Breaking: American mercenaries torturing Saudi princes

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I'm calling bullshit.

The Saudis are just about the last folks on the list that would have to outsource torture.

I definitely would agree with that if this was a decade or more ago. It's not their MO. They bring in outsiders to do their menial work. They do their best to keep said outsiders away from the populace so they don't contaminate them with their western ideals. Involving outsiders in something like this? Not their MO at all. If this is true, it's a major shift.

I was over there with the USAF after the first Gulf War in 1992, during the start of Southern Watch - the imposition of the no-fly zone against Iraq. I did get the impression that these people were massively fucked if their oil ran out or their customers found other options. They were TOTALLY dependent on others to do nearly everything for them. If they suddenly found themselves unable to afford outside help, they would have no domestic options at all. All their own knew how to do was pray or (if they were rich) go party their ass off in Bahrain where Allah apparently looked the other way.

If the Saudis are now truly in the position where they must work for themselves, I imagine they are in a panic - because so few of them even know how. They are looking at an express elevator back to the stone age - going down.

I don't know what to think of this BBC report. If it's true - wow!