Middle East Focus: Saudi Haia and Drones, Number Two Potentates……..

Arabia Deserta

Saudi Haia and Drones, Number Two Potentates……..

Rattlesnake Ridge

BFF

Speaking of Drones of last year:
Once Arab despots realize all the uses they can put the drones to, they will be tripping all over each other trying to get some. From Riyadh to Abu Dhabi and Bahrain to.......... other places. That would be one way for the potentates to get closer to their people, the way the Obama administration has been getting increasingly closer to the Afghan and Pakistani peoples in their villages during the past two years. Closer than even Bush and Cheney got.

Next we’ll probably hear of the Saudis purchasing drones to supply their Commission for the Propagation of Vice, the Wahhabi religious police that tries to make sure nobody other than the princes is having any fun in the Kingdom without Magic.
Imagine: an average Saudi Joe somewhere in Nejd catching some ray, getting a suntan, in his backyard with the family. The Haia drones can catch them in the un-Godly act of suntanning and either have them arrested by the bearded local Taliban Mutawwa'een or just fire a couple of missiles at them, blasting them to kingdom come (just as the Americans do in Afghanistan or Pakistan). The religious cops (affectionately called the Haia by the media and by their own mothers but almost certainly called the equivalent of hijos de gran putas or assholes by ordinary Saudis). Yet to do all that the religious cops need to be trained by either the CIA or the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) on use of the drones. The Israeli IDF or even Mossad can offer to help as well, but not until there is a settlement and acceptance of the dead Tom Friedman-King Abdullah initiative.

The Haia drones can also be used for other purposes: they can detect a Christmas tree hidden in someone’s backyard, they can detect female drivers hidden on private lands, they can detect and fire missiles at protesters in places like Qatif. Hell, they can even be used to scout new young wives for the king and some of the older princes. Imagine, a Saudi version of eHarmony for the elderly royals.

Then the Bahrain al-Khalifa royals may then want to get in on the act. Why hire all these mercenaries from among Pakistanis and humorless Jordanians when they can use drones to control the towns and villages? I am talking armed drones of the Afpak type.
Then there are the al-Nahayan brothers of Abu Dhabi, once the biggest importers of weapons in the Middle East, now relegated to Number Two (literally and figuratively, if you know what I mean).
The possibilities are limitless...........
Cheers
mhg

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