Saudi Arabia's Historical Oil Conflicts

But what do you know about Saudi Arabia?

Has it been an enemy only since today? No.

Saudi Arabia, ever since

we came to know ourselves, we knew Saudi Arabia was our enemy.

And I'll show you why Saudi Arabia is an enemy. In sixty-nine,

there was an American company, Taban American, in Thawf Petrofood.

It worked at Bir Salim and Bir Nasi', discovered it in Tarifat, and oil came out.

Saudi Arabia came and took it.

It sent for it and took it away. Then an Algerian company came.

It surveyed, and Saudi Arabia took it away. Then came the company

from Russia.

From Qanab to Taf Shahr, it drilled more than one hundred wells.

The Russian company grew weary, and Saudi Arabia extorted it.

Every year they said, “Give us money,” and they gave them. Every year they said, “Give us money, or else

we'll leave.”

Near the end, I was a lieutenant in the army, and it drilled wells in

Shahr, in Arabah, in Dahiya, in Al-Far'ah,

in Ayouh, in Qanab. It drilled wells everywhere

and capped them.

Then Saudi Arabia told it, “Give me the documents, and I'll give you

everything you want.” And indeed, the Russians took money, took so much they could never get enough,

and left. After the Russian company came a company

Agip, the Italian company, built a city in the sea.

Does anyone remember it? Does anyone remember the city they built in the sea and that emerged?

It happened. At the time, Salem Salem Salem Hassan was governor.

These were the exploration methods in Al-Mahwar, and they brought a large glass bottle, like

a barrel, with crude oil from the sea in it. At night,

you could see the platforms in the sea, like a city.

So our good neighboring sister went to Italy, to Rome

and negotiated with the company there.

After a week, it packed all this up and left. Then came

the company,

Al-Nimr—

no, Petro-Canada. Petro-Canada drilled in Hat

and made, made an embankment from Oman to Barshit.

We were civilians, and it brought the rig and drilled for oil.

Saeed, someone from its security, Saeed Hali Kouk.

And the brother from Education was in Hat and saw Saudis who had come.

He negotiated with the company,

and they took it away.

They poured cement into it and took it away,

and left.

Then, then Al-Nimr came and left. Then

the French company CCJ came and left. Then came

the Taqalo company in Dhahun, stopped it, and left.

Okay, why? Why do we want

and insist on the house when we get nothing from it? And we have a nuclear bomb.

We want Saudi Arabia to spare us its evil,

respect our dignity

and let us live with dignity off our land.