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A MAN HAS been arrested after shots were fired at a house in the Clondalkin area of Dublin last night.
Gardaí were called at around 9.20pm when a number of shots were fired at the house on Greensfort Crescent. Damaged was caused to the windows and exterior of the house, but none of the occupants of the house were injured.
Gardaí said those involved fled the scene on foot. A man in his 20s was arrested near the scene by members of the Armed Support Unit (ASU) a short time later.
He is currently detained under Section 30 of the Offences against the State Act, 1939 at Ronanstown garda station.
The scene has been preserved for forensic and technical examination.
Gardaí are appealing for witnesses to contact the incident room at Ronanstown garda station 01 6667700 or the Garda Confidential Line 1800 666 111.
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A truly disgusting, dangerous and enabled regime. And some Americans are complaining about Cuba still?
Watched it and wasn’t one bit surprised as Saud uses Sunni Islamism as a tool to rule. The British govt statement about the Saudi’s helping to prevent terrorist attacks is a joke – they are the greatest procreators of hate around including towards their fellow Shias. All wsstern govts should shun them until the stop spreading their evil cult messages.
Let’s not forget our very own President McAleese addressed a segregated crowd there. She told them the people of Ireland abhorred the publication of Mohammad cartoons in Denmark.
Didn’t see it but would like to, why was it taken off website?
Jane The Sheikh was displeased and brown envelopes were passed around.
Saudi has a lot of oil so Eu/Usa will not criticize them. Why has the movie been pulled? Trying tosuppress free speech? Hide the truth behind the mindset of the crazed Wahabbi Sunnis? No wonder people are frightened of them. Feel really sorry for the poor people that have been hanged de-capitated and stoned. Horrific human rights abuses of women. Do I hear Sutherland/UN sticking up for them?? No, silence $$$$$$$
Saudi Arabia is controlled by big oil and big banks and the ruling House of Saud, who get a nice slice of the pie, are there to maintain order by any means possible and to promote their extremism to other neighbouring nations to put them under the same yoke but it all goes back to certain banking dynasties and if you look at the Central Bank act of 1942 of Ireland, you will find the same Banking dynasty control our own.
Saudi Arabia exports Wahabbism, the root of ISIS/Daesh. Their cohorts are present in Ireland and throughout the Western world.
Saudi Arabia sells oil to the West, which sells arms and military equipment bask to Saudi Arabia.
It’s a cosy arrangement and if a few thousand civilians in the West have to die for it, then so be it.
Time for the Sans Culottes.
They use wahabi-ism
I’m sure it’s someway off, but what future lies ahead for the people of Saudi Arabia when the oil runs out?
@Gerry
They are already feeling the pinch. I read before that once a Saudi Arabian had a degree they were certain for a government job if they wanted it. I think its about 80% civil servants there. Now however this generation does not have the same protection and have to fend for themselves.
Civil unrest could come sooner rather than later (hopefully)
“Speaking after the meeting at the Royal Palace, Mr Kenny said he congratulated the prince of Saudi, the deputy prime minister, on the Kingdom’s recent election to the United Nations’ human rights council.”
“I congratulated Saudi on their leadership in terms of moderation here in the Gulf region and their desire for a peaceful situation on a lot of very complex and technical issues.”
Let’s not forget the leader of our country praising this murderous regime.
What the Saudis are doing in Yemen currently with UK and British support is beyond grotesque.
Someone said below that terrorism wouldn’t disappear if the Saudi regime collapsed. Undoubtedly true, some of the damage Saudi have done in spreading their vicious ideology is irreparable, but that doesn’t mean the damage they do can’t be mitigated. If there’s any interest in confronting terrorism Western governments will exert pressure on the Gulf countries to stop promoting and funding sectarian forms of Islam. Unfortunately the amount of profit arms contractors make from the Saudis makes such a possibility remote.
Another Syria multiplied by 10 then – great!
Jane, You can’t watch it from ITV website – I just tried – it’s uk only. But its on PBS on the 29th ofmarch so could probably watch it then.
Declan, America, have you seen the comments on this forum. This shower would take the House of Saud any day over a socialist of any type.
Thanks bingo
It’s an incredibly damning documentary, but I think entirely accurate.
The Saudi regime is despotic, and at the tender mercy of whatever degree of birth or nuture induced psychopathy the billionaire monarchy succession produces.
