Trump Showers Praise On Saudi Prince As 9-11 Families Told To Swallow It Again

[rightwinger]

Hey, what's one human being's life compared to a new trump Hotel in Riyadh?

Everything with Trump is transactional
He puts a value on everything

What is a human life compared to billions in personal profits?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Other than instructing Americans on what kind of people we cozy up to in the ME, it certainly wasn't.

The lesson is, don't let them come here.

 

[rightwinger]

He was a Saudi journalist with the Saudi newspaper Al Watan. His weak tie to America was a column he wrote for the Washington Post once a month. He lived in Turkey and was going to marry a Turkish woman. So, he wasn't a resident.

So, none of our business.

Jamal Khashoggi lived in several places during his life, but in the years before his death he primarily lived in the United States.
His residence before his assassination (2017–2018)

• Khashoggi lived in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.
• He moved to the U.S. in 2017 after leaving Saudi Arabia due to increasing pressure and restrictions on his work.
• While in the U.S., he worked as a columnist for The Washington Post.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Jamal Khashoggi lived in several places during his life, but in the years before his death he primarily lived in the United States.
His residence before his assassination (2017–2018)

• Khashoggi lived in Northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C.
• He moved to the U.S. in 2017 after leaving Saudi Arabia due to increasing pressure and restrictions on his work.
• While in the U.S., he worked as a columnist for The Washington Post.

He wrote a monthly article for the Post. At the time of his death he was living in Turkey preparing to marry a Turkish woman. His relationship to the US is little more than a fly by while he was working for Saudi media. He was a Saudi national killed on Saudi ground.

 

[MisterBeale]

Other than instructing Americans on what kind of people we cozy up to in the ME, it certainly wasn't.

Interestingly enough, this spy was tangentially linked to Epstein.

From “Spook Air” to the “Lolita Express”: The Genesis and Evolution of the Jeffrey Epstein-Bill Clinton Relationship

Far from being the work of a single political party, intelligence agency or country, the power structure revealed by the network connected to Epstein is nothing less than a criminal enterprise that is willing to use and abuse children in the pursuit of ever more power, wealth and control.

unlimitedhangout.com

August 23, 2019

". . . .A redacted FBI report from 1998 describes Stephens as having “lengthy and continuing ties to the Clinton administration and associates” and also discusses allegations that Stephens has been involved in the “illegal handling of campaign contributions to the Democratic National Party.”

BCCI had originally been founded by a group of bankers from Pakistan, though Newsweek later reported that CIA officials appeared to have been involved in the bank’s founding and that BCCI founder Agha Hasan Abedi had been encouraged by the CIA to found the bank after “the agency realized that an international bank could provide valuable cover for intelligence operations.” CIA documents that later surfaced during congressional hearings on the bank’s activities and related scandals stated that BCCI was directly involved in “money laundering, narco-financing, gunrunning and holding large sums of money for terrorist groups.”

". . . Though BCCI was known for its CIA links, Catherine Austin Fitts — former Assistant Secretary for Housing–Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD during the George H. W. Bush administration, and investment banker with the firms Hamilton Securities Group and Dillon, Read & Co. — believes that those links went well beyond the CIA. Fitts — who was placed on the board of the BCCI subsidiary First American Bank following BCCI’s collapse — told MintPress that, after reading through troves of documents regarding the bank’s activities prior to its implosion, it was clear to her that there was “no way” its clandestine activities were carried on without the full knowledge of the Federal Reserve, specifically the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the White House.

BCCI also played a key role in the Iran-Contra affair and accounts of the bank were used to send payoffs to individuals linked to the scheme. Adnan Khashoggi, a key figure and intermediary in the scandal, used one BCCI account to move more than $20 million related to illegal arms sales and BCCI created fake documentation, including checks signed by Oliver North, allowing the sale to go forward. The bank later, when its activities subsequently came under congressional scrutiny, claimed it had no records of these transactions.

In addition, BCCI appears to have been involved in the sex trafficking of underage girls, including girls that had not yet reached puberty. According to the report entitled “The BCCI Affair,” by then-U.S. Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Hank Brown (R-CO), BCCI officials were alleged to have obtained leverage with powerful individuals, including prominent members of the ruling families of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), by providing them with young virgins.

The report (page 70) specifically states:

According to one U.S. investigator with substantial knowledge of BCCI’s activities, some BCCI officials have acknowledged that some of the females provided some members of the Al-Nahyan family [one of the ruling families in the UAE] were young girls who had not yet reached puberty, and in certain cases, were physically injured by the experience. The official said that former BCCI officials had told him that BCCI also provided males to homosexual VIPs.”

