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Saudi Arabian Mining Co. declines as net profit dips quarter-on-quarter
The Tadawul market closed 0.3% lower at 6,118.62 points. Shares of Saudi Arabian Mining Co., also known as Ma'aden, fell 1.80% to SR24.55. Earlier in the day, Ma'aden reported net income attributable to the shareholders of the parent company, for the third quarter ended 30 September 2011 amounted to SR27.4m compared to the actual net loss for the same quarter of 2010 amounted to SR0.2m, and compared to the actual net income for the second quarter 2011 of SR62.5m representing a decrease of 56%. " Source: Ame Info
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Saudi to launch e-system to monitor infection diseases
The Saudi health ministry is set to launch an integrated electronic system to monitor infectious diseases and control epidemics in the kingdom, Saudi Gazette has reported. The programme, part of a national plan to promote the preventive health medicine, is also to cover immunisation of citizens and residents as well as the storage of vaccines and registering the follow-up date, according to ministry spokesman, Dr Khalid Al-Marghalani. Source: Saudi Gazette
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Saudi King to undergo surgery in coming days
Saudi King Abdullah, who underwent surgery last year for back-related problems, will undergo an operation in the coming days, Saudi Arabia's state news agency reported on Tuesday. The health of the ruler of the world's leading oil exporter is of keen interest, given his age - thought to be 88 - and uncertainty over how power would be transferred within Saudi Arabia's ruling royal family. "In continuation of the scheduled medical follow up of King Abdullah, the king will undergo an operation in the coming days in Riyadh," news agency SPA reported, citing a statement from the royal court. Details of the planned operation were not disclosed. King Abdullah was absent for three months late in 2010 while he underwent treatment for a herniated disc that caused blood to accumulate around his spine. He underwent surgery in New York and convalesced in Morocco, leaving his brother Crown Prince Sultan in charge. Sultan, who is slightly younger than Abdullah, has also been treated for health issues in the past few years and was in the United States in the summer for medical tests. Interior Minister Prince Nayef is poised to step in if anything happens to indispose both Abdullah and Sultan. The king appointed Nayef second deputy prime minister in 2009 - a move that puts him in a strong position to one day take over. So far only sons of the kingdom's founder, Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, have ascended to the throne, and eventually it will have to pass to a new generation. An "allegiance council" of sons and grandsons of the kingdom's founder was established to guide succession, but how it will work has not been made clear. Nayef, who is in his late 70s, is considered to be a conservative who might put the brakes on some reforms introduced by Abdullah. Last month, the king unveiled greater representation for women in Saudi Arabia, granting them the right to vote and stand in local elections. Women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive and require a male relative's permission to work or leave the country. Religious instruction is an integral part of education in the Sunni monarchy, but with a growing population, the kingdom is trying to create jobs for its 19 million people, of whom 70 percent are under the age of 30. After returning to the kingdom in February, King Abdullah unveiled $130bn worth of job-creating projects for infrastructure, housing, security and other areas. Despite the upheaval seen across the Arab world, and the toppling of autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya, Saudi Arabia saw only small protests flare up in the oil-rich Eastern Province, where there is a higher concentration of Muslim Shi'ites. After relative quiet since March, protests erupted again last week but were quickly stamped out. Source: Arabian Business
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US says Iran backed plot to murder Saudi envoy
The United States on Tuesday accused Iran of sponsoring a plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the US in a conspiracy involving a secret Iranian military unit and a citizen of the Islamic Republic with a US passport. Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri were charged with conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, in this case plastic explosives, to murder Ambassador Adel Al-Jubeir and attack Saudi installations in the US in a plan hatched this year. Targets included “foreign government facilities associated with Saudi Arabia and with another country,” the US said in a complaint filed in Manhattan federal court. The plotters also targeted Israel’s embassy in Washington, as well as the Argentina embassies of Israel and Saudi Arabia, according to a federal law enforcement official familiar with the matter. US Attorney General Eric Holder said today that the US will hold Iran responsible for any terrorist actions tied to the plot, which he said was sponsored by the Iranian government. He called the conspiracy a “flagrant” violation of international law. The US said Arbabsiar, who has dual US and Iranian citizenship, conspired with Shakuri, a member of Iran’s “Qods Force,” which is described as “the most secret of the Iranian regime’s numerous military organizations” by the Iran Terror Database. Prosecutors called it “a special operations unit of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps that is said to sponsor and promote terrorist activities abroad.” “This was directed by senior members of the Qods Force,” Holder said. While Shakuri remains at large, Arbabsiar was arrested Sept 29 at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. He appeared today in federal court in New York, where he was ordered held without bail. His lawyer, Sabrina Shroff, said he would plead not guilty and consented to detention. US President Barack Obama was briefed on the alleged plot in June, said Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the National Security Council. “The disruption of this plot is a significant achievement by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies,” Vietor said in a statement. Arbabsiar met on several occasions in Mexico with a confidential informant of the US Drug Enforcement Administration posing as an associate of the Zetas, a violent Mexican drug cartel, according to the federal law enforcement official, who declined to be identified because they aren’t authorized to publicly comment. The informant had been charged by state authorities in connection with a narcotics offense, prosecutors said in the criminal complaint unsealed today. In exchange for his cooperation, the state charges were dismissed and he began to assist the US in narcotics seizures, according to the office of Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara. The cartel the informant pretended to represent had access to military-grade weaponry, the US said, as well as explosives. Arbabsiar arranged with the informant and others posing as his criminal associates to murder the Saudi ambassador, according to the government. Arbabsiar wired them $100,000 as a down-payment, to be followed by installments of $10,000, prosecutors said. The DEA informant said it would cost $1.5 million to carry out the attack. At a May 24 meeting, Arbabsiar asked about the informant’s knowledge of explosives and said he was “interested in attacking an embassy of Saudi Arabia.” The informant mentioned he was familiar with C-4 plastic explosives. That month, the informant told agents in the DEA Houston field division about requests being made by Arbabsiar to assist in terrorist attacks in the US and other countries, according to the law enforcement official. During a July 14 meeting, Arbabsiar told the informant that his cousin in Iran had asked him to “find someone to carry out the ambassador’s assassination,” according to the complaint. He also indicated his cousin was a “big general” in the Iranian military who focuses on matters “outside Iran.” The two men met repeatedly in June and July, according to the government. The informant said he would need four men to carry out the murder, prosecutors said. Arbabsiar had become friends with the informant’s aunt while living in the Corpus Christi, Texas, area where Arbabsiar worked as a used car salesman, the federal law enforcement official said. Arbabsiar later told the informant that the primary target for the attack was the Saudi ambassador and that targets for subsequent attacks were the Israeli embassy in Washington and the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Argentina, according to the federal law enforcement official. Arbabsiar also told the informant that the same Iranian sponsors behind the terror plot also controlled drug smuggling and could provide multi-ton amounts of opium, the federal law enforcement official said. Federal agents became aware on Sept. 28 that Arbabsiar had left Iran and had already departed on a commercial flight from Frankfurt to Mexico. The DEA and FBI worked with Mexican government officials to deny Arbabsiar entry to Mexico, and he was placed on a commercial flight routed back to his country of origin by way of New York and was arrested upon arriving at JFK. “Though it reads like the pages of a Hollywood script, the impact would have been very real and many lives would have been lost,” Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert Mueller Said of the alleged plot at a Justice Department press conference. The US State Department said the Qods force conducted attacks against coalition forces in Iraq. In October 2007, the US Treasury Department designated it as “having provided material support to the Taliban and other terrorist organizations.” Today, the Treasury Department sanctioned Arbabsiar and four Qods force officials allegedly tied to the plot. After he was arrested and advised of his rights, Arbabsiar confessed to his participation in the murder-for-hire plot, prosecutors said. He told authorities that his cousin approached him “in the early spring of 2011” while Arbabsiar was in Iran, and asked him to work with him on the plot. He used code words during the