Saturday, November 18, 2017

Can someone own parts of US companies at gunpoint?

In a secret deal the US, UK and the Kurds allowed ISIS fighters to escape from their headquarters in Raqqa, with their families and heavy weapons, a BBC investigation uncovered. 50 trucks, 13 buses and more than 100 ISIS vehicles were used to transport about 250 fighters and over 3,500 family members to safety. The deal was brokered by Syrian Democratic Forces and coalition aircraft dropped flares to guide the terrorists to safety. It is the same old stupid American belief that some terrorists are good, which saw Ronald Reagan invite Jalaluddin Haqqani to the White House. Today the US wants Pakistan to eradicate the Haqqani network which would allow it to get its troops out of Afghanistan. Russia maintains that there are no good terrorists in Syria. Early this month at least 11 members of the Saudi royal family and dozens of officials were arrested in a kind of palace coup. Apparently, these arrests are linked to a massive corruption scandal involving a bank, called International Banking Corporation, operated by one Maan al-Sanea, through which he defrauded his in-laws, the Gosaibis. Sanea was arrested in a police raid in October. The bank's CEO was an American, called Glenn Stewart, who was in Bahrain at the time of Sanea's arrest but managed to escape in a yacht to Iraq, from where he has reached the US. The US has a huge naval base in Bahrain and the Iraqi government is indebted to the US for getting rid of Saddam Hussein. The coup in Saudi Arabia was organised by the Crown Prince, 32 year old Mohammad bin Salman, whose father is the king at present, in a ruthless power grab. Analysts think that falling oil prices are putting the Saudi economy under great pressure. So the arrest of these extremely wealthy individuals is actually intended to grab all their wealth. Apparently, these people have been asked to buy their freedom in exchange for their wealth. One of them, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns large numbers of shares in the Savoy in London, and in US companies, like Citi group and Apple. Why are the US and UK governments allowing someone to take over large numbers of shares in their companies, with seats on their boards, through force and blackmail? Extraordinary. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is blockading ports in Yemen preventing vital aid from reaching its people. No US or UN sanctions on the Saudis. However, the US is contemplating levying sanctions on Myanmar for the Rohingya refugee crisis. Where are the Rohingya jihadists coming from? From Saudi Arabia. So, the US and its allies are in bed with terrorists, but sanctions on anyone who resists. A strange world. 

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