Re,Wow. Saudi Arabia surely sounds like a modern and progressive...

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Wow. Saudi Arabia surely sounds like a modern and progressive society.


And this happened while Trump was President the 1st time...Donald John Trump ... A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 45th president from 2017 to 2021.

21 Mar 2018
It's a great honor to have the Crown Prince with us. Saudi Arabia's been a very great friend and a big purchaser of equipment and lots of other things.


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And let's NOT forget what happened here:

Jamal Khashoggi: What we know about the journalist's disappearance and death

On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a US-based journalist and critic of Saudi Arabia's government, walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where he was murdered.

In the months that followed, conflicting narratives emerged over how he died, what happened to his remains, and who was responsible.

Saudi officials said the journalist was killed in a "rogue operation" by a team of agents sent to persuade him to return to the kingdom, while Turkish officials said the agents acted on orders from the highest levels of the Saudi government.

Khashoggi was ambushed and strangled by a 15-member squad of Saudi operatives. His body was dismembered and disposed of in some way that was never publicly revealed.

Who was Jamal Khashoggi?

As a prominent Saudi journalist, he covered major stories, including the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of the late al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, for various Saudi news organisations.

For decades, the 59-year-old was close to the Saudi royal family and also served as an adviser to the government.

But he fell out of favour and went into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017. From there, he wrote a monthly column in the Washington Post in which he criticised the policies of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the son of King Salman and Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler.

In his first column for the Post in September 2017, Khashoggi said he had feared being arrested in an apparent crackdown on dissent overseen by the prince.

*** Yes, US intelligence agencies concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) approved the operation that led to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. A declassified CIA report stated that MBS approved the operation, which was intended to capture or kill Khashoggi. While Saudi Arabia initially denied any involvement, they later acknowledged that Khashoggi was killed in their consulate in Istanbul, but claimed it was a rogue operation gone wrong. However, the US, along with other countries and organizations, maintain that the operation was sanctioned by the Crown Prince.

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