plan, and called the plot “Chevrolet,” according to prosecutors. Arbabsiar and Shakuri are charged with five counts including conspiracy to murder a foreign official and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction. They may face as much as life in prison if convicted. “This is dangerous new territory for Iran,” said Representative Mike Rogers, a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “It is the latest in a series of aggressive actions -- from their nuclear program to state sponsorship of terrorism, from complicity in killing our soldiers in Iraq to now plotting hostile acts on US soil. This episode underscores the need for concerted international unity to confront Iran.” Mahdi Nourian, spokesman for the Iranian mission at the United Nations, didn’t immediately respond to phone messages or e-mail seeking comment. Nail al-Jubeir, director of the information office at the Saudi embassy in Washington, wasn’t immediately available for comment. Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency referred to the criminal charges as a “propaganda campaign” by the US government in a report on its website. The alleged plot illustrates a trend since 2009 of “a more aggressive, more anti-American, more risk-tolerant Iranian government,” said Ken Pollack, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution in Washington. Pollack said the crushing of Iran’s pro-reform Green Movement protests in 2009 brought with it the purge by the hardliners of moderates in the Iranian government. At the press conference today, Holder said there is no “basis to believe” any other co-conspirators are still present in the US The charges were brought in New York because the wiring of the $100,000 payment was made through a bank in New York, Bharara’s office said. In a statement, US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat from New York, said of the alleged plot that “Iran has shown the world once again it poses an existential threat to the world community.” Source: Bloomberg
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Saudi's Dar Al Arkan says to diversify portfolio
Dar Al Arkan , Saudi Arabia's biggest property developer, will diversify its sources of income over the next three years and will not need to issue more debt, its chairman told Reuters in an interview. Dar Al Arkan chairman Yousef al-Shalash said the developer is expected to post better results toward the end of 2011 and during 2012 as sales and rents improve, both of which were negatively affected over the past three years. "We hope to diversify our sources of income in order to have some stability in our revenue sources as we expand our rent portfolio to 40 percent from 10 percent of the firm's revenue," Shalash said. DarAl Arkan also plans expand its housing unit sales to 20 percent of the portfolio from the current 10 percent, while halving its dependence on land sales to 40 percent from the current 80 percent. "We hope to reach these levels within three years... We had already started working on that two years ago," Shalash said. Some 80 percent of its assets of about SR23bn ($6.13bn) are land plots in the kingdom, where analysts say properties are hard to value. Dar Al Arkan also has SR6bn ($1.6bn) in debt. "We are fully able to repay our coming obligations from the company's income, without resorting to debt... The debts do not exceed six billion riyals and it does not cause any concern for us as it only represents 35 percent of our total assets," he said. The firm has a $1bn Islamic bond maturing in 2012 and last year it raised $450m from a sukuk issue that had a five-year maturity and was priced at 10.75 percent just in time to refinance a $600m sukuk maturing in March 2010. Bankers said Dar Al Arkan raised less than it had targeted after a lengthy road-show. On Saturday, Dar Al Arkan said the Public Investment Fund (PIF) approved a SR4bn facility to finance one of its biggest projects in Jeddah, the Qasr Khozam development which spans an area of 4m sq m. The total cost of the project is estimated at SR12bn, Shalash said, declining to give details on when construction will start. "There are difficulties (in financing) for development companies in the Saudi market, especially after the financial crisis... This affected the growth in projects and implementation plans," Shalash said. The firm also plans to start building this month 500 new housing units in the capital Riyadh as the country faces a large housing shortage due to rapid population growth which reached 27 million people. A report from Banque Saudi Fransi in March said Saudi Arabia needs 1.65 million new homes by 2015 but Shalash believes the shortage exceeds that amount. "The Saudi housing market is the best... There is real demand for housing units, around 4.5-5 million houses in the next ten years," Shalash said. Source: Reuters
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Telco Zain Saudi's chief executive resigns
