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Obama meets new Saudi interior minister at White House
President Barack Obama met Saudi Arabia’s new interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, on Monday to discuss security and regional issues, the White House said.
Prince Mohammed, appointed in November after the death of his father, veteran Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, is best known as Saudi Arabia’s long-time security chief and has garnered the praise of Western governments for his role in the campaign against al Qaeda.
“They affirmed the strong partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and discussed security and regional issues of mutual interest,” the White House said in a brief of the Oval Office talks between Obama and Prince Mohammed.
Seen as an ally of the West, Saudi Arabia – the world’s top oil exporter – has provided critical intelligence to foil al Qaeda plots, bankrolled pro-Western Arab governments and has supported Washington’s attempts to isolate Iran over its nuclear program.
Prince Mohammed’s appointment as interior minister lifted him into a critical role for the ruling al-Saud family and one that had only been held by the current ruling generation. Analysts say he is in tune with King Abdullah’s cautious social and economic reforms partly aimed at making Saudi society more open to outside influence.
3 Comments on "Obama meets new Saudi interior minister at White House"
TIKIMAN on Tue, 15th Jan 2013 2:07 pm
I’m sure Obama will bow to him like he did to the Saudi king several years back.
And I am sure Obama will bring the anal lube.
Oh.. he is also trying to ban guns. Try him for TRASON!
DC on Tue, 15th Jan 2013 3:13 pm
There are no Al-Q plots for this clod to foil, not in Saudi Arabia, not anywhere. What he IS ‘foiling’, are protests by the people there against the most corrupt and repressive of US satraps in the world, and replace it with something that works with its neighbours, not undermine them, and seeks to use its resources for its own uses, not amerikas.
Arthur on Wed, 16th Jan 2013 1:05 pm
“Seen as an ally of the West, Saudi Arabia”
It is more correct to say that the ‘House of Saud’ is being kept in the saddle by the US. The entire scheme is based on a decades old (1973) agreement that SA will deliver oil for freshly printed dollars (at no cost for the US) and in return SA will receive ‘protection’ (for instance against an internal uprising) by the US army. Because of Bretton Woods, SA was garanteed to buy real values anywhere in the western world for these dollars. Basically Americans had free oil, paid for by the workers (not just Americans) who produced the products SA would buy. In reality this means that the ruling clan is garanteed to, well, rule as long as the oil flows, enabling thousands of ‘princes’ to live a jet-set life at the Cote-d’Azure. Who will threaten this kind of arrangement, advantageous for Americans and SA ruling elite? 1) Saudi population, first and foremost the Shi’ites, who due to a twist of fate, populate the oil provinces 2) Europe, who would not mind to compete on currency with the US, but has no military means/stamina to directly confront the US on this issue. The relationsship between the western European elites and Washington is exactly the same as that of the eastern European communists and Moscow, before 1990. The elite has too much invested in the old relationship to be tempted to challenge the US. But alliances come and go and the US finances are the least sustainable of the entire western world…
http://tinyurl.com/b8xuydk
…the US has piled up promisses 13.78 times the size of the GDP, that are as a consequence never going to be kept, so at some point in time, something is going to give, probably among them military spending, retirement, medicare, civil servant wages, NASA, etc. So from a European perspective it is better to wait until reality finally sinks in in Washington. The ‘solution’ in my view will be that the US population will consider Washington as a failed state after a default and go in the 1776 mode an secede and simply cancel the foreign debt. This will p*** off the rest of the world, first of all China, but they can do nothing about it except refuse deliveries of goods against paper money. The US will become isolationalist, probably with a Ron Paul clone as a president (Jesse Ventura?). Could happen in 2016. Jesse Ventura as the American Jeltzin, standing on a tank in front of Capitol Hill, demanding 9/11-truth. The US population will play along as it sees an escape from the neocons and their intention of using the American population as canon fodder for their NWO pet project. This scenario will offer the US a chance to start all over again. This or WW3 are the most likely scenarios.