...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
i security official and placed him in one of its notorious prisons in Riyadh.
Media sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday that the arrest came after the official was summoned by the head of the so-called Riyadh-formed Presidential Council, Rashad al-Alimi.
The sources reported the arrested Mufti Suhail Nahayan Samoudah, a security director of Mahrah province, which is under the control of the Saudi-led coalition, has been held since last January.
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...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...took Brigadier General Samoudah, who holds Saudi nationality, to one of its prisons, after he was summoned by al-Alimi, without mentioning the special reasons behind the arrest," the sources added.
The sources suggested that the arrest of Samoudah was related to the implementation of the US-Saudi interests in Mahrah province.
The Saudi ambassador, Mohammed Al Jaber, one of officials who supported a decision to appoint Mufti Suhail Nahayan Samouda as director of security for Mahrah, after the Saudi forces entered the port of Nishtun and took control of al-Ghaydah airport in mid-July 2018.