Biden has vowed to make Saudi Arabia and its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman a “pariah” on the international stage for the murder of dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for the British newspaper. Washington Post.
And he went and bowed before him with a fist of a smiling hand. It was a hand kiss. Worse than shaking hands with the murderous tyrant Khashoggi, which Biden wanted to avoid. for manager Washington PostFred Ryan, “Produced a sense of intimacy and comfort that gives Mohammed bin Salman the unconditional rehabilitation he so desperately craved.”
Biden trip will come to nothingExcept for photo opportunities. In Saudi Arabia, like other US allies in the Middle East, violations of human rights and international law are widespread.
Al-Jabri case, Canada involved
Saad Al-Jabri, a former senior Saudi counter-terrorism official, has taken refuge in Canada. The Saudis are suing him in the US for stealing $3.47 billion from one of their front companies, SKAB Saudi Holdings. Al-Jabri says he could not defend himself without revealing the secret activities the company was funding with the CIA.
US intelligence chief Avril Haines has invoked “state secrecy” to prevent any disclosure of the case, which she said would cause “exceptionally serious” harm to the United States.
A judge ruled that al-Jabri was unable to defend himself without the prohibited information, a decision appealed by the Saudis.
In a parallel lawsuit in Canada, Ottawa requested a court injunction to prevent Al-Jabri here, too, from revealing US state secrets in her own defence.
Senior CIA officials praised al-Jabri’s work on counterterrorism when he was a senior advisor to former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was ousted by Mohammed bin Salman in 2017.
Two children in their twenties from Al-Jabri and his son-in-law are being held hostage by Mohammed bin Salman. No, of course Biden did not ask him to release Al-Jabri family members and other unjustly detained Saudi dissidents.
world compass
The short time he spent in Jeddah with the Saudi “royal family” was enough to permanently damage the image he wanted to project of himself and his country.
Speaking of the United States, Biden, this man of hesitant and fluid rhetoric, launched on the campaign trail in 2021: “We lead by example, not by showing our strength. We are part of something bigger than ourselves. We are a compass for the world.” Fabulous! He was almost delirious as Trump!
Whether it is Russia, China or the United States, the mind of the state always takes precedence over law and justice. Nietzsche said that the state is a cold beast. There is no decent way to drive it, Jung added. Machiavelli, here we come!
