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>https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1410494150126997504
Mohammed bin Nayef, 61, was Saudi Arabia’s crown prince until he was removed to be replaced with Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) four years ago, after which he was also relieved of all positions by royal decree.
He was arrested and charged with treason along with his half-brother Nawwaf bin Nayef and his uncle Ahmed bin Abdulaziz on March 6, 2020, as MBS, the de facto Saudi leader, moved to consolidate power and get rid of rivals.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/saudi-intel-chief-who-saved-u-s-lives-was-detained-n1272548
Saudi intel chief who saved U.S. lives was detained, allegedly mistreated by Saudi government
"The Trump White House did nothing — absolutely nothing — to help him," said Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer.
>Bruce Riedel, a former CIA officer
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/royal-pains-two-princes-vie-power-saudi-arabia-make-mess-n502271
"To understand the Saudi royal family, you don't go to the Kennedy School of Government," says Bruce Riedel, the CIA's former national intelligence officer for the Middle East. "You read Shakespeare!"
“MBN,” as Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef is known, is 55 and a trusted U.S. ally. The interior minister and crown prince rose to power on his slow, steady success as head of the Saudi counterterrorism program, where he became a favorite of the CIA. He was sometimes also known as the Prince of Darkness because of his rank, his job in intelligence, and his night-owl habits.
>"To understand the Saudi royal family, you don't go to the Kennedy School of Government," says Bruce Riedel, the CIA's former national intelligence officer for the Middle East. "You read Shakespeare!"
>“MBN,” as Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef is known, is 55 and a trusted U.S. ally. The interior minister and crown prince rose to power on his slow, steady success as head of the Saudi counterterrorism program, where he became a favorite of the CIA. He was sometimes also known as the Prince of Darkness because of his rank, his job in intelligence, and his night-owl habits.
“MBS,” Mohammad bin Salman, is King Salman’s son. Just 29, he’s the defense minister and a savvy publicity hound who shot to prominence in 2015 as the architect of Saudi Arabia’s war against Yemen’s Houthi rebels .
"Bin Salman is a pop idol," notes Riedel, who is now at the Brookings Institution. "His picture is all over Saudi social media, on television, on billboards. There are pop music songs about him!"
Bin Salman’s trips to Russia, France and the U.S. were heavily covered in Saudi papers and burnished his image with the huge chunk of the kingdom’s population that is under 30. "They can see themselves in him,” said Riedel. “The system didn’t normally operate that way."
Bruce Riedel details the origins and history of ISIS (Islamic State), and how Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi came to power.
Has Hillary Clinton presided over a withdrawal of American power from the world?Bruce Riedel, former CIA strategist and presidential advisor, joins Baroness Pauline Neveille Jones, former British diplomat, in the studio to discuss her legacy.
>Baroness Pauline Neveille Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Neville-Jones%2C_Baroness_Neville-Jones
Lilian Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones DCMG PC (born 2 November 1939) is a British politician and former civil servant who served as Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) from 1993 to 1994. A member of the Conservative Party, she served on the National Security Council and was Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office from 2010 to 2011.
Before her elevation to the peerage she was styled Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, DCMG and, on 12 May 2010, Prime Minister David Cameron appointed Lady Neville-Jones his Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism in the Home Office with a permanent position on the newly created National Security Council.
On 9 May 2011, the BBC reported that Neville-Jones had left her role as Security Minister at "her own request"; her security brief was taken over by James Brokenshire. She was then immediately appointed as "Special Representative to Business on Cyber Security".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/indigenous-children-schools-canada-trudeau-pope-should-apologize/
Justin Trudeau says Pope Francis should apologize on Canadian soil for church's role in residential schools
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Pope Francis should come to Canada and apologize on behalf of the Catholic Church for its role in running residential schools for Indigenous children, after hundreds of bodies were located in two unmarked graves.
Trudeau said Friday in Ottawa that he spoke with the pope one day after Cowessess First Nation announced that some 751 unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Residential School in Saskatchewan, the Canadian province that borders Montana and North Dakota.
"I have spoken personally directly with His Holiness Pope Francis to press upon him how important it is not just that he makes an apology but that he makes an apology to Indigenous Canadians on Canadian soil," Trudeau told reporters.
"I know that the Catholic Church leadership is looking and very actively engaged in what next steps can be taken," he added.
Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme said in a news conference last Thursday that the Catholic Church operated the school and its graveyard from 1886 to 1970 and removed headstones at the graves in the 1960s. He said a search of the grounds resulted in 751 "hits" but that the radar used has a 10% to 15% error rate.
"We cannot affirm that they are all children," he said. "This is not a mass gravesite. These are unmarked graves."
Weeks earlier, 215 unmarked graves were found at the site of the now-shuttered Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. Trudeau apologized to Indigenous Canadians after the remains were found.
The residential school system, which operated between 1831 and 1996, removed about 150,000 Indigenous children from their families and brought them to Christian residential schools, mostly Catholic, run on behalf of the federal government, Reuters reported.
The Vatican has yet to address the latest findings. While he stopped short of an apology, Pope Francis called for reconciliation after the discovery of the 215 graves earlier this month.
"The sad discovery further raises awareness of the pains and sufferings of the past," he said.
"These difficult moments represent a strong appeal for all of us, to move away from the colonizing model and also from the ideological colonization of today," he added.
Larry Craig on Hardball
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
1917
His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
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>Oh there are some very very dirty boys in Washington who like to have their little backsides paddled by trained professionals.
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