Tweet ‘You have to kiss a lot of frogs until you find your handsome prince,’ the saying goes, but in the case of Saudi Arabia, it is the reverse. We have been kissing lots of Saudi princes for more than 70 years and what we ended up with is an ugly toad, the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The promising reformer, known to the world as MBS, the rising star, the darling of the west, the one who was going to modernize Saudi Arabia and Islam, the cute young prince who let Saudi women drive and brought Mickey Mouse movies to a Saudi theater near you; is now accused of…
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WHY THE SON OF ARAB LEADERS MAKE LOUSY DICTATORS
Tweet Why Arab leaders’ Sons make lousy dictators!! One of the most astonished supporters of Mohamed Bin Salman, known by MBS. As the Guardian reported, is Ali Shihabi, the head of the Arabia Foundation , a thinktank lobby group that basically a Saudi Royal family operative its main job is to wash off Saudi dirts in the US, Mr. Shihabi an ex banker once said “MBS has “balls”, but still young” , incidentally Thomas Friedman in his latest love letter to the crown prince, tells us that MBS the reformer now has the “ball” in his hands, I hope it is not one of the “Balls” that Ali Shihabi was…
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When Head of States, Act like Thugs…, the killing of Jamal Khashoggi!
Tweet Everyone knows by now, unless you live in Saudi Arabia, that Washington Post writer and Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi was kidnapped, interrogated, and tortured, dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Turkey in the presence of the Saudi consulate himself. The horrible fate of Mr. Khashoggi was undertaken ‘mafia style’, taken directly from the Corleone family’s bloody playbook. The killing of Mr. Khashoggi, reported was on the order of the highest level of the Saudi family. Which probably means MBS himself who, after taking power from his ailing father, is running the Royal Saudi family as the hard-headed Sonny of the Corleone family,