https://www.albawaba.com/node/secrets-exposure-what-does-russia-know-about-911-beirut-port-blast-and-hariri-assassination

Secrets Exposure! What Does Russia Know About 9/11, Beirut Port Blast and Hariri Assassination?

Some people claimed that Russia has real evidence and wanted to share it to prove that the US government and its intelligence are allegedly involved in the 9/11 tragic incident. They also claimed that a Russian intelligence official stated that his country is ready to share the evidence that includes satellite images.

However, no official statement from a valid Russian source was made about Moscow’s intent to share such information or documents.

Furthermore, last year and upon the Lebanese president’s request, Russia sent the satellite images it had for Beirut's port before and after the huge explosion, according to the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following his talks with his Lebanese counterpart in Moscow.

About 9/11, Beirut port blast and Rafic Hariri killing:

The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated attacks by the militant Islamist terrorist network Al-Qaeda against the United States back in 2001. The attacks resulted in 2,977 fatalities, over 25,000 injuries, in addition to at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage.

The Beirut port blast, on August 4, 2020, is the second-worst explosion in the world killing at least 218 and injuring more than 7,000 people. It also caused $15 billion in property damage and left around 300,000 people homeless.

Rafic Al-Hariri was a Lebanese business tycoon and politician who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until his resignation on 20 October 2004. He was assassinated on 14 February 2005 by a suicide truck bomb in Beirut.

>> Just another conspiracy theory or…? If true, why release all the information at the same time? Don’t you think one event will over shadow the other 2? Why not release one at a time, separately? Is it because the culprit is the same?

>>16575829

Get ready and get ready as much as you can. I don’t know how much time is left. If you have prepared, prepare for more and more. It’s going to be harsher than what you think. You will have no water, no electricity and no gas. It means you won’t be able to wash clothes in the machine, you won’t have water to shower and you won’t have the stove to cook nor your refrigerator will work. Not to mention you won’t have any lights at all. Prepare accordingly and buy canned stuff and survival stuff, mostly if you are in a hot urban zone. It’s going to be big and it’s going to be very harsh, more than you can imagine. If you are feeling the burn from the inflation right now, you haven’t seen anything yet. The prices will go up 300 %, at least, regardless where you live. This is a low estimate.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/eu-berlin-looking-to-end-transit-ban-to-kaliningrad

EU, Berlin, looking to end transit ban to Kaliningrad

According to German daily Der Spiegel, the dispute regarding the blockade initiated by Lithuania over the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is picking up pace, with signs showing that the measures could soon be lifted.

Lithuania banned the transit of goods through Lithuanian territory to and from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, citing EU sanctions against Russia.

The goods in question include coal, metals, construction materials, and advanced technology, and the ban covers around 50% of the region's imports.

Since the blockade was initiated, the EU Commission and Lithuania have been discussing whether goods being transited to and from Kaliningrad are subject to EU sanctions. Now, Germany is pushing for an exemption for the exclave in order to avoid a European escalation against Russia.

According to Der Spiegel, there is anger in Germany against Lithuania's actions, as Berlin does not share the assessment that the transit of sanctioned goods to Kaliningrad should not take place through EU territory, saying that this is a case of transport from Russia to Russia, and that is allowed.

Berlin also fears that a blockade against Kaliningrad would force Russia's hand into using force to create a land corridor. German soldiers stationed in Lithuania could become involved in a possible conflict, which Germany doesn't want.

A possible solution for the problem should be in place by July 10, when the next batch of sanctions is due to come into force.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/johnson-knew-of-mps-sexual-misconduct-when-giving-him-party

Johnson knew of MP's sexual misconduct when giving him party position

Politico reported on Friday that UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been aware of all sexual harassment charges against Conservative MP Christopher Pincher at the time he was appointed as Deputy Chief of the Conservative Party.

UK broadcaster Sky News reported earlier in the day that the 52-year-old lawmaker "groped two men in front of others" in a drunken state at a club in central London on Thursday evening. The Tory MP later apologized for his behavior and said that he was resigning from his position.

Despite resigning, Pincher said he would continue his activities as an ordinary lawmaker.