Which has clearly been ‘lots’, and probably in the recent handover of power has just gone to ‘super size’.
Couple of things grabbed me in this must watch expose…
The extent to which the extremes of law are brutally enforced by a totally unaccountable ‘religious’ police that make East Germany’s STASI look like boy scouts. They were shown whipping people public where they stood, particularly women, fully covered to my eyes, but apparently breaking some law of ‘public virtue’.
The other was the astonishing inequalty in a country sitting on $7trillion of oil (at today’s low prices). Saudi born citizens (as opposed to it’s vast horribly exploited immigrant labour) living in conditions not far above Asian slums. Notably in the Eastern Shia concentrated areas now also the brunt of brutal suppression of a few brave dissidents marching and chanting in protest.
The peace blogger Raif Badawi still in a 19th century era prison serving 10 yrs for something he wrote online.
But worst of all….. the fact that probably ALL of the west’s, US, Europe’s leaders have long known the both the nature of the brutal Saudi regime AND that they were spreading hatred and intolerance thru’ the religious and educational materials, mosques etc. financed and built all over the world.
US and European governments have known the Truth about Saudi for a long time, but colluded with their censorship. Why?
That was not that great to be honest! Most of the material/stories have been online for a a good while now so it was more of a collection of known incidents than a revelation. It doesn’t actually look like they got much of the material from their own secret filming and they seemed to edit at odd places. The bit about al-qaeda, Bosnia and the Saudis was interesting though!! It’s hard to believe they have any position on the UN council for human rights…
Meanwhile Kenny exchanges shallow human rights plaudits for the sale of Irish beef. http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/enda-courts-controversy-by-lauding-human-rights-approach-29893669.html
Not only has it been removed from the ITV website but it seems that none of the UK papers today mention any thing about the program; almost as if it did not exist.
Could it be the Government has issued a “D Notice”, effectively silencing the media?
Interesting Richard… it wouldn’t surprise me.
I understand that with their bombing of Yemen, sales to Saudi Arabia of UK bombs and other munitions has jumped by 11,000 per cent… doubtless profits as well.
@Rashers. I quite agree.
She’s a wagon. period.
David McWilliams in today’s Indo lays the blame for Isis and fundamental Islamic expansion squarely at the door of Saudi Arabia and it’s Wahabi brand of intolerant Islam.
Of course the Saudis are largely responsible, and by extension the Brits and Yanks, who are their very close allies. Yet Europeans still think America are our friends, when it is their supposed enemies Iran and Russia who are at the frontline fighting the Saudi backed rodents!
They build mosques that are hotbeds of extremism throughout Europe and what are Europe doing about this problem, selling them weapons and trying get some of their oil dollars through enhanced trade. European leaders are idiots who are intent on destroying this continent.
Jihad predates Wahhabism and is not limited to Wahhabism.
“The first known jihad in West Africa was in Mauritania during the 17th century”
“The first major Fulani jihad occurred in Bondu, close to the Islamicized Senegal, where in the second half of the 17th century Fulani clerics succeeded in taking over political power from local Mande rulers…By about 1750 a Muslim theocracy had been erected”.
The founder of Wahhabism was born in 1703.
http://spice.fsi.stanford.edu/…/the_spread_of_islam_in_west…
https://books.google.ie/books…
It was the Sufi who pioneered suicide missions. The El Hashashen engaged in them to assassinate military leaders and government officials in the Middle East in the 11th and 12th century.
The Hashashin were Shia not Sufi but the often dressed as Sufi on their missions as a disguise.
Yes, but who is bankrolling it and exporting it today? That’s what matters now.
The danger with focusing on Saudi is that it can become a convenient way of keeping it as a ‘foreign policy’ problem. That allows people to avoid dealing with the result of the problem as it actually exists right now here in Europe. If Saudi disappeared off the map in the morning the problems would remain.
The spread happened a long time ago, the money has been dispersed, the imams trained, the mosques built., the networks and front groups are formed. We can’t turn back time. And Europeans have next to no influence over where the oil they buy comes from or how their states, never mind the US, interact with Saudi. It’s always a mistake to focus one’s attention too much beyond our sphere of influence.
Thanks for the correction pat.
The word Assassin comes from Hashashen..etymology ehh
Please. Iran and Russia both have their own entirely unaltruistic reasons for wanting ISIS out of the picture. Don’t try claiming moral superiority on their behalf.
