[AnotherUnixGeek]

Saudi princes and billionaire businessmen arrested in a power grab earlier this month are being strung up by their feet and beaten by American private security contractors

It's illegal for Americans to participate in torture abroad. I don't believe that any American company would try providing "security contractors" for this purpose - every executive in the company could look forward to a lengthy prison sentence.

And as for Muhammad bin Salman, these fellow princes are his cousins - he will need them and their sons on his side or at least on the sidelines to rule in the decades to come. There's only so far he can go to diminish their power - that's why he's got them detained at the Ritz-Carlton instead of a real prison.

Sounds like fake news to me.

[EliRoom8]

MbS — 32 yrs old — wishes to reform Islam and befriend Israel.

[familyop]

"It's illegal for Americans to participate in torture abroad. I don't believe that any American company would try providing "security contractors" for this purpose - every executive in the company could look forward to a lengthy prison sentence...Sounds like fake news to me."

Agreed.

[familyop]

Notice where it also said, “a source in the country tells DailyMail.com.” Not a good chain of sources at all. When it comes to foreign relations in the Middle East, the U.K. is sometimes not a good ally.

[GoldenPup]

he will need them and their sons on his side or at least on the sidelines to rule in the decades to come.

No problem. They will all be “someplace else”very soon.