Trump Tells Saudi King That He Supports Modernization Drive
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“The king and crown prince’s recent public statements regarding the need to build a moderate, peaceful and tolerant region are essential to ensuring a hopeful future for the Saudi people, to curtailing terrorist funding, and to defeating radical ideology — once and for all — so the world can be safe from its evil,” the White House said in the statement.
The White House statement made no mention of the scores of arrests, including that of Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a billionaire investor who has held stakes in an array of Western companies, including the News Corporation, Citigroup and Twitter. Prince Mohammed, who has already sidelined rivals to the throne, is viewed as the mastermind behind the crackdown.
Prince Alwaleed sparred with Mr. Trump on Twitter during the presidential election, referring to him as a “disgrace not only to the GOP but to all America.” Mr. Trump fired back, also on Twitter, that he was a “dopey prince” trying to “control our U.S. politicians with daddy’s money.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-arrests.html
As you indicateFred,looks like the House of Saud is now willing to bring Islam into the modern era. The most recent shot heard round the world is when the Saudis used a US intercept system to take down that incoming Yemeni SCUD missile over the Riyadh Airport.
A new order is attempting to manifest, they “mustaffa” listened to President Trump when he spoke to that Assembly of Arab leaders recently.
Thanks for the briefing, it has a lot of us sitting up and taking notice.