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Saudis gave Obama aides suitcases full of jewels: Former US official
[PRESSTV] A former top aide to ex-US president Barack ObamaIt’s very rare that I come to an event where I’m like the fifth- or sixth-most interesting person.... says Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... gave a delegation of United States officials visiting the kingdom for the first time large suitcases containing jewelry worth tens of thousands of dollars. Obama’s speechwriter and former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes wrote in his newly-released memoir that Saudi authorities gave White House aides the suitcases on their arrival to Riyadh in June 2009. In the book, entitled "The World As It Is," Rhodes explained that after landing in Saudi Arabia, the US officials were taken by golf carts to "identical housing units amid the rolling desert." "When I opened the door to my unit, I found a large suitcase," he wrote. "Inside were jewels." Rhodes explained that he initially thought it was a bribe aimed at him because he was Obama’s speechwriter; but he later found that others in the delegation had received "suitcases full of jewels" as well.
Posted by: Fred 2018-06-07 |
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