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Obama hosts powerful Saudi prince
Digital Journal ^ | 16 June 2016 | Andrew Beatty

Posted on 06/18/2016 2:32:07 PM PDT by Lorianne

US President Barack Obama hosts youthful Saudi Arabian Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House on Friday, underscoring his guest's meteoric rise and increasingly pivotal role in strained US-Saudi ties.

White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Obama would meet the 30-year-old deputy crown prince, who has become the driving force behind economic reform and a more activist Saudi foreign policy.

King Salman's son, who is his country's defense minister, has met the very biggest of Washington's big hitters during a week-long visit.

He held talks with the CIA director, the secretaries of state, defense and treasury, as well as leading members of Congress.

The White House said Prince Mohammed's meeting with Obama will take place in the Oval Office -- a rare honor for a non-head of state, one not afforded to the Dalai Lama earlier in the week.

Little is certain about the inner workings of the House of Saud, but the prince's high public profile has led many to speculate that he could be the next on the throne, rather than designated Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef.

He is notionally number three in the hierarchy, but effectively he's number one," said Simon Henderson of the Washington Institute, a think tank focused on the Middle East.

"The King prefers his son and wants his son to be king," said Henderson.

For the White House, Mohammed bin Salman is a relative unknown, while Mohammed bin Nayef -- as interior minister -- has been the go-to royal on counterterrorism for years.

Prince Mohammed "wants to be known on the US side," said Gregory Gause, head of the international affairs department at Texas A&M University's Bush School of Government and Public Service. "It's an effort by him to be recognized."

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1 posted on 06/18/2016 2:32:07 PM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; stephenjohnbanker; ...

Does this prince support free abortions, gay marriage, and trans-gender optional public restrooms?


2 posted on 06/18/2016 2:34:10 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Lorianne

This is my, "I love America" face.

No, really, guys, it is.

It, uh....totally is, and stuff.

3 posted on 06/18/2016 2:34:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Lorianne

“a more activist Saudi foreign policy. “ - More than 9/11/01?


4 posted on 06/18/2016 2:35:01 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Lorianne

Any relation to Noor Salman (Mateen)?


5 posted on 06/18/2016 2:37:11 PM PDT by maggief
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To: Lorianne

What’s the prince’s take on the Twin Falls rape of a little girl?


6 posted on 06/18/2016 2:37:43 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Lorianne

Is Obunghole assuming the proper subserviant stance before his Muslim superior?


7 posted on 06/18/2016 2:38:33 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Islam is a cancer on civilization.)
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To: Lorianne

He “is the deputy crown prince of Saudi Arabia, second deputy prime minister and the youngest minister of defense in the world.[1] Mohammad is also chief of the House of Saud royal court, and chairman of the Council for Economic and Development Affairs. He has been described as the power behind the throne of his father, King Salman.” (Wiki)


8 posted on 06/18/2016 2:38:48 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: nuconvert

From the article :

...Obama’s administration has been repeatedly embarrassed by the killing of civilians and worried that while the war has dragged on, Al-Qaeda has been allowed to grow.

More than 6,400 Yemenis have been killed since the intervention started 15 months ago, the majority of them civilians.

The Huthis remain in control of most of the central and northern highlands as well as the Red Sea coast.

The United Nations had blacklisted the Saudi-led coalition after concluding in a report that it was responsible for 60 percent of the 785 deaths of children in Yemen last year.

But the world body later reversed its stance, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon citing “undue pressure” from Saudi Arabia and its allies who had threatened to cut off funding to UN aid programs over the blacklisting.

There are signs that the war may be winding down and Saudi Arabia and its allies may be shifting focus to tackling Al-Qaeda.

The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday announced its “war is over” in Yemen, although left open the prospect of a continued counterterrorism role.


9 posted on 06/18/2016 2:44:47 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Lorianne

Just another Arab thug.

Without oil money from us, a camel jockey with sand in his teeth.


10 posted on 06/18/2016 2:48:13 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: heterosupremacist

First thing I thought of:
Dancing with the Devil

Tupac ~ Dance with the Devil

(Immortal Technique)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV79eXMUCiQ 3:31


11 posted on 06/18/2016 2:53:28 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: gaijin

He looks like a first class a-hole to me.


12 posted on 06/18/2016 3:03:28 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Lorianne

Are they going to use the back door of the White House to greet him like they did Netanyahu?


13 posted on 06/18/2016 3:15:08 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: beethovenfan

Who will procure for this prince during his visit? He’s only 30.


14 posted on 06/18/2016 3:15:27 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: gaijin

That’s a phoney baloney “trust me” used-car-salesman’s face.


15 posted on 06/18/2016 3:18:36 PM PDT by fivecatsandadog ( Human error: allowing Muslims to be pilots, engineers, chefs, mechanics, and presidents.)
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To: Lorianne

I bow down to thee o king homo slayer


16 posted on 06/18/2016 3:21:04 PM PDT by BRL
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To: Lorianne

During Ramadama Ding Dong!


17 posted on 06/18/2016 3:53:27 PM PDT by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Lorianne

Pig


18 posted on 06/18/2016 4:05:21 PM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: Lorianne

How much can he bench?


19 posted on 06/18/2016 4:26:26 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Probably not. But I doubt he gives a damn about those issues, what’s important to him is that his boots are licked.


20 posted on 06/18/2016 5:12:11 PM PDT by Impy (Never Shillery)
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