>>20618995.PBvideo of Old Guard is dead
Absolute Power
March 3, 2022 (“The Atlantic”, long biased article, but good info)
Mohammed bin Salman, complained that he had endured injustice, and he evinced a level of victimhood and grandiosity unusual even by the standards of Middle Eastern rulers.
When we asked if he had ordered the killing of Khashoggi, he said it was “obvious” that he had not. “It hurt me a lot,” he said. “It hurt me and it hurt Saudi Arabia, from a feelings perspective.”
“From a feelings perspective?”
“I understand the anger, especially among journalists. I respect their feelings. But we also have feelings here, pain here.”
The crown prince has told two people close to him that “the Khashoggi incident was the worst thing ever to happen to me,because it could have ruined all of my plans” to reform the country.
In our Riyadh interview, the crown prince said that his own rights had been violated in the Khashoggi affair. “I feel that human-rights law wasn’t applied to me,” he said. “Article XI of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that any person is innocent until proven guilty.”Saudi Arabia had punished those responsible for the murder, he said—yet comparable atrocities, such as bombings of wedding parties in Afghanistan and the torture of prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, have gone unpunished.
The crown prince defended himself in part by asserting thatKhashoggi was not important enough to kill. “I never read a Khashoggi article in my life,” he said.
To our astonishment, he added thatif he were to send a kill squad, he’d choose a more valuable target, and more competent assassins. (Kek)
“If that’s the way we did things”—murdering authors of critical op-eds—“Khashoggi would not even be among the top 1,000 people on the list. If you’re going to go for another operation like that, for another person, it’s got to be professional and it’s got to be one of the top 1,000.” Apparently, he had a hypothetical hit list, ready to go. Nevertheless, he maintained that the Khashoggi killing was a “huge mistake.”
“Hopefully,” he said, no more hit squads would be found. “I’m trying to do my best.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/04/mohammed-bin-salman-saudi-arabia-palace-interview/622822/
(Did Erdogan have him killed in Turkey? Is there is fight between their two Muslim faiths?)
Does any anon know the meaning of the gold chain and object of honor is, that the King gave and put on Trump?