{"id":56606,"date":"2019-03-07T10:16:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=56606"},"modified":"2019-03-07T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:16:24","slug":"saudi-prince-has-gone-full-gangster-says-us-senator-rubio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/saudi-prince-has-gone-full-gangster-says-us-senator-rubio\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Prince has gone \u2018full gangster\u2019, says US Senator Rubio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>US Senator Marco Rubio has accused Saudi Arabia\u2019s Crown \nPrince Mohammed bin Salman of going \u201cfull gangster\u201d and urged President \nDonald Trump\u2019s nominee for Ambassador to Riyadh to hold the country \naccountable for human rights abuses.<\/strong><br><br>The Florida Senator\n added that the Saudi royal was \u201creckless, ruthless\u201d and \u201cincreasingly \nwilling to test the limits of what he can get away with\u201d.<br><br>Rubio\u2019s\n remark came during retired General John Abizaid\u2019s nomination hearing on\n Wednesday to be the Trump administration\u2019s first ambassador to Saudi \nArabia.<br><br>The Saudi list of offences, Rubio and other lawmakers \nnoted during the hearing, include the killing of civilians in the \nUS-supported conflict in Yemen, the murder of Washington Post columnist \nJamal Khashoggi, the alleged torture of an American citizen and the \ndetention of women\u2019s rights activists.<br><br>The ambassadorial nominee \nhowever, stressed that the US relationship with the Saudis was bigger \nthan the Crown Prince, and that the best way to change conditions in the\n Arab kingdom was through engagement. \u201cIt is in our interest to make \nsure that the relationship is sound,\u201d Abizaid said.<br><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Marco Rubio has accused Saudi Arabia\u2019s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of going \u201cfull gangster\u201d and urged President Donald Trump\u2019s nominee for Ambassador to Riyadh to hold the country accountable for human rights abuses. The Florida Senator added that the Saudi royal was \u201creckless, ruthless\u201d and \u201cincreasingly willing to test the limits of [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56608,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56606\/revisions\/56608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}