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Saudi Arabia, UAE announce successful mediation efforts in US-Russia prisoner swap
alarabiya.net ^ | 12/8/22 | Joseph Haboush

Posted on 12/08/2022 7:53:08 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Saudi Arabia, UAE announce successful mediation efforts in US-Russia prisoner swap

According to a joint statement, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed led the efforts.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE said their joint mediation efforts helped lead to a successful prisoner exchange between the US and Russia on Thursday.

“The [two countries] said the success of the mediation efforts was a reflection of the mutual and solid friendship between their two countries and the United States of America and the Russian Federation,” a joint Saudi-UAE statement read. “They also highlighted the important role played by the leaderships of the two brotherly countries in promoting dialogue between all parties.”

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According to the statement, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed led the mediation efforts.

The US and Russia finalized a prisoner swap on Thursday, according to officials, in a deal that freed American basketball star Brittney Griner for notorious Russian arms dealer Victor Bout.

The exchange occurred in Abu Dhabi in the presence of “specialists” from the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

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1 posted on 12/08/2022 7:53:08 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

This is interesting. I just saw Occupier Biden giving a press conference giving himself all the credit for getting the criminal pot smoking lesbian freed from the Russian work camp instead of US Marine Paul Whelan, but here I am reading the Saudis were behind it with this one complaining about Biden never thanking them.

https://twitter.com/asiry_khaled/status/1600873806951653376


2 posted on 12/08/2022 7:53:14 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

So. “our friends, the Saudis” brokered that lame deal? Thanks a bunch.


3 posted on 12/08/2022 7:56:39 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

What else did we give Russia in this deal?


4 posted on 12/08/2022 7:59:31 AM PST by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Advice for Viktor Bout:

No matter how much you want to show appreciation to MbS, do not go to the Saudi embassy in Turkey.


5 posted on 12/08/2022 8:00:29 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Machine-gun jumblies. How'd I miss that? - Austin Powers 2)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
So the US Gov does negotiate thru and with terrorists and criminals. There is always a new low that our "leaders" seek out and eventually reach.

6 posted on 12/08/2022 8:07:18 AM PST by The Louiswu (- .-. ..- -- .--. / ..--- ----- ..--- ....-)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Exactly how many friendship dollars were handed over to the filthy rich filth to make the swap happen?


7 posted on 12/08/2022 8:08:02 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: gundog

Victor Bout was at one time one of the half-dozen most important illegal arms merchants active in the world. He operated from the UAEmirates part of the time, and as he paid off officials wherever he went it is not surprising that the UAE was behind this swap. As the Saudi and UAE participation in a swap involving a lesbian kaffir seems incredible, the US State Department, headed by a faggot, must have promised a great deal for the Muslim leaders to go along.


8 posted on 12/08/2022 8:08:57 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

from WIKI:

In 2020, Griner, along with teammate Brianna Turner, called for the WNBA to stop playing the United States national anthem before the games. She made her remarks after Mercury players refused to take the floor during a pre-season game in Bradenton, Florida. Griner said she was protesting the killing of Breonna Taylor as part of the wider George Floyd protests.[88] She said later during a media teleconference, “I honestly feel we should not play the national anthem during our season. I think we should take that much of a stand.”[89] She said she does not believe that the national anthem should be played at sporting events.[90]


9 posted on 12/08/2022 8:11:42 AM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

LOL, so we got played. Any chance they did this to embarrass us and SnifferOTUS’s admin too dumb to catch on?


10 posted on 12/08/2022 8:15:02 AM PST by mykroar (what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how. - J0eStalin)
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To: Bookshelf

I don’t know thatt Blinken’s s fag, but he did say that he mentions LGBT+ issues every time he talks to the Saudis. They rolled him good on this one. I hope that’s all they got. .


11 posted on 12/08/2022 8:40:40 AM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

There goes Brittany’s sobriety. She’ll most likely spark up a blunt at JFK when she lands.


12 posted on 12/08/2022 8:53:35 AM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Some conservatives are complaining that Biden’s prisoner swap is the worst trade in history, but it’s not even close.

Obama’s trade of Bowe Bergdahl, who was subsequently convicted of desertion and dishonorably discharged from the Army, for five terrorist detainees at Gitmo still holds that record.


13 posted on 12/08/2022 9:42:42 AM PST by Skepolitic ( )
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To: Skepolitic

Yep. It just proves that the DemoMarxists will always side with the enemy


14 posted on 12/08/2022 10:08:00 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

FREE Paul Whelan too!!!!

This message is for my friends in the UAE, as well as for the not so friendly bidenites!!!!


15 posted on 12/08/2022 10:44:08 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: The Louiswu
So the US Gov does negotiate thru and with terrorists and criminals. There is always a new low that our "leaders" seek out and eventually reach.

"new"? LOL. Look up Iran-Contra and the Lebanon Hostage Crisis.
16 posted on 12/08/2022 1:14:15 PM PST by Izzatso
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