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The ODNI report concluding MBS ordered Khashoggi’s murder is up. It’s short. And damning.
This is what Trump dismissed so he and his son-in-law could keep cozying up to the Saudis. https://odni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/a ... 210226.pdf
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Breaking: US intel report on murder of Jamal Khashoggi says Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman was responsible: “We assess that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation..to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” it states.

More: The report says that bin Salman has “absolute control” of the Saudi intelligence and security operation, meaning such an operation to target Khashoggi would not have been carried out without his authorization.
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I've said it before. The Saudi's are NOT our friends.

They just don't openly call for the defeat/destruction of the US.

They are good customers for fighter jets and other expensive military hardware, so they try to keep on our good side, but they do not share our values or even our goals for the middle east.
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I'll echo that.

The Saudi's are not our friends. They are not anybody's friends.

They through crumbs at progressives the same way they throw crumbs at right-wing nut jobs.

But they are not our friends.

Partnering with them on anything other than movements for equality, civil rights, and LGBTQ rights and the like shames our country, IMO.
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noblepa wrote: Fri Feb 26, 2021 1:33 pm I've said it before. The Saudi's are NOT our friends.

They just don't openly call for the defeat/destruction of the US.

They are good customers for fighter jets and other expensive military hardware, so they try to keep on our good side, but they do not share our values or even our goals for the middle east.
Let us also not forget that they hate Iran, and Iran is a historical embarrassment and source of emotional baggage to certain parts of the US population.. so they love SA for that alone.
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Another great legacy from the British Empire, the Sauds.
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U.S. to impose sanctions, visa bans on Saudis for journalist Khashoggi's killing, officials say

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The Biden administration will announce sanctions and visa bans on Friday targeting Saudi Arabian citizens over the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but it will not impose sanctions on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, U.S. officials said.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s actions in the first weeks of his administration appear aimed at fulfilling campaign promises to realign Saudi ties after critics accused his predecessor, Donald Trump, of giving the Arab ally and major oil producer a pass on gross human rights violations.

A senior Biden administration official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the approach aims to create a new launching-off point for ties with the kingdom without breaking a core relationship in the Middle East. Relations have been severely strained for years by the war in Yemen and the killing inside a Saudi consulate of Khashoggi, a U.S. resident who wrote columns for the Washington Post.

Importantly, the decisions appear designed to preserve a working relationship with the crown prince, even though U.S. intelligence concluded that he approved the operation to capture or kill Khashoggi.
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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” —John Adams
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