Niall….thats been known for years…mr Mcwilliams has just discovered it or got permission to run the story…a lot of orgs cover for saudi…
Google mosques in holland…breathtaking largesse!!!
The British governments response sickened me. Great work by ITV and PBS the Saudis needed to be exposed. The only difference between Saudi Arabia and ISIS is that Saudi Arabia have diplomats in every country.
They have invested very heavily in America. Own alot of property and bonds. America is their hired muscle doing their dirty work in the middle east.
And sell oil to every country
Well that and they’re great at bribing entire governments. Honestly I think a lot of the worlds problems could be sorted by giving everyone 72 hours to vacate Mecca and sending in 2 or 3 nuclear armed B2′s to vaporise the entire site a few times over. One immense and targeted show of force to put an end to the lunacy that is Islam.
The Saudis are doing a lot of dirty work themselves now, with American made weapons of course. Yemen has been destroyed by Saudi jets. Hopefully their bought politician $hillary Clinton doesn’t become president.
The US imports over 1.1 million barrels of Saudi oil and petroleum every day. Without it the US economy would not function, it is the life blood of US industry. Saudi Arabia is second only to Canada when it comes to US oil donors. The US has very good reason to keep the Saudis sweet and it couldn’t give a fiddlers about human rights breaches, capital punishment etc as long as it doesn’t interrupt oil production.
Trying to use as little oil as possible in our personal lives would be an excellent contribution to starving people who’d like to kill us of their funds. It’s difficult but every less euro we pay for oil is one less in the Saudi royalty’s pocket.
@Sean
While that’s true it doesn’t tell the whole story. Saudi Arabia accounts for 16% of US oil imports Mexico and Venezuela aren’t that far behind around 12 and 14 I think. And then take into account that america only imports 40% of its oil consumption then then US aren’t as reliant on Arabia as you make it out to be.
Far more reliant on the fact that they buy billions worth of arms or even, what I believe, Saudi Arabia give them a very real presence in the middle east which can be used to control global issues like oil production or Iran.
And what about the lunacy and superstition that poses as Christianity? Will no-one rid us of these accursed priests?
Almost all the 911 hijackers were Saudi. We definitely need to vet migrants coming into the West from that country. The education system there has given many people a warped moral compass that glorifies terrorism.
$300 million of Saudi money is being used to build new Mosques in Europe but they haven’t taken a single refugee. Foreign funding for mosques should be banned and existing Salafist and Wahhabi mosques replaced with Sufi ones.
Islams expansion in the west and destruction of the liberal, democratic way of life, is only made possible by the complicity of the Jewish elite.
Ironic, but true.
Heard it all now…
The Saudis are the ones to worry about. These are the dangerous feckers.
Why has it been taken down. I watched it it was really awful and I must admit very brave of itv to do it. Reckon they put themselves at great risk showing it. The people undercover exceptionally brave but some had to stop because it was too dangerous. Truly shocking
I doubt that the worst could be filmed. I had to deal with a senior Saudi who was based in Ireland. His primitive and barbaric outlook chilled me. Human life meant nothing to him.
He could be in cabinet here yet. Human life means little to our own government, people are becoming homeless more and more often so that the already rich can become richer.
Shame on anybody who is surprised to hear that Saudi Arabia is evil incarnate. All the information about Islam and their authoritarian States are widely available online. People need to stop burying their heads and sympathizing with them
And yet the stunning wives and girlfriends of the Saudi Royal family can dress and wear their hair like a top class hooker in Paris, and the sons of the Saudi Royal Family can drive around in Ferrari’s, not quite getting this?
Roman Catholic priests on holidays can behave in a disinhibited way.
WHATABOUTERY Jesus Fiona you really can’t go a day without mentioning The Catholic Church on an article where it doesn’t belong.
Funny most of time I find myself agreeing with Fiona De Burka on most other subjects but when it comes to Islam Fiona is an insufferable apologist so bad of an apologist I want to pull my own teeth out with a string tied to a kitchen door!.
MM – you say-
“.. information about Islam and their authoritarian States are widely available online… ”
This is where you go totally wrong.
This documentary was about Saudi Arabia, ruled by a Wahabi Sunni monarchy (absolute despot).
It is not remotely correct to generalise ‘Islam’ and say that other muslim countries are like Saudi Arabia, or with similar geopolitical goals. They aren’t at all.
