Help wanted: Role models for Saudi princes behaving badly

Special to WorldTribune.com

Add two more to the long list of wealthy Saudi royals behaving badly when they step outside the kingdom.

Lebanese authorities on Oct. 26 seized two tons of Captagon pills, a popular amphetamine in the Middle East, before they were loaded onto the private plane of Prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz. The drug is said to be used by Islamists on all sides of the fighting in Syria.

Saudi Prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud has been charged with sexual assault in California.
Saudi Prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud has been charged with sexual assault in California.

The prince and four other Saudi men were detained by customs agents at Beirut International Airport. It was one of the largest drug smuggling operations ever attempted in Lebanon, officials said.

Sources say Captagon, which is banned in the Middle East as too addictive, is being used by fighters on both sides of Syria’s civil war.

Earlier this month in Los Angeles, Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud, the 29-year-old son of late King Abdullah, was arrested on suspicion of “forced oral copulation” of an adult and other charges.

Authorities said three female employees accused Al-Saud of going on a violent, drunken rampage in which he attacked both male and female aides and house workers at his Beverly Hills mansion and forced them to strip and perform sex acts against their will. Al-Saud is now free on $300,000 bond.

Another royal family member, 27-year-old Monsour Alshammari, was detained earlier this year at the U.S.-Mexico border while attempting to flee the country to escape prosecution on rape charges in Utah.

In 2013, a Saudi princess named Meshael Alayban was arrested in Irvine, California on charges that she imprisoned and abused a Kenyan house servant.

In 2010, a wealthy Saudi couple was accused of torturing a 49-year-old Sri Lankan maid by hammering 24 hot nails into her flesh when she complained about her workload.

Also in 2010, Saudi Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir Al-Saud was jailed for life after bludgeoning his manservant and partner Bandar Abdulaziz to death in London. According to the BBC, the 34-year-old prince spent more of his time in court arguing that he isn’t a homosexual than he did denying the murder.

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