US President Joe Biden visited Saudi Arabia not only to discuss oil but also to pressure Riyadh to cut ties with China and Russia. This comes after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) killed key CIA ally Jamal Khashoggi and purged rivals in the royal family who were most loyal to Washington.
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Below are links to all the sources cited in this report, in chronological order:
- “Joe Biden lands in Saudi Arabia seeking to halt shift towards Russia and China,” The Guardian
- “Joe Biden: Why I’m going to Saudi Arabia,” Washington Post
- “Watch Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s exuberant handshake at G-20,” CBNC
- “Saudis Sign Military Cooperation Agreement With Russia,” RFE/RL
- “Saudi Arabia’s ties to the U.S. and China are not mutually exclusive, minister says,” CNBC
- “Why did CIA turn against Saudi Crown Prince MBS? It’s more than Khashoggi,” The Real News
- “To the Saudi regime, Jamal Khashoggi’s real crime was to be an insider,” The Times
- “Jamal Khashoggi’s long road to the doors of the Saudi Consulate,” Washington Post
- Jamal Khashoggi: “It’s time to divide Syria,” Washington Post
- Jamal Khashoggi: “The U.S. is wrong about the Muslim Brotherhood — and the Arab world is suffering for it,” Washington Post
- “Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi arms merchant and friend of the CIA, dies at 81,” Australian Financial Review
The loyal "spooner" in the Saudi court is the perfect metaphor for Jamal Khashoggi.
He was not so much a "dissident" as he was a propagandist for another faction of the royal family — a faction that lost power with MBS' rise.https://t.co/j06L2ThBbs
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) October 24, 2018
Khashoggi joined the US/Saudi-backed Mujahideen fascists in Afghanistan, and published an article with a photo of him holding a rocket launcher with them.
Khashoggi was also a longtime close friend of Osama bin Laden.
The CIA loves reactionaries like himhttps://t.co/KShkmDqwCX pic.twitter.com/Bk0g6CQilC
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) October 24, 2018
While Saudi monarchy-supporting non-dissident Khashoggi—who barely spoke English—was publishing English-language columns in Bezos' Washington Post, the Qatar Foundation's director was overseeing his pieces
WashPost editors didn't know about this or his request for Saudi funding pic.twitter.com/AH0hcjuiyg
— Benjamin Norton (@BenjaminNorton) December 23, 2018
Interesting detail in this interview with Robert Fisk, who wrote the infamous 1993 whitewash of Osama bin Laden: Fisk was originally hooked up with OBL by none other than Jamal Khashoggi. https://t.co/fLnv8wGvI9 pic.twitter.com/5mQ4EMZAEB
— 𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙔 (@gumby4christ) October 1, 2020
In 1995, Jamal Khashoggi was tasked by Saudi prince Abdullah with a PR op: to whitewash the image of Khashoggi's friend Osama bin Laden and thereby secure safe harbor for OBL in Saudi Arabia. (Lawrence Wright, "The Looming Tower") pic.twitter.com/mTfh0gFeAn
— 𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙔 (@gumby4christ) October 19, 2018
Deryck
2022-07-18 at 20:54
Do you see any correlations with the Saudi faction actors that you mention in this story, and the information that has come into the public domain with regards to the 9/11 attack and Saudi participants?
(Part 2 story..?)
Deryck
2022-07-18 at 21:20
An FBI memo declassified in March, in response to an executive order by President Joe Biden, reported that Bayoumi was receiving a monthly stipend from Saudi intelligence. In other words, he was not a student but a spy. According to the FBI memo, dated June 14, 2017, Bayoumi was tasked with gathering information “on persons of interest in the Saudi community” and passing the intelligence to Prince Bandar bin Sultan al-Saud, the Saudi ambassador at the time.
https://vault.fbi.gov/9-11-attacks-investigation-and-related-materials/9-11-material-released-in-response-to-executive-order-14040/documents-responsive-to-executive-order-14040-2-c-part-4/view
Deryck
2022-07-18 at 21:27
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-government-911-new-documents-direct-connection-bayoumi-mihdhar-2022-5
Eric Arthur Blair
2022-07-23 at 15:55
Joe Biden’s pandering to MBS achieved nothing and was a humiliating triple failure:
JB: please increase your oil output
MBS: nope
JB: let’s talk about your murder of khashoggi
MBS: nope
JB: please restore the petrodollar, do not sell oil in Yuan.
MBS: nope
JB:oops, I just peed in my pants
MBS: yep
Eric Arthur Blair
2022-07-23 at 18:14
Correction: quadruple failure, including the peed pants.
Useful tip for Joe: use adult diapers.