Saad al-Barrak has resigned as telecoms operator Zain Saudi's chief executive, the company said on Tuesday, two weeks after a consortium withdrew plans to buy a 25-percent stake. Khalid Al-Omar will take over as acting chief executive, pending the appointment of Badr bin Nasser al-Kharafi as permanent CEO if shareholders approve, the company said in a statement to the Saudi bourse. Bahrain Telecommunications Co and Kingdom Holding withdrew a joint $950 million bid for a 25 percent stake owned by Kuwait's Zain last month, while al-Barrak also tried to put together his own consortium to buy out Zain and allow him to remain in charge. Barrak was also the former chief executive of Zain and was the architect of Zain's rapid expansion in the previous decade, when Zain claimed to be the fourth largest telecoms carrier globally, with operations in 23 countries. Zain has since retrenched to become a seven-licence carrier, selling its African operations to India's Bharti Airtel for $9 billion in 2010, with indebted shareholder the Kharafi Group seen as the main driver for this change in strategy. Kharafi also failed in two attempts to sell controlling stakes in Zain, first to an Indian-led consortium and then to UAE's Etisalat. A condition of the proposed deal with Etisalat was for Zain to first sell its stake in Zain Saudi since Etisalat is already active in Saudi Arabia through its affiliate Mobily . Zain Saudi shares closed 1.7 percent lower on the Saudi bourse on Tuesday. Source: Reuters
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Saudi cabinet OKs $10bn coast-to-coast railway
Saudi Arabia approved plans to build a freight and passenger railway connecting its western port of Jeddah with the eastern ports of Dammam and Jubail, president of the Saudi Railway Organisation said in a statement on Tuesday. The 950km railway project, which is estimated to cost $10bn and will pass through Riyadh, was shelved after the financial crisis. "This project will transport containers to the local and neighbouring gulf markets as a main activity... which will lower the cost for transporting goods," Saudi Railway Organisation President Abdul Aziz Al Hokail said, adding that it will also transport passengers. The rail line will connect the Red Sea port city of Jeddah to the capital Riyadh, where it will connect to an existing network between Riyadh and Dammam. The Saudi cabinet approved the funding from the state-run Public Investment Fund and will solicit bids to build out infrastructure, according to a statement on the state news agency. The land-bridge project was originally offered as a Build Operate Transfer tender in 2007 but it was shelved for further study. Kuwaiti logistics firm Agility entered a consortium in 2007 with US firm KBR Inc and General Electric to bid for the project, which was then estimated to be cost around $6bn. Other firms that tendered bids in 2007 include Japan's Mitsui & Co and Germany's Siemens as well as Korea's Samsung Engineering and Construction. The rail project is one of three main projects Saudi Arabia is planning to upgrade its transportation infrastructure. A high-speed (Haramain) railway linking Islam's holiest cities in Mecca and Medina to Jeddah is currently under construction. Saudi Railway Organisation is studying bids for the second and final phase of the Haramain railway which includes construction of the railway tracks, installation of signal systems and telecommunications as well as procurement of rolling stock equipment. The third rail project is the 2,400km north-south railway, which would be the kingdom's longest railway project, also financed by PIF. Source: Reuters
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Unfortunately the gold price came up
per gram is SR 177.38 October 15, 2011 8 AM
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Votes for women is big 'small step' in Saudi
The right to vote in elections in a country that remains an absolute monarchy, where they still may not work nor travel without assent from a male relative nor drive a car, may seem a small step for the women of Saudi Arabia. Yet King Abdullah's unexpected move was a momentous turn in the culture wars that have marked his reign. It may presage more change, not only for women but in the relationship between royal house and clergy upon which the state was founded, and among rivals within a ruling family that faces mounting demands from subjects who see other Arabs pushing closer to democracy. The king's announcement on Sunday in the Shura Council that women would be allowed to join the hitherto all-male - and legally toothless - advisory chamber, and to vote in municipal elections, was welcomed as significant by women, who under Saudi law occupy an explicitly subordinate role to men in society. "These are chances for women, who think they can help in pushing the wheel of development," said Lama al-Sulaiman, who as vice president of the Jeddah chamber of commerce is among the few Saudi women to hold such a prominent office. Unique in the world, Saudi women may not drive. Concealing attire is obligatory in public. In court, their testimony counts for less than that of a man. And they must have a male ‘guardian’ to endorse major life decisions, from choosing to marry to taking a job or travelling abroad. Though Abdullah, who casts himself as a reformer, appointed a woman as a deputy minister in 2009 - for women's education - no woman has full cabinet rank nor serves as an ambassador. But