Several Tory MPs had called on Johnson in February not to appoint Pincher to such a key position, wherein he would be "responsible for discipline and welfare of the party", according to two MPs and government officials.

Johnson was explicitly warned of Pincher's sexual harassment allegations.

"As soon as his name was in the running, people went into No. 10, including MPs, with new allegations about what he’d done," one of the officials said, as quoted by Politico.

Pincher also served as Minister of State for Europe and the Americas from July 2019 to February 2020.

This is all happening amid Tory losses in by-elections, and a decline in public support for the British Conservative Party, which had been rocked by successive scandals, most notably the PM's own Partygate scandals.

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https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-media:-israel-looking-to-sell-air-defense-systems-to

Israeli media: "Israel" looking to sell air defense systems to KSA

Israeli media outlets reported on Friday that the occupation is interested in selling air defense systems to Saudi Arabia during US President Joe Biden's upcoming visit.

Israeli Kan TV's military expert Itay Blumental said, answering a question on whether there is an interesting plan that "Israel" wants to push forward during Biden's visit, that "According to estimates, 'Israel' over the coming weeks will try to push forward a security deal with Saudi Arabia, one that will involve the sale of air defense systems."

Blumental further noted that this will all take place under US sponsorship, as "Israel" and Saudi Arabia do not share official diplomatic relations.

He also added that it's expected that Biden will meet with Israeli Security Minister Benny Gantz, and Israeli Chief of the General Staff Aviv Kochavi. During the meeting, Biden will listen to a briefing on Israeli air defense systems, like the Iron Dome, and the Hetz.

This, according to Blumental, involves agreements with Gulf countries, and it can be said that in the last few weeks some transport aircraft landed in Ovda Airforce base, "and not more can be said on why the planes landed there."

The White House announced on June 14 that Biden will visit both "Israel" and Saudi Arabia during his trip in West Asia.

Following the announcement of the trip, Biden said that part of his visit to Saudi Arabia concerns Israeli security.

>> MBS good or bad?

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/libya:-protestors-storm-parliament-in-tobruk

Libya: Protestors storm parliament in Tobruk

According to reports by Libyan media, protestors stormed Libya's parliament building in the eastern city of Tobruk on Friday.

The protestors were demonstrating against worsening living conditions and the political deadlock that has plagued the country for months.

Some television channels said protestors managed to enter the building and commit acts of vandalism, with others saying part of the building was burned.

The building was empty, as Friday falls on the weekend in Libya.

Libya's parliament has been based in Tobruk, hundreds of kilometers east of the capital, since the country's east-west schism began in 2014.

Images revealed that protestors were able to smash part of a gate leading to parliament with a bulldozer, with others setting the cars of some officials on fire. Others still were throwing official documents into the air, while committing acts of vandalism.

Al Mayadeen's correspondent in Geneva, quoting a UN source, reported on Wednesday that the Libyan parties have reached an understanding with a document expected to be signed.

The source said that "the document to be signed is very important, and will open the door to a serious path towards the elections," adding that "the document will be presented to the Libyan authorities and parties, to be approved before moving to the implementation phase."

>>Check out all of Africa. Major clean up underway in many countries there. What was that order again from Q post?

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/dod-announces-820m-package-for-ukraine-germany-exports-584m

DoD announces $820M package for Ukraine, Germany exports $584M in arms

The US Pentagon announced Friday another package of security assistance for Ukraine worth $820 million that includes two advanced surface-to-air missile systems and four additional counter-artillery radars in light of the war in Ukraine.

"This afternoon, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced $820 million in additional security assistance for Ukraine," the Pentagon said in a press release. "Included in this package are: Two National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS); Up to 150,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition; and Four additional counter-artillery radars."

The new package also includes additional ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) that Washington had previously pledged to Ukraine, the release said.

The United States announced sending a new batch of military supplies to Ukraine, the White House said on Thursday. The new batch is worth $450 million of arms that include more rocket systems for Ukraine to use against the Russian forces.

Earlier that day, Ukraine received a batch of HIMARS, weapons set on top of the Ukrainian wishlist, and the Ukrainian Minister of Defense Oleksiy Reznikov thanked, via his Twitter account, his “colleague and friend Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III for these powerful tools!"