There is no doubt whatever that ISIL traces its ideological roots directly to Saudi Arabia, if not actual private or public bankrolling from Saudi citizens and royals. Likewise Al Qaeda. (Bin Laden was Saudi royal.)
And its most important to note that the vast majority of (supposed) muslim terrorists committing acts in Europe have been European born citizens… and crucially, significantly, mostly educated with books and materials from *Saudi* sources. (This has been known over decades.)
What we’re really dealing with is the deranged power politics of an immensely (oil) rich despotic dynasty in Saudi Arabia.
A small country in the ME which in 2014 was the world’s biggest arms buyer, by value.
They’ve used religion as a tool and spawned terrorism. Which has suited a shared policy agenda, with the US, Israel and allies, in the ME.
Which now also seems to be pushing Europe to suspend and diminish civil rights. France, 4 months on from the Paris attacks is still under the legal status, and executive branch powers, of their ‘state of emergency’ legislation.
Saudi Arabia is as much a creation of the US and Europe, as it is of its own (Royal) making. Their respective elites would appear to have long co-operated and protected each other. Maybe that co-operation still continues, despite a current mainstream ‘narrative’ of controversy?
Maybe the whole purpose of creating ‘religious’ conflict is just another ‘divide and rule’ distraction story to suppress the masses and get the propaganda susceptible ones to fight and die in wars for nothing more than elites’ profit…. as history shows us?
As they have done in the past in Ireland and elsewhere. Hypocrites!
Francois Holland just awarded one Saoudi prince with the legion of honour… Speaks volumes
France has promoted and practised terrorism in the recent past.
“Schools indoctrinating young students with Islamic views”, this is what Europe is up against!
Very well said Travis!
If you want to learn more about the truth of Islam, here is a very good starting point if you haven’t heard of Bill Warner, PhD in Islamic studies, he speaks on the conquest of political Islam, I urge anyone who wants to know more to spend some time watching his videos, some amazing insight from a calm, collected voice.
” teach young boys and grown men alike to rape women” Travis if you have any proof of that you should contact your local police force.
http://nyheder.tv2.dk/samfund/2016-03-08-imam-paa-skjult-kamera-muslimer-er-ved-at-erobre-europa
It’s in Danish but whenever undercover cameras are brought into mosques the discover really disgusting things for example one Imam said women can’t say no to sex from their husband or the Imam who said Muslims are conquering europe.
Of course I have proof, it’s called the Quran, Surahs and Hadith you idiot!
Not to mention the destruction they bring to every country as evident in the rape, murder and robbery figures, they enter under the guise of “terrified refugees” and destroy whole cities by ghettoization, keep incompatible Islamic barbarians out of Europe.
Okay got you there was no rape, murder or robbery until these guys appeared in Europe. And BTW I asked for proof not a couple of names. So again I ask any proof or are you just a racist?
Islam is a religion not a race
Be careful there.
Islam doesn’t show much respect for women and it does seem that there is an issue when it comes to some Muslims living in Western countries.
It’s not wrong to speak about it. It is wrong to label someone racist for speaking about it though
Pt Pat. The same was true here until relatively recently.
Britain: Could you stop murdering and torturing your own citizens whilst turning the survivors them against western culture?
Saudi Arabia: No.
Britain: Well, we raised the issue. Next item: can we sell you some weapons?
Why was it taken down.. For showing the truth about about that Saudi Wahhabi regime.
Where can I watch this programme?
eh you could try what’s commonly known as a search on that fancy internet thing :)
BTW…..watch it quick or download it now for later…..with all the attention it may get pulled.
That was eye opening. So now north korea and saudi arabia can act the same..one is chastised and one is supported by UK or others? We are goinv to ruin ourselves at this rate..give the world back to the monkeys..at least they dont have atomic weapons
Jesus fèck living there. Remember when I was young always wanted to live there because of Aladdin. Still love Aladdin … just not the middle east.
Enda Kenny was over there a while back high fiving them and telling them how great they were, totally sickening how he allows himself to be bought for a few euros. https://www.google.ie/search?site=&source=hp&ei=IPzyVtLiI8W8OvvYhpAE&q=enda+kenny+saudi+arabia&oq=&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.0.35i39l3.0.0.0.1995.2.1.1.0.0.0.0.0..0.0….0…1c..64.mobile-gws-hp..1.1.20.3.E9Gu4KnvKhk
Is it still possible to view this documentary anywhere?
