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2021-02-27 Arabia
US president @JoeBiden stressed to @KingSalman ''rules are changing'' and that he's going to announce significant changes to bilateral relations
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And he (or the team, anyway) have begun by punishing certain parties for the murder of that paid Qatari agent, Jamal Khashoggi:
US slaps sanctions on elite Saudi unit over Khashoggi murder
[AlAhram] The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on an elite Saudi unit as well as a former intelligence official over their role in the killing of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

The Treasury Department said it would block assets and criminalize transactions with the Rapid Intervention Force, which a declassified intelligence report said was answerable to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, as well as former intelligence official Ahmad Hassan Mohammed al-Asiri.

Blinken: US to ban visas over dissident threats, bars 76 Saudis
[AlAhram] The United States will ban entry of foreigners who threaten dissidents and will immediately restrict 76 Saudis over Jamal Khashoggi's brutal murder, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday.

"We have made absolutely clear that extraterritorial threats and assaults by Saudi Arabia against activists, dissidents and journalists must end. They will not be tolerated by the United States," Blinken said in a statement.
Posted by Fred 2021-02-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Saudi Arabia 

#1 Regime change!

Because that always works out so well.
Posted by Elmung Hatrack5948 2021-02-27 07:47||   2021-02-27 07:47|| Front Page Top

#2 Can you just imagine what would leap into a US created vacuum in KSA? Not fuzzy bunnies, no sir Bob!
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-27 08:41||   2021-02-27 08:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Beginning in 1993 Khasshoggi served as an apologist for the Al Qaeda. His interview with Bin Laden left no question as to where his allegiance was when it came to Saudi Arabia. Many observers actually wondered why it took Riyadh so long to kill him.
Posted by b 2021-02-27 09:05||   2021-02-27 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Biden will tell KSA the new rules as soon as he is given them. If it wasn't my country that Xiden is president of I woud find this amusing.
Posted by irish rage boy  2021-02-27 09:38||   2021-02-27 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Expect the Saudis to push up oil prices in response and diversify arms supplies to Russia, China and Europe. Combined with the Biden admin ban on new fracking = $4/gal gas ($5 in Calif) and all the bad fallout from it.
Posted by Hupineck Joluger3758 2021-02-27 10:24||   2021-02-27 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 MBS to Plugs: "Sniff this, puppet-boy"
Posted by Gerthudion the Well-mannered3789 2021-02-27 10:42||   2021-02-27 10:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Are they trying to start yet another Mideast war?
Or is their goal to outdo Jimmy Carter for stupidity and incompetence?

These people are cretins. Even Carter recognized the importance of fracking (and deserves some credit for the shale revolution).

But Biden and his fellow sh!theads not only are going to invite Iran to dominate the entire Gulf, they're trying to end fracking too. Unbelievable stupidity. Borders on treason
Posted by Omearong Guelph6187 2021-02-27 10:47||   2021-02-27 10:47|| Front Page Top

#8 stealing an election is TREASON
Posted by 746 2021-02-27 11:04||   2021-02-27 11:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Not The President, and I don't mean just the election fraud, I mean he is not in charge of his own cognizant.

Suddenly the CIA discovers evidence of the connection?

Remember all those 'activists and journalists' who lost their crap when K got whacked. I think this may be bigger than simply Cancel Trump.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-27 13:50||   2021-02-27 13:50|| Front Page Top

#10 I think they are going to try and topple the Saudi government.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-27 14:46||   2021-02-27 14:46|| Front Page Top

#11 Rules usually change in a Regime change. And I don't think Biden is going to last much longer...
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-02-27 14:48||   2021-02-27 14:48|| Front Page Top

#12 "Regime change" my glutei maximi - Saudis been spending a lot of $$$ buying American politicians for the last 50 years
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-27 14:52||   2021-02-27 14:52|| Front Page Top

#13 It will be more fun and games like this until a couple of major cities in the Middle East are nuked, a large ship's wreckage blocks Hormuz and the Saudi oil fields become radioactive.
Posted by Thineger Sproing6704 2021-02-27 16:11||   2021-02-27 16:11|| Front Page Top

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