Arson As Economic Warfare?

Jihadist activity?

The Saudis' U.S. Empire

(Hat tip to Mark Alexander of A New Dark Age Is Dawning)

From the Independent, date June 6, 2012:

Revealed: Saudi royals' secret $1bn US empire

A secret $1bn US property empire amassed by members of the Saudi royal family is the subject of a bitter legal dispute that threatens to reveal the extent of the family's American business interests.

The oil giant BP and the British defence contractor BAE Systems are among the tenants of companies associated with Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, the playboy son of the late King Fahd, according to court documents.

Lawyers for the companies are asking a judge to keep their ultimate ownership secret, but correspondence between the two sides currently remains on the record in a New York courthouse.

The documents reveal that over the past 15 years, Prince Abdul Aziz and a relative, Sheikh Khalid N Al Assaf, amassed a property portfolio that spans the US, from BAE offices in Reston, Virginia, near the capital Washington, to the headquarters of the television company Starz in California. They also purchased two of the four buildings in the office complex that BP uses as its US headquarters in Houston, Texas.

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Lawyers for the portfolio companies, meanwhile, are fighting to keep the prince's identity secret....

More at the above link.

It's economic jihad, perhaps the stealthiest kind of jihad.