVE BEEN ATTAINED USING DOCUMENTED FACTS.
DIRECT OR INDIRECT INVOLVEMENT CAN AFFECT THE
SCORE AS HIGH AS ONE POINT. |
SCORE |
| MURDER :in the late
sixties, Fahd, when still a Minister of Interior arranged for the
kidnapping, torturing, and killing of a Palestinian writer named Nasser
Al-Said. Al-Said wrote a book against al-Saud family that apparently hit
its target and whose writer paid for with his life. Another writer named
Mohammad Mirri was also killed by Fahd and Naef, his brother.
Let us not forget that Fahd's murders of Kings Faisal in 1975
(through instigation of his nephew) and Khaled in 1982 (through
poisoning). |
10 |
| EMBEZZLEMENT : King Fahd
is the King of thieves. He schemed the famous "Oil to Rotterdam"
heist which history will record as the largest heist in the history of
mankind. Fahd, unlike his brothers, has his fingers in every pie in Saudi
Arabia. From construction to oil to defense to telecommunications. If it
is big enough, he or his sons have kickbacks and bribes in the hundreds
and sometimes in the billions of US Dollars. |
10 |
| BRIBERY : Although we
are not aware of a specific case where Fahd was involved directly in
bribing someone (Directly is the keyword here), his cronies have bribed
their way to the Saudi Treasury and back. Something they would not dare do
had they not received orders from the master himself. Ignoring his
involvement in this is like saying that Goering did not commit the German
atrocities in World War II but his people did. |
9½ |
| DEFRAUD : King Fahd has
defrauded the government of Saudi Arabia ever since he was powerful enough
to seek kickbacks, bribes and to steal from the Saudi Treasury, which is
to say late sixties. A smile comes across Fahd every time someone mentions
Sultan of Brunei as being the richest man in the world. Only Fahd knows
how much he defrauded the Saudi Treasury. That information will one day be
public by a generation in Saudi Arabia similar to the one brought to the
Philippines embodied by the Acquinos after the departure of the Marcos. |
10 |
| RACKETEER : Although we
are not aware of a specific case where Fahd was involved directly in
racketeering, his cronies such as the Ibrahim family, have publicly used
this tactic to pull more millions in their coffers. Something they would
not dare do had they not been condoned from the master himself. |
8 |
| CO-MINGLE : King Fahd is
famous for this act. When in 1987, through the goodwill of Rafic Hariri,
he delivered funds to Lebanon to pave some streets, the truck signs read :
"A gift from His Majesty King Fahd". The funds in fact came from
the Saudi Treasury. Fahd thinks that the oil belongs to his family and
that every penny earned is theirs. On so many occasions, he would gift
something to a university or a government office under his name when in
fact the government paid for it. Co-mingling is Fahd's premier trademark. |
10 |
| MONOPOLY : Fahd is not a
monopolizer except for two things : Power and money. He controls totally
government funds disbursements and expenditures in addition, he controls
totally who governs and does not. Beside that, he does not monopolize
anything else. |
10 |
| CONSPIRACY : Fahd is a
master of conspiracy. he conspired to kill his brothers : Faisal and
Khaled. He has conspired to fund fundamentalism, the Iran-contra fiasco,
the Afghanistan war, buying missiles from China, the war in Yemen,
toppling stable Arab regimes through funding of extremist elements, the
Iraqi-Iranian war, and the list goes on. What he publicly says is exactly
the opposite of what he does. |
10 |
| CORRUPTION : This general term is the essence of this scoreboard. The
cumulative effect on the Saudi Society with Fahd's actions and reactions
is what is scored here. The outcome of his decisions, policies, acts,
performance as a politician are compiled and scored here. The score reflects what Saudi Arabia thinks of King Fahd. |
10 |
| DEBAUCHERY: King Fahd used to be called a playboy in the 1970's
because of his debaucheries and constant pursuit of anything walking with
a skirt. Although his harem have diminished in importance, his use of
women as sex objects continued for years to come. |
10 |
| TOTAL SCORE |
97½ |