Since the start of the war, the United States has deployed more than 100,000 of its troops to NATO member states.

Berlin approves $584 million worth of arms to Ukraine

Ukraine became the second-largest market for German armaments after Berlin approved the exports of 562 million euros ($584 million) worth of arms to Kiev in the first six months of 2022, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) said Friday.

BMWK said in a report that the German cabinet had approved a total of $4.31 billion in arms exports worldwide, a two-fold increase year on year.

The Netherlands still held first place in terms of arms exports from Germany, with arms deliveries amounting to $1.87 billion. Ukraine, on the other hand, came in second with approved exports averaging $584 million.

The European Union, NATO, and allies, including Ukraine and South Korea, accounted for 92% of all approved German arms export deals in the first half of the year - a total of $3.96 billion in agreed contracts.

For German arms-producing firms to sign defense contracts, they require the approval of the German cabinet. The number of concluded contracts, however, does not represent the actual arms supplies made during the said period since the deliveries could only be made after the government's approval and may take place after the reporting period.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/poll:-25-of-americans-willing-to-take-up-arms-against-us-gov

Poll: 25% of Americans willing to take up arms against US government

A poll released on Thursday revealed a deteriorating situation on the social grounds of the US: More than 25% of US residents feel so alienated by their government, that they believe it may be “soon be necessary to take up arms” against it.

Around 1,000 registered US voters participated in the survey, which was published by the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics. The survey, furthermore, revealed that most US citizens agree that the US government is "corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me."

As the data suggests, extreme polarization in US politics, which has impacted social relationships, is higher than ever at the moment.

The statistics obtained come at the same time when hearings for the attack on the US Capitol are broadcasted on television - the attack is based on divisive premises that Biden did not win the 2020 election, and that Trump is the US' legitimate president. Rioters violently stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election results.

Although the rioters attacked both Democrats and Republicans, Trump loyalists have insisted that the committee investigating the January 6 events is illegitimate.

Furthermore, the survey indicates that there is an increasing distrust in the US government, and that distrust varies from party to party. For instance, 56% of participants said that in general, they trust elections to be conducted fairly and counted accurately, while Republicans, Democrats and independents carry different convictions regarding this point.

The vast divide can be directly linked to the January 6 riots: While Democrats have plenty of trust in the aforementioned item (80%), only 33% of Republicans exhibited trust. In the middle comes the independents, 51% of which showed trust in the US government.

According to the poll, 49% of Americans said they feel “more and more feel like a stranger in my own country” - a display of a sharp wedge in American unity, which is backed by how the participants identified themselves: 69% of the participants identified as "strong Republicans," 65% described themselves to be "very conservative" persons, and 38% "strong Democrats."

Of the 28% of voters who said that they may soon need to take up arms against their government, 37% said they had guns in their homes. A third of Republicans, which also includes 45% of "strong Republicans" held the belief of taking up arms. But, that is not all: 35% of independent voters and 20% of Democrats agreed, too.

Now, when it came to in-group-out-group tensions and aggression, 73% of Republicans agreed that “Democrats are generally bullies who want to impose their political beliefs on those who disagree,” and “an almost identical percentage of Democrats (74%) express that view of Republicans”.

"These poll results are perhaps the starkest evidence of the deep divisions in partisan attitudes rippling through the country,” said Neil Newhouse, a Republican pollster who conducted the survey in May.

>> Who's in control?

>>16576073

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/iraqi-pmf-arrests-one-of-speicher-massacre-main-perpetrators

Iraqi PMF arrests one of Speicher Massacre main perpetrators

Sources informed Al Mayadeen on Friday that the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq have arrested one of the Speicher Massacre's main perpetrators.

The terrorist called Dergham Abou Haidar reportedly executed hundreds of men in the infamous massacre.

Abou Haidar, according to Al Mayadeen's sources, confessed to having formed groups that partook in the massacre. He was being supported by a network of ISIS terrorists before being caught.

The Speicher Massacre was perpetrated by ISIS terrorists on June 12, 2014. Close to 2,000 students of the Speicher military Air Force Academy in Tikrit, north of Iraq, were killed in the massacre.

