CHINA’S PRESIDENT XI CAN HAVE HIS PRISON CAMPS, & THE SAUDI CROWN PRINCE CAN HAVE HIS MURDER

… Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), the man that ordered the murder of an American journalist

Today’s head of the kingdom at the center of Islam, ignores 1 million Muslims held in Chinese prison camps

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is even more of a bad guy than we knew, and that’s saying something.

The combined assessment of the United States intelligence agencies have stated that they fully believe that the Crown Prince ordered the murder and dismemberment of the Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.  Nothing goes on in the Saudi kingdom without the knowledge and direction of the Crown Prince.

It was recently made known to MBS, who rules a kingdom that views itself as the defender of the Islamic faith, that China had imprisoned an estimated 1 million Muslims into concentration camps in western China.  In addition, that China had sent ethnic Han Chinese to live with these Muslim families and to report on any Muslim who refuses to eat pork or shave their beard.  Oh, and let’s not forget that China was also wrenching the Muslim children away from their parents for their reprogramming them away from their faith and culture in China’s mass orphanages.

So, what did MBS do?  He requested a meeting to confront the Chinese President, Xi Jinping.

When he met with Xi, just what did he have a to say to president Xi?

Well, the prince had not one negative thing to say on behalf of China’s Muslims.  In fact, MBS actually defended what Xi called “an effort to fight foreign extremism”.

Yes, that is actually what happened. And the reason for this final result is very simple: 
In return for ignoring the 1 million Muslims in China’s camps, China also defended Saudi Arabia’s right to orchestrate a murder, and to get away with it.

MBS apparently said to Xi, “Your concentration camps are your internal affair.  My conspiracy to commit murder is my internal affair.  Isn’t it nice that we understand each other.”

It has now been nearly five months since The Post columnist Khashoggi was lured to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, murdered and dismembered.  Little accountability for this murder has been achieved since then.

It is not that so little has been discovered about the crime.  Despite an on-going shifting of lies from the Saudi government, the intelligence community actually knows quite a lot.

They know that the crown prince, who is second in command to his father, King Salman, but MBS runs the government.  He told a top aide before the killing that he would use “a bullet” on Khashoggi if the exiled journalist did not return to Saudi Arabia and stop criticizing the Saudi regime.  This was because Khashoggi had been writing op-ed articles that had seriously criticized the Crown Prince.

The American investigators also know that when Khashoggi visited the consulate in Turkey to take care of some paperwork for his up-coming marriage, he was instructed to return to the consulate on a particular day on the following week.  The investigators have learned that the Saudi government sent two private planeloads containing 15 Saudi officials to Istanbul, including very close aides to MBS.  One close aide was actually a forensic medical expert who arrived in Istanbul with a bone saw.

The investigators learned that Khashoggi’s fiancé waited outside when Khashoggi entered the consulate, as he was just picking up some papers.  This Saudi hit squad had instructed the Saudi consul to leave his office.  He left the building and has not been publicly heard from since, and neither had Khashoggi’s fiancé seen or heard from Khashoggi after he entered the consulate.

Because the Turkish government had been eavesdropping on the foreign consulate, they have reported that the eavesdropping confirmed that Khashoggi was gruesomely murdered.

The US investigators were informed that when Turkey tried to investigate the crime, the Saudi’s barred the Turkish police from the consulate, which had diplomatic immunity, and that would keep the Turk’s away until the Saudi’s had a chance to clean and scour the place of any possible forensic evidence

Saudi Arabia now says it will put some individuals sent there on trial for the murder.  Of course, they will not say who will be on trial, but it is clear that it will be the henchmen, not the murder ringleaders that are at risk.  If the executions do occur, which they probably will, they will be more than likely killed to remove any witnesses, than to deliver justice.

Even for having all this knowledge, the consequences to the Saudi's so far have been highly questionable.  President Trump, says he believes the Crown Prince who denies any knowledge of the act, (just like Trump believes Putin), in defiance of the known facts.  Trump refuses to admit to anyone regarding the Crown Prince’s obvious culpability.  Congress so far has taken no action to insist that Mohammed or Saudi Arabia should be punished for this murder of an American journalist.  In addition, the UN secretary general has been totally silent.

Fortunately, the kingdom and MBS are having to pay a price for this ghastly issue.   Mohammed bin Salman, who had toured triumphantly through US businesses and academic facilities just before the murder, he knows now that he would not be welcome in America.  US think tanks, universities, and even major businesses understand that public association with MBS or the Saudi regime is no longer a smart marketing strategy.

On top of that, the US Congress has expressed misgivings about the Saudis’ support of the brutal war in Yemen and about the Saudi’s nuclear ambitions.  Congress may yet have something to say about the Khashoggi murder.  In addition, the UN Special department on the judicial summary of arbitrary executions is currently investigating the murder.

So, this is why the Crown Prince has now turned to China.  He understands that human rights violators normally will find a positive level of absolution in Beijing.  He must have understood that if he, as guardian of Islam’s two holiest sites, absolved China of its anti-Muslim actions, he would be welcomed in China.

There were no negative comments from the Crown Prince when he visited President Xi regarding the imprisoned one million Muslims.  

Therefore, today, Xi can keep his Muslim concentration camps, and MBS can have his murder.  Between the two, these are just each nation’s, “internal affairs”.

Copyright G. Ater 2019