I think it’s wrong for Cameron to agree with the criticisms but say they help with terrorism, it’s just collateral damage. You have to stick by your principles. If that means they won’t help us with terrorism then that says more about them than it does anyone else.
That’s a ridiculous thing to say cathal.if hanging and getting your head chopped off is such a deterrent why is there still new people being sentenced to death then.clearly it doesn’t work.
It’s important to note that Saudi Arabia has the 3rd highest military expenditure in the world, they spent $81 Billion on their military last year alone. They know western Governments will eventually turn on them and they want to be so strong that when they do they won’t be able to do anything about it.
They might be third but where did you get 81 billion from?
I think Channel 4 or BBC2 did some form of undercover doc about Saudi and the Mosque in London,Think it was finesbury park. The hatred these buckos have for us kafur non believers is unreal,I have travelled all over the world and would always go by the law of that particular country. But it seems these people want to go to Western countries and impose their religion and views,On countries that are totally the opposite to their beliefs.
British Government comment translated: these guys buy BILLIONS of pounds worth of arms and aircraft from us every year ; they give us loans, they supply our oil, they own half of London amongst other things – in short they could spit roast babies on the lawns of Westminster and there won’t be a peep out of us. We know they are savages, but we don’t care.
Saudi is the root of global Islamist extremism. Saudi spent billions building mosques under “THEIR” control worldwide and continue to do so.
From 1983 to 2003, the Saudi Wahhabis spent just under 90 Billion Dollars on promoting religious ‘projects’ across the globe, 85% of Medinas Islamic university places are reserved for foreign nationals. The proposed Clongriffin Mosque in Dublin is said to cost 40m Euro, all paid for by an anonymous UAE backer…Jihad money. http://www.theworldweekly.com/reader/view/magazine/2015-01-22/the-battle-for-islam/3090
Sounds like the Roman Catholic ‘cell system’ where they have a church and an agent in every townland.
This is what the left buries their head in the sand over. Filthy Arabian sand.
Well, not just the let but almost all governments.
Critical thinker?!? What a laugh
Is something funny?
It sounds like Britain are afraid of Saudi Arabia the way they are sticking up for them, almost like the disillusioned mother of a bully
When it comes to money …. The US and Britain don’t want that relationship de-railed with an oil slick
Bad spot alright but got the right idea on what to do with thieves. Bet 80 year old farmers are not bet with iron bars and robbed over there
All those involved in 9/11 New York attacks were Saudi, yet Bush and Blair invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
That’s it I’m never buying diesel again…
I heard ali selim of the muslim wahabbi brotherhood in clonskeagh go to bat for saudi today on joe duffy….he says they are a spiffing bunch of chums…
Joe Duffy? The man responsible for encouraging the spread of ignorance and stupidity through the airwaves, Gay Byrne’s last laugh at the people of Ireland’s expense.
I remember one of our feminist female presidents visiting wahabbi central some years ago and being content,nay made excuses for!..being sent to sit with the other sisters while the men did the real work!!! I never took the female presidents seriously after that….
It’s still available on the ITV player
Any where to watch it?
Travis…the scale of mosque building in europe is awe inspiring…and frightening..a fait accompli.
Saudi Arabia uses it’s vast wealth to export a medieval and brutal form of Islam to the Muslim world. Even though the US and UK elites make loads of money from their dealings with SA, the overall product of SA is toxic.
The uk has sold millons of euro wort of arms to the saudies this year
As the man said what the hell is going on
Stop buying oil = No Money = No Power
Let’s all get dunkeys and carts. At least we won’t have to drive around with that terrible sense of responsibility for causing all the strife in the Middle East over blood oil.
Rowe…ali selim said thats not true…joe duffy was in awe of him as a real live muslim so didnt pursue it.
Moderate..very good..people have no excuse for not knowing..
Pt pat…and saudi hatred for shiasm..10 per cent of muslims..is breathtaking..
Oil
Why is everyone fascinated with beheadings?
They’ve been a staple of punishment by various countries for millenia.
Iran waits in the wings….mecca and medina WILL be shia…..
Kevin wahab was his name….
…and beheading was his game. Baby you’ve got it!
Travis…explain that and rescue your credibility…jewish elite?
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