ISIS terrorists executed hundreds of unarmed Iraqi youths, and savagely mutilated the bodies of some. The massacre was recorded and published in order to spread fear among Iraqis.

An Iraqi court sentenced on June 27, 2021, nine people convicted of partaking in the massacre, noting that all the men in question confessed to having partaken in the crime and in the killing of a number of innocents as part of their terrorist agenda.

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/technology/silencing-dissidence:-israeli-bots-spam-report-pro-palestine

Silencing dissidence: Israeli bots spam, report pro-Palestine accounts

An article by MintPress News exposes how "Israel" uses intimidating tactics on the internet to silence its critics. Just how? Israeli bots.

By the end of April, Ines Abdel Razek woke up to find 80 new followers on Twitter.

“These accounts were following the exact same people that were tweeting about Palestine, but from France or Francophone accounts that work on Palestine,” Abdel Razek said, speaking about the demography of the new followers.

Abier Khateb, a grants manager at Open Society Foundations, also reported mass followings - in response, an advocacy director of Rabet, which is the digital platform for the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, became wary of it.

Speaking to MintPress News, Razek started reporting every account as fake, however keeping her own account open. After a few days, she made her profile private. At the peak of the mass following, Razek saw 400 fake followers.

From the end of April through the first weeks of May, over 40 pro-Palestine accounts on Twitter have claimed mass followings. According to digital experts, when accounts acquire large numbers of fake followers, this triggers Twitter's algorithm and can lead to account suspension, forcing users to make their accounts private to avoid suspension - a censorship tactic.

Some of the human rights and activist organizations that have experienced this are Adalah, Combatants for Peace, Breaking the Silence, and Al Mezan Center for Human Rights. They also included news publications and journalists, like The Palestine Chronicle, The Electronic Intifada director Ali Abunimah, and Hind Al-Eryani; and politicians, such as Husam Zomlot, the Palestinian ambassador to the United Kingdom.

An assistant professor at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar, Dr. Marc Owen Jones, said that he had conducted an analysis and found that there were more than 1,150 fake accounts in total, of which 1,090 Twitter deleted.

The accounts, according to Jones, were created using an automated process rather than the regular account creation time which takes up to 3 minutes. The profiles, furthermore, were in French, Spanish, German and English - but, very often, they also had Arabic bios with strange names, like Noble Betty Thomas, and zero followers.

“They had clearly made-up names,” said Sarah Lea Whitson, who has also experienced a similar phenomenon. “The vast majority of them had Israeli names and Israeli addresses. Some of them had made-up Arab names, which were mangled. It’s clear that they’re [using] stolen images of people.”

Whitson does not see the bot as censorship, but rather an attack on free speech: “It’s a form of targeted harassment and bullying,” she said. “It’s a targeted attack on people who are speaking freely, including journalists and human rights activists.”

>> The irony of it all.

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Daniel Easterman, in response to the incident, created a free script that automatically reports and blocks bots.

“When you see such a dramatic increase in followers, it’s usually somebody manipulating the system for commercial gain,” Easterman said. “So that could trigger Twitter to automatically flag that as suspicious activity and suspend the activist’s account.”

This would not be the first time something like this happens: In 2017, Iona Craig, who was reporting on the war on Yemen, was spammed with thousands of fake followers - the fake followers came mainly from Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Jones says this is a form of suppression of free speech on social media; he wrote on Twitter:

"Some suggest it’s a means to degrade the algorithmic quality of a Twitter account so that it possibly gets suspended; some suggest it’s others trying to boost popularity of an account. When it’s unsolicited, as in this case, I tend to think it’s more of a targeting operation. I am naturally cynical, but most people who get a sudden influx of fake followers feel unnerved and uncomfortable. If that fact is widely known, it functions as a tool of surveillance and potentially intimidation (e.g., you are being watched). It also makes many people mute their accounts for a bit which has a censorship effect.”

The murder of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, furthermore, was not safe from the swarms of Israeli bots. In the last week, Jones detected 2,800 fake accounts on the prowl for pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist Twitter accounts. Most of the accounts' bios are written in English with a location: "Israel."

