Miteb bin Abdullah
Posted on 11/29/2017 7:40:27 PM PST by markomalley
Saudi Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, son of the late King Abdullah and the highest-ranking royal to be imprisoned during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s corruption crackdown, was released on Tuesday after three weeks of detention.
Prince Miteb paid a huge financial settlement, reportedly in excess of one billion dollars, to resolve the corruption charges against him. The charges are said to have included “embezzlement, hiring ghost employees and awarding contracts to his own firms, including a deal for walkie talkies and bulletproof military gear.”
CNN notes that Miteb was “seen as a hurdle in the meteoric rise of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who led the arrest sweep.” Until he was removed from his position by royal decree in early November, he was the commander of the Saudi National Guard, a powerful military force with strong tribal ties kept separate from the ministries of interior and defense. The National Guard was, in other words, the most powerful element of the Saudi security apparatus that was not under Crown Prince Mohammed’s control.
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At first glance, I thought his name was “Mitch.”
Too bad they couldn’t ALL be “unfortunate helicopter tragedies”....
Miteb bin Abdullah
Interesting things are stirring here, and all we've got is shadows of shadows to try to read. What did Trump actually say to the Saudis and the Israelis on that little trip nobody in the media wants to talk about? I'm actually quite a bit less interested in John Conyers' underwear than I am in the seismic shifts going on in the most violent region in the world. But it's probably just me...
I wouldn’t let that dude out. Not even for a billion. You know he’s gonna start trouble sooner or later. It’s a pride thing.
I can say this from first hand observation -—— He looks like his Dad.
I want the franchise to sell sunglasses there.
I would be wealthy
Our dear friends the Saudis are gangsters who happen to be very rich and also peddle a very dangerous ideology throughout the world.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is draining the swamp. It's really the most important news story that Americans aren't paying attention to.
For some reason this just brought back an old memory. I went to boarding school, and there were a lot of kids there who were American but whose parents lived and worked in Saudi Arabia for Aramco, etc. The Saudis have, or had, a law that no foreign kids (at least American) could live there and go to school once they were over a certain age (14 or so I think). They were allowed to go back to see their parents during school breaks. One kid told me he was grabbed and restrained in a town square there and forced to watch a public stoning to death, so he could learn by example not to do whatever it was that person had done.
A billion dollars!!
Almost what Hillary “spent” on her “campaign’!
Wow!!
He shoulda purchase a Monopoly set so he coulda taken the Get of Out of Jail Free Card which he woulda then used to save almost $1 billion.
He’ll quietly walk out...fly to Lebanon probably, and sit down with ISIS to discuss revenge...bringing the ISIS thugs into Saudi Arabia.
I do agree, the King had to lay down some authority on the money-laundering and corruption...but this is simply going to stir the pot and start up some civil war in Saudi Arabia (maybe twelve months....maybe up to two years away).
And the CIA and JOhn McCain will be in the room as well. Mohammed bin Salaman knows this, President Trump knows this as well. I guess they feel they are strong enough now to be able to win.
Ask yourself this though. If you went and started up some minor ISIS civil war in Saudi Arabia...who would they eventually have to turn to for troop support? The US? Trump would say a billion dollars a week just to make them sweat. If ISIS knocked out the production capability? You’d be looking at the economic collapse of Saudi Arabia (maybe for several years).
You might be right about McCain and his lobby-controllers wanting to ensure the ‘right’ outcome for their pockets, and getting Saudi Arabia to dissolve in terms of oil production might be one of their goals.
Big mistake. Machievelli would know what to do.
Saudi Arabia can see the end of rich, fat, and happy coming up behind them in the rear view mirror. That’s why the squeeze is on.
My guess is this set of arrests to wring out cash and assets is just the first in what will be a continuous lather, rinse, repeat cycle. It will continue until they end up at the level of economic development that their “advanced” culture can support. i.e. something on the level of Yemen. Probably take about 2 decades.
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