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2020-01-27 Home Front: WoT

The FBI reportedly stopped a Saudi plot to kidnap a YouTuber on US soil after he criticized Mohammed bin Salman for Jamal Khashoggi's killing

[Yahoo News- ht to Wretchard] Saudi agents tried to kidnap a social-media star and regime critic on US soil, The Daily Beast reported. The plot was only foiled when the FBI caught them just as their plane arrived into LAX, the Beast said.

* The critic, 27-year-old Abdulrahman Almutairi, used social media to criticize Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal murder of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

* Almutairi joins a growing list of Saudi dissidents targeted by the regime. Carrying out such a mission on US soil would mark a new level of Saudi brazenness.

* Agents of the Saudi government tried to kidnap a young social-media influencer and regime critic on US soil, The Daily Beast reported, cited multiple sources familiar with the episode.

The critic, 27-year-old Abdulrahman Almutairi, lives in California and used social media to criticize the Saudi government and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist assassinated by the Saudi government.

The Daily Beast reported said that after Almutairi voiced his criticism of the crown prince on social media for Khashoggi's death, an "unidentified Saudi man accompanied Almutairi's father on a flight to collect Almutairi against his will and bring him back to Saudi Arabia."

Almutairi told the outlet that if he had been taken back to Saudi Arabia he would likely have been killed.

Posted by Frank G 2020-01-27 11:01|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia

#1 Agents of the Saudi government

Just caught my eye.

Posted by Woodrow 2020-01-27 20:08|| 2020-01-27 20:08|| Front Page Top

#2 Is it okay to criticize Saudis for 9/11 now or is it still too soon?

Posted by jpal 2020-01-27 21:01|| 2020-01-27 21:01|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ but is it too late?

Posted by Lex 2020-01-27 22:05|| 2020-01-27 22:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Why do we give a flying fook about people who do not love us, do not share our values or appreciate our art and ideas and achievements as a civilization?

Why do we care about them?

Why can't we be content to raise our children, nurture our families, build our communities, transmit our culture and create and recreate our civilization and worship our god without worrying about the fate of these savages who neither respect nor care for us in the slightest?

WHY?

Posted by Lex 2020-01-27 22:08|| 2020-01-27 22:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Quis hic locus, quae regio, quae mundi plaga?

What seas what shores what grey rocks and what islands
What water lapping the bow
And scent of pine and the woodthrush singing through the fog
What images return
O my daughter.

Posted by Lex 2020-01-27 22:11|| 2020-01-27 22:11|| Front Page Top

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