The reason for the influx of followers remains unclear. “Those who get followed understandably find it intimidating, as if a form of surveillance or a technique to try and degrade [the] quality of an account with low-quality follows,” Jones wrote on Twitter. “The fact remains, these are clearly fake accounts and ruin the experience of Twitter.”

Palestinian digital-rights experts have for a long time condemned the increasing censorship of Palestinian content on the internet.

During the May 2021 war on Gaza and the storming of the Al-Aqsa mosque, Palestinian activists also reported that social media platforms were removing their content on Israeli violence and ethnic cleansing in the name of violation of community guidelines. Last month, activists in Jordan reported that posts on Israeli violence in Al-Aqsa were taken down and the respective accounts were blocked. According to 7amleh, The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, the Israeli cyber unit in the government sends content-removal requests to Facebook, Google and Youtube, particularly against Palestinian content.

Cyber censorship and intimidation are just one of the many tacts used by the Israeli establishment to silence their critics, cyber cracking down on netizens exposing Israeli violence and colonial aggression.

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>>16576294

confirmed. beating the war drums. the war that will end all wars is around the corner.

https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/feature/the-forgotten-massacre-of-yemeni-pilgrims-in-tanomah-sadwan

The forgotten massacre of Yemeni pilgrims in Tanomah, Sadwan of Saudi Arabia

In 1923, gangs belonging to the founder of Saudi Arabia Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud shot dead over 3,000 Yemeni pilgrims heading toward Mecca to perform the annual Hajj.

When they arrived in Tanomah and Sadwan in Asir of Saudi Arabia, the gangs called Al-Ghatghat started shooting the pilgrims, killing 3,105 peaceful pilgrims, according to Professor Hamoud Al-Ahnoumi, author of the book titled "The Great Massacre of Pilgrims…The massacre of Yemeni pilgrims in Tanomah and Sadwan by Ibn Saud’s gangs in 1923."

Al-Ahnoumi told Al Mayadeen English, citing Yahya bin Ali Al-Dhari's manuscript archived at the Great Mosque of Sanaa, that one of the scholars, Ahmed Al-Washli who arrived from Mecca, said: "the number of survivors was about 500 people, of whom 150 continued their way to Hajj."

Speaking about what pushed Ibn Saud to commit this crime, Ahnoumi said this massacre was a British "acceptance test" for him to be its man in the region.

"Britain was preparing Ibn Saud to be its first man and main agent in the region, who would implement its disruptive and differentiating project, but it wanted him to carry out an acceptance test that would qualify him to be its man who could carry out any ugly thing it asked of him," Ahnoumi said.

He added, due to the fact that Yemenis would not allow Ibn Saud to control the Two Holy Mosques with the UK's support, the two sides committed Tanomah and Sadwan massacre to prevent Yemenis from defending the two holy sites, stressing that the "Tanomah massacre took place in 1923 and the storming of the Two Holy Mosques by Ibn Saud with British support took place in 1924."

According to Ahnoumi, the war between Yemen and Saudi Arabia broke out in 1934 and ended with the Treaty of Taif, with this massacre being one of the causes of the war.

The following is the full text of the Al Mayadeen English interview with Professor Hamoud Al-Ahnoumi.

Was Ibn Saud’s reaction to the massacre of Yemeni pilgrims similar to the reaction of Mohammed bin Salman's reaction to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi?

The bloody approach on which the Saudi rule was founded with colonial support since the so-called first Saudi state is a continuous approach, and what we call today the hideous and horrible ISIS behavior towards opponents is the behavior that the Saud family and their authority have adopted since the first day.

When the soldiers of the Saud family shot and killed those [Yemeni] pilgrims in an ambush while they are safe, then slaughter them with swords and knives and separate their heads from their bodies, as proven by the numerous documents that we have received, and similar incidents occurred before and after that like when the Saudi regime kills Khashoggi, who lived his life as a Saudi regime propagandist, but when he began directing some of his advice to them, they dismembered him, which emphasizes that the bloody Saudi approach has not changed and that it is a behavior rooted genetically within this bloody entity with a colonial function.

