photo of Prince bin Zayed courtesy mubadala.com<\/p>\n
Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud, and UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, are close friends and allies, who jointly lead the war against Houthi-led Yemen. On Sunday afternoon, November 18th, a leading Turkish newspaper, Yeni \u015eafak<\/i>, reported the two leaders to have also collaborated in hiding the murder on October 2nd in Istanbul of Washington Post<\/i> columnist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/span><\/p>\n Yeni \u015eafak<\/i> headlined “Dahlan \u2018cover-up team\u2019 from Lebanon helps hide traces of Khashoggi murder\u201d<\/span><\/a> and reported that on October 2nd, \u201cA second team that arrived in Istanbul to help cover-up the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was dispatched by Muhammed Dahlan, UAE Crown Prince Muhammed bin Zayed\u2019s chief hitman in the region, \u2026 according to an informed source who spoke to Yeni \u015eafak<\/i> daily on the condition of anonymity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n On November 16th, the Washington Post<\/i> had headlined \u201cCIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi\u2019s assassination\u201d<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Bin Salman and bin Zayed are U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s closest foreign allies other than, possibly, Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. All four men are determined that there be regime-change in Shiite Iran. This anti-Shia position bonds them also against the Houthis, who are Shiites, in Yemen, where bin Salman and bin Zayed lead the war, and the United States provides the training, logistics, and weapons. Both bin Salman and bin Zayed are fundamentalist Sunnis who are against Shia Muslims. Israel and the United States are allied with these two princes. Saudi Arabia\u2019s royal family have been committed against Shia Muslims ever since 1744<\/span><\/a> when the Saud family made a pact with the fundamentalist Sunni preacher Mohammed ibn Wahhab, who hated Shia Muslims. Thus, Saudi Arabia is actually Saudi-Wahhabi Arabia, with Sauds running the aristocracy, and Wahhabists running the clergy.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2017, in Saudi Arabia\u2019s capital of Riyadh, Trump sold, to the Saudi Crown Prince, initially, $350 billion of U.S.-made weapons over a ten-year period<\/span><\/a> (the largest weapons-sale in world history), and $110 billion in just the first year. That deal was soon increased to $404 billion<\/span><\/a>. For Trump publicly to acknowledge that Salman had \u201cordered Jamal Khashoggi\u2019s assassination\u201d would jeopardize this entire deal, and, perhaps, jeopardize the consequent boom in America\u2019s economy. It also would jeopardize the U.S. alliance\u2019s war against Shiites in Yemen.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" photo of Prince bin Zayed courtesy mubadala.com Eric Zuesse Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al-Saud, and UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan, are close friends and allies, who jointly lead the war against Houthi-led Yemen. On Sunday afternoon, November 18th, a leading Turkish newspaper, Yeni \u015eafak, reported the two leaders to have also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":385639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[1036,96,3604,535,64462,92,65741,910],"class_list":{"0":"post-385637","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-cover-up","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-global-news","13":"tag-khashoggi","14":"tag-terrorism","15":"tag-uae-sauds","16":"tag-yemen"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385640,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385637\/revisions\/385640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}