 

[Hafar1014]

Other than instructing Americans on what kind of people we cozy up to in the ME, it certainly wasn't.

Biden and Obama were cozy with Iran

 

[rightwinger]

He wrote a monthly article for the Post. At the time of his death he was living in Turkey preparing to marry a Turkish woman. His relationship to the US is little more than a fly by while he was working for Saudi media. He was a Saudi national killed on Saudi ground.

He was living mostly in the US

Regardless of his residence, the brutal slaughter of a journalist merely for criticizing the Royal family is barbaric and should not be tolerated by the US

Just like we are outraged by Putin’s murder of Navalny

Trump rolls out the red carpet for both

 

[blackhawk]

In the world of international diplomacy sometimes you have to deal with ugly less than upstanding people. It would be wonderful if every world leader we have to deal with was pure as the driven snow and an upstanding individual but it wouldn’t be reality.

 

[ColonelAngus]

As one 9/11 widow put it on X last night: “My husband burned to death because 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi and the Kingdom’s own officials helped them. And now we arm the man who chops up journalists and executes teenagers. God forgive America, because I’m not sure I can.”

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Nice to see OP is Islamophobic!

Heck yea!!

 

[Mr Natural]

We can be sure that Trump is getting a piece of the action.

 

[JWBooth]

Biden and Obama were cozy with Iran

Nonsense. They weren't hardcore brain dead stupid about Iran. Not the same thing as cozy.

 

[Zincwarrior]

In the world of international diplomacy sometimes you have to deal with ugly less than upstanding people. It would be wonderful if every world leader we have to deal with was pure as the driven snow and an upstanding individual but it wouldn’t be reality.

You don't have to defend murder though.

 

[rightwinger]

In the world of international diplomacy sometimes you have to deal with ugly less than upstanding people. It would be wonderful if every world leader we have to deal with was pure as the driven snow and an upstanding individual but it wouldn’t be reality.

Mostly true but where do you draw the line?

Why offer red carpet treatment to Putin and MBS?
Why excuse their evil deeds?

America used to be better than this

 

[martybegan]

Mostly true but where do you draw the line?

Why offer red carpet treatment to Putin and MSM?
Why excuse their evil deeds?

America used to be better than this

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/20/obama-havana-cuba-1224370

Welcome to Realpolitk.

 

[Doc7505]

As one 9/11 widow put it on X last night: “My husband burned to death because 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi and the Kingdom’s own officials helped them. And now we arm the man who chops up journalists and executes teenagers. God forgive America, because I’m not sure I can.”

Trump Showers Praise and F-35s on Butcher MBS While 9/11 Families Are Told to Swallow It – Again

The cringiest moment in the White House today wasn’t just the surreal sight of Donald Trump calling Mohammed bin Salman’s "human-rights" record “incredible.” It was watching the President of the United States hand the man accused of ordering Jamal...

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Meanwhile, Zorhan Mamdani spouts anti-American rhetoric and blames America for the 9-11 attack.

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[blackhawk]

Mostly true but where do you draw the line?

Why offer red carpet treatment to Putin and MBS?
Why excuse their evil deeds?

America used to be better than this

No it didn’t America has always had to deal with these type of people when necessary to get something good sometimes you have to work with someone bad that’s life.

 

[blackhawk]

You don't have to defend murder though.

If you want Saudi Arabia to be part of the Abraham Accords which would be an important thing in the Middle East to a degree you do. It’s not something anyone likes but in diplomacy it’s something that sometimes you have to do.

 

[Zincwarrior]

If you want Saudi Arabia to be part of the Abraham Accords which would be an important thing in the Middle East to a degree you do. It’s not something anyone likes but in diplomacy it’s something that sometimes you have to do.

NO. Literally don't defend it. Don't have reporters in there and defend it. Just have photos taken of them together.

 

[rightwinger]

No it didn’t America has always had to deal with these type of people when necessary to get something good sometimes you have to work with someone bad that’s life.

Work with?
May be necessary

Defend their evil actions?
Never

 

[EvilCat Breath]

He was living mostly in the US

Regardless of his residence, the brutal slaughter of a journalist merely for criticizing the Royal family is barbaric and should not be tolerated by the US

Just like we are outraged by Putin’s murder of Navalny

Trump rolls out the red carpet for both

Neither Navalny nor Kashoggi are worth our foreign policy.