How was Ibn Saud able to cover up this crime and bury it, and what was the position of America and Britain regarding this massacre?

Ibn Saud was able to cover up and bury the massacre through four things:

1- Investing a lot of money flowing from oil to clean the dirt and filth of the regime, creating a local, regional and global environment that only displays the advantages, many of which are exaggerated, and works to bury all the crimes committed and have been perpetrated by the Saudi entity.

2- The rulers of the Saud family directed their universities and centers to hold international conferences and symposiums where many researchers and academics are usually summoned, and a lot of money is bestowed upon them, provided that they write extensive praises and favors for the rulers of the Saud family, and bury all their shortcomings, which produced many armies of scribes, researchers, centers and universities with a mission to fawn over the Saud family, and this is well known in academic circles.

3-They punished everyone who wrote about the truth, and deprived them of their wealth. Moreover, they even punished truthtellers by depriving them of Hajj and Umrah throughout their lives, as happened to the professor of modern and contemporary history, Professor Sayed Mustafa Salem, may God have mercy on him, whom the Saudis looked at with disdain, despite him trying to be fair and objective. Yet the Saudis did not accept him unless he was part of the flock, otherwise, he should not enter Saudi Arabia for Hajj and Umrah.

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4-When the Saud family took control of the sovereign, political, educational, and cultural decisions in Yemen, and framed the rulers of Yemen within the Saudi Special Committee, and paid their salaries, a lot of constant pressure was applied to all writings, newspapers, magazines, and universities that could produce something of the truth.

There are many writers who were disposed of articles, which exposed the Saudi regime and its crimes, were either deleted or banned from publication. Many Yemeni personalities who were resistant to the Saudi policy of subjugation were targeted with murder, creating problems for them, and fighting them in their jobs and businesses.

Here, I present the end of Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Wajeeh, who wrote in his academic theses about Asir and the Yemeni-Saudi conflict, and when he returned to Yemen he was prevented from obtaining a professor’s seat at Sana’a University. When the court ruled that he should have the seat, he was killed in mysterious circumstances along with his family members in a mysterious traffic accident.

Regarding the American position, we did not see it at the time as its star did not shine until after the Second World War. Regarding the British position, it certainly looked at the massacre with satisfaction and saw that it had achieved its colonial goals. Two British documents dealt with the massacre, sent by one of their officials, in which the UK reduced the number of pilgrims killed by those he named Wahhabi hardliners. But turning a blind eye to this horrific crime and not commenting on it politically indicates responsibility for the massacre.

What prompted Ibn Saud to commit this massacre against peaceful pilgrims, with unparalleled ugliness?

The Yemeni government at that time was resistant to Britain, and Imam Yahya Hamid al-Din refused to engage in the First World War with Britain against Turkey, although he was the one who led the Yemeni revolution against the Turkish occupation, because he saw that it is not permissible to support an infidel colonial state against an Islamic state, he refrained from participating, unlike Ibn Saud and the Sharif of Mecca. Then Britain tried to punish Yemen by occupying Hodeidah from 1918 to 1921, and then handing it over to its client Mohammed al-Idrisi.

From time to time, Imam Yahya sought to restore the occupied areas in the south of Yemen, and he used to make disturbing statements against Britain in this regard. At the same time, Ibn Saud was occupying parts of Asir of Yemen, and the Imam was asking him to evacuate it as it is a Yemeni land.

At that time, Britain was preparing Ibn Saud to be its first man and primary agent in the region, who would implement its disruptive and differentiating project, but it wanted him to carry out an acceptance test that would qualify him to be its man who could carry out any ugly thing it asked of him.

Since the Yemenis are deeply and historically connected with the Two Holy Mosques, Britain and Ibn Saud wanted to suppress any tendency of the Yemenis to support the Two Holy Mosques when the British and Saudis carry out their plan to seize the Two Holy Mosques for their new and main agent Ibn Saud.

This is what actually happened, as the Tanomah massacre took place in 1923, and the storming of the Two Holy Mosques by Ibn Saud with British support took place in 1924, after they succeeded in sending a savage and terrifying message to all Yemenis that go away from the Two Holy Mosques because we are coming to slaughter you, and kill you in this way that we killed pilgrims.