Hamida Alireza, a resident of the prosperous commercial hub of Jeddah, spoke for many Saudi women in saying that the rate of change had been satisfactory over the decade or so in which Abdullah has steered policy through an opaque political process in which other princes and clerics also have a big say. "I think the pace, as long as we stay at this pace, is very good," she said. "Three years ago none of this was on the table." The warm applause which greeted his five-minute speech in the Shura Council, and the silence from senior clerics who have voiced doubts in the past about women's rights, suggest that the king had paved the way for this latest reform. "Any opposition on a religious basis does not have any legs to stand on because it was done according to Islamic teachings," said Hossein Shobokshi, a liberal Saudi newspaper columnist. So far, the only opposition to the move has been in comments posted on social networking sites by individual conservatives convinced that Abdullah is corrupting their Islamic society. "To Allah, to history and to our nation, King Abdullah's reign has seen the most corruption in the history of al-Saud with regard to women," Abdulrahman al-Luwaiheq posted on Twitter a few hours after the announcement. It is unclear how far such sentiments are shared by more powerful clerics from the austere Wahhabi tradition, whose collaboration with the ruling al-Saud family lies at the heart of the Saudi kingdom, founded in its present form in the 1930s. Previously stated positions among senior government-funded sheikhs, reveal profound misgivings about women's rights. The most senior, the Grand Mufti, in an undated web posting, has warned that involving women in politics could mean "opening the door to evil". Such conservatism is widespread in Saudi society, though state-sponsored restrictions on women have at times provoked broad disapproval - witness the popular outrage in 2002 when religious police blocked schoolgirls fleeing a fire because they were not fully dressed in the presence of men. Fifteen died. Change - and reaction - are not new in Saudi Arabia, where clerics have conferred an aura of piety upon a dynasty that was quick to embrace the modern technologies its oil wealth bought, while accepting a religious model of society more in keeping with its tribal heritage than the gridlocked cities of 2011. When King Faisal introduced education for girls in the 1960s, he suffered a conservative backlash. And when militants seized the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979 over perceived moral decline, some clerics were sympathetic to them. T has been much resistance to giving women greater freedom. Women's rights activists faced criticism for campaigning for the right to vote in this week's municipal elections - the king's announcement will give them that right only at the next opportunity. And when women campaigned for the right to drive this summer - some of them taking to wheel in defiance of the law - some conservatives set up a social media group encouraging physical attacks on any woman who dared to follow suit. King Abdullah has countered resistance in various ways, employing both carrot and stick. Last year he decreed that only members of the country's top religious council had the power to issue fatwas, or religious edicts, a move that tried to sideline his most vocal critics. And in 2009 he fired a senior scholar from an important post after he criticised the first mixed-sex Saudi university and spoke out against the teaching of evolution as an alien idea. This year, the king has also encouraged clerical favour by big spending on building mosques and on the morality police, as well as by banning media criticism of senior clerics. In a year when Arab Spring revolts have unseated secular autocrats, the clergy remain a powerful support to the Saudi monarchy, even as it seeks popular favour, too. Votes for women are a significant development for Saudi society, but will not rapidly diminish clerical influence over its politics. Source: Reuters
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Zain court ruling 'will not deriail $ 950 million stake deal'
A court ruling against Kuwait's Zain will not derail a $950m deal to sell its quarter-stake in affiliate Zain Saudi, the chief executive of joint bidder Bahrain Telecommunications (Batelco) said on Monday. Peter Kaliaropoulos said he was awaiting clarification from Zain on any implications from Sunday's court ruling. The court ruled that Zain's April annual shareholders meeting was invalid, upholding a case brought by a former board member who opposed the election process. "The court case was in Kuwait, not Saudi Arabia," said Kaliaropoulos. "If it was detrimental, we would have heard straight away. I can only judge that because we haven't heard at this point in time, it's not a material impact." In March, Batelco and joint bidder Kingdom Holding agreed to buy the stake in indebted telecoms operator Zain Saudi, with the bidders poised to get management control. Kaliaropoulos reiterated that he expected due diligence on the deal to be completed by the end of September. Source: Reuters
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