Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has ordered former deputy Defense Minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz be put under house arrest.
The monarch apparently issued the order after the country’s intelligence services detected suspicious activities by the officers within the ground forces who are close to the former defense minister, mirataljazeera.net reported.
Saudi Prince Khaled bin Sultan – who made anti-Ethiopian remark last February
The king ordered the house arrest from Morocco where he was on a visit. The monarch cut short the trip and flew home to deal with the issue.
The investigation was carried out by a committee comprising six different security agencies. It revealed that the officers, in cahoots with the prince and the former governor of the Eastern Province Mohammed bin Fahad bin Abdul Aziz, currently residing in the United States, were planning to stage a coup d’état.
The website also said that the former defense minister is suspected of having a role in the coup.
Prince Khaled was dismissed by royal decree on April 21, 2013. Prince Fahd Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Abdulrahman, who was commander of Saudi naval forces since 2002, succeeded him. [PressTV – June 16, 2013, titled “Saudi princes planned military coup”]
It is to be recalled that Prince Khaled bin Sultan made anti-Ethiopian remarks last February, in the Arab Water Council held in Cairo Egypt, in the context of opposing Ethiopia’s right to use the Nile waters. The Price was quoted as saying:
“the Ethiopian Renaissance dam…is for political plotting rather than for economic gain and constitutes a threat to Egyptian and Sudanese national security”.
“The [Grand Ethiopian] Renaissance dam has its capacity of flood waters reaching more than 70 billion cubic meters of water, and is located at an altitude of 700 meters and if it collapsed then Khartoum will drown completely and the impact will even reach the Aswan Dam”.
“Egypt is the most affected party from the Ethiopian Renaissance dam because they have no alternative water source compared to other Nile Basin countries and the establishment of the dam 12 kilometers from the Sudanese border is for political plotting rather than for economic gain and constitutes a threat to Egyptian and Sudanese national security”.
“There are fingers messing with water resources of Sudan and Egypt which are rooted in the mind and body of Ethiopia. They do not forsake an opportunity to harm Arabs without taking advantage of it”.
“The establishment of the dam leads to the transfer of water supply from the front of Lake Nasser to the Ethiopian plateau, which means full Ethiopian control of every drop of water, as well as [causing] an environmental imbalance stirring seismic activity in the region as a result of the massive water weight laden with silt withheld in front of the dam, estimated by experts at more than 63 billion tonnes”.
[Acknowledgements to Mulu Beyene (an assistant of this blog from Oslo, Norway) who kept a close watch on this Prince and alerted us almost all the developments since April.]
This is ' indeed' an interesting spin on the whole affair. Egyptian Foreign Minister is sipping coffee in Addis while the ' Egytpian security apparatus' is all but determined to create chaos. Somalia has all but announced support to Egypt and Beshir was in Asmara for three days. I want to know what the Eritreans and Sudanese were talking about for 72 hours. Andargachew and his EPRP pundits have all but sold out. Perhaps it is time to mend ties with Asmara, given our needs for leverage against Djibouti. More over, given the billion plus ton of potash in the Danakil in need of cheaper outlet. Eritrea can benefit from cheap water and energy, I understand there are rumors that Qatar has leased Assab for fifty years to counter Dubai's control over Djbouti. We might have to compromise as allowing Eritrea to be a staging point for diversionary activities will only strengthen the Asmara Regime. We dont have to like them. But guess what, even Israelis and Palestinians conduct business despite animosity. We can't possible fight war on two or three fronts, Somalia, Eritrea, Egypt etc and keep peace rolling. Peace is a ' valuable commodity' worth protecting. We might have to bite the bullet and let them the disputed land as stipulated by the Algiers accords. We have ceded more fertile land to Sudan, based on dubious colonial era treaties, without fanfare and yet their leader is all over the map.
Eritrea after controlling the Red cost and land locking Ethiopia, now is planning to control the Blue Nile Basin with the help of Egypt.
The Eritrean Government is acting as a plate form for Egypt's historical plan to dominate the Nile, and be able to irrigate her arid southern farms in a dream of becoming a bread basket of Middle East.
Eritrea is known for its training and preparing proxy warriors in the Horn of Africa since here independence in 1993. Even the UN sanction did not intimidate the Red sea state. The living demonstration is Alshabab of Somalia. Isasias Afwerki is said to propose the preparation G7 for the proxy war with Addis Ababa for the control of the source of Blue Nile for Cairo.
In the recent meeting between the two regimes, Eritrea said to participate to realizing Egypt's century old ancestral dream of controlling the Blue Nile River.
The plan was once crafted with the out sated Dictator Mubarak in his time in power inherited from Jamal Abdel Nasser. The Eritrean Junta to create a new Nile basin state in the horn of Africa as a main base for food for Eritrea under the hegemony of Egypt. This is to assure once for all the source of the Blue Nile to be under the pharaoh's state control.
As we all know the Eritrean struggle was started and supported in 1960's by the Nasser's Egypt. This was done due to the the refusal of the Negus Haile Selassie to the Proposal of Egypt to create a Federation with Ethiopia and Sudan. A master plane to control the source and the flow of the Blue Nile discharging over 87% of the sweet life giving Water to Egypt and Sudan.
In the recent meeting, Eritrea proposed Egypt to use G7 (Genbot 7 Ethiopian Opposition in Eritrea) as a proxy agent to overthrow the regime in Addis Ababa and balkanize Ethiopia. The representative of G7 Mr. Andargachew Tsege was also present at the meeting according to our source in Eritrea. The meeting was held in the Egyptian Resort of the Red Sea. In consequence, in its recent news release the Isasias regime declared his support to Egypt to keep the Lion Share of the Nile according to 1929 and 1959 colonial pact,
Egypt has no other source of life giving water and the recent building of the Ethiopian new Renaissance mega dam of 145 Meter tall and 1KM 800M long with a reservoir of 63,000,000,000 m3 is expected to stop the follow the Blue Nile at list for 5 years. The mega dam has irritated the relation between Egypt and Ethiopia recently. The new Egyptian revolutionary regime wanted to assure by all means the survival of its over 80 million inhabitant.
As history is a living lesson, in 1900's Egypt had made two unsuccessful wars with Ethiopia in Eritrea with the help of European and US confederated mercenary fighters to have full hegemony over the source the Blue Nile.
According to our sources form Eritrean January 21st mutineers, G7 have already getting the necessary instruction by the Nile state through Eritrea for destabilizing the regime in Addis Ababa.
The new Revolutionary regime in Egypt is said to playing carrot and stake in its new geostrategic plan for Africa. In one hand Dr. Mursi calling rapprochement with Nile basin countries, on the other he is working to destabilizing them to slow down the damming of the river Nile.
The Eritrean B. G. Teleke Keflay alias Menjus is seen escorting Egyptian security forces close to Sawa in the Northern part of Eritrea. They were seen arriving on northern Eritrean Red Sea cost.
The Eritrean regime strategy is following the foot step of Egypt proposing peace with Ethiopia one hand and preparing war on the the other. Thus the long neglected Eritrea would revive financially and Geo strategically in the region.
Source http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUOGn_Sq35k from Asmara..
This their won eternal matter. They should deal according their own well. we should keep away our hand out of it.
He deserves to be behind the bars. He has a polluted criminal mind. What does he have with Ethiopia? they have every right to use their water and develop. The Egyptian, the Sudanese and the Ethiopians can sit and discuss their problems. Who is he to talk about Ethiopian Dam? What a waste!
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