Therefore, Britain ordered Ibn Saud to carry out this crime, but at the hands of an ideological and Wahhabi military group called Al-Ghatghat, who saw in the general Muslims that they were polytheists and infidels who should be killed and their money looted, while seeing such heinous acts as a reward that can draw them closer to God.

How did the Imam of Yemen react to this massacre?

Unfortunately, the plan by Britain and Ibn Saud was to commit the massacre and blame a third party, which the Yemeni government could not reach. As soon as the crime occurred, Ibn Saud sent a letter disavowing the crime, and that he had nothing to do with it.

The Imam asked Ibn Saud to sentence the killers according to God’s judgment, considering that they were among his soldiers who were under his command, and the Imam hoped that retribution would be taken from them, but Ibn Saud, being the one who ordered the massacre, eluded at the beginning and promised that the issue would be resolved.

The imam at that time was suffering from some internal rebellions, and was busy building his new state, but as soon as Ibn Saud’s military and economic position became strong, he openly turned on the imam and began to address him disrespectfully in his correspondence.

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And despite the imam’s government continuing to raise the grievance of the Tanomah martyrs in bilateral meetings, Arabic conferences, and mediations, Ibn Saud disavowed the crime in the end completely, and refused to treat the file, and refused the reimbursement of victims' families; because he was of the opinion that this would constitute an admission of the crime, and would take away the political and moral gains he had obtained from it.

Then the war [between Yemen and Saudi Arabia] broke out in 1934 which ended with the Treaty of Taif, and one of the causes of the war was this massacre.

Syrian traveler and historian Nazih Moayad Alazem, who visited Yemen in 1927, mentioned in his book "Journey in Arabia Felix" that the number of this massacre's martyrs was between 5000-6000. What was the accurate number of martyrs and how did you investigate it?

Due to the lack of accurate statistics for the pilgrims at that time, multiple accounts were issued by historians about their number, but the number that settled on the Yemeni and Saudi parties at the time through their correspondence and documents said that they were more than three thousand martyrs, and we have received accurate statistics transmitted by Mr. Yahya bin Ali Al-Dhari in a manuscript in the Great Mosque [of Sanaa], that one of the scholars, Ahmed Al-Washli, arrived from Mecca, and stated that the Pilgrims were 3,105 pilgrims.

Alazem mentioned in his book that those who survived the massacre were between seven to five… How accurate is that, and did you know the survivors or meet their sons or relatives?

The aforementioned manuscript mentioned that the number of survivors was about 500 people, of whom 150 continued their way to Hajj after fleeing to Tihama of Asir, and they rode to Jeddah, which is a very reasonable number, with evidence that we were able to obtain the names of dozens of these survivors from their children and grandchildren.

We did not meet any of the survivors, but we have interviewed dozens of their children and grandchildren, and documented their news in my book "The Great Massacre of Pilgrims", and work is still underway to document the largest possible number of martyrs and survivors.

After 99 years of the massacre… What can be done so that the international community moves to recognize this massacre and ensure that Saudi Arabia does not go unpunished?

Everyone admits that more than 3,000 martyrs of Yemeni pilgrims were killed by a Saudi ideological military formation, under the orders of Ibn Saud, and therefore the Saudi regime is first responsible for this massacre criminally, politically, morally, and ethically, which lawyers classify as a crime against humanity.

It took place in the context of security and peace, not in the shadow of war, and such type of crime is an imprescriptible offense, as there is a possibility, according to legal experts, to file lawsuits against the Saudi regime before international courts, and this needs the support of the state, lawyers, and human rights organizations, with the support of families of the victims.

I also call for the issuance of a law regulating the filing of lawsuits before Yemeni courts, the establishment of a special court for this crime, and the issuance of judgments in that, and soon the day will come when the Yemenis will impose on the Saudi regime the implementation of these provisions.

All in all, the Yemenis have a Quranic legitimacy in remedying themselves and taking justice into their own hands for their victims. The Almighty said: {And if anyone is slain wrongfully, we have given his heir authority (to demand qisas )} and this is the strongest legitimacy that can be relied upon.

Part 3 - End