Saudi Impunity on American Soil: FBI finds Saudi Arabia helps its citizens escape the U.S. after serious crimes while U.S. officials look the other way
By Julio Severo
A new report from the FBI has revealed
that the Islamic dictatorship of Saudi Arabia “almost certainly” helps its
citizens escape prosecution for serious crimes they are charged with in the U.S.,
and American officials have looked the other way for years.
It is the first time a federal law
enforcement agency acknowledged the “secret” practice of Saudi Arabia.
To make things worse, if a Saudi who
committed a crime in the U.S. escapes to Saudi Arabia there is no chance for justice.
While allies, the U.S. and Saudi Arabia do not have an extradition treaty,
making it difficult and unlikely that a Saudi citizen charged with a crime in
the U.S. would be released without diplomatic or political pressure.
Among cases of Saudi Arabia helping its
citizens to escape the U.S. justice is a Saudi student wanted for killing
a 15-year-old girl in Oregon almost four years ago.
Abdulrahman Sameer Noorah, 21, was
due to stand trial in Portland in June 2017, but vanished nine days before the
start date.
He was on bail on a single count of
manslaughter for allegedly killing Fallon Smart by running her over as she
crossed the road on August 19, 2016.
Noorah, who was studying on a scholarship
at Portland Community College, was driving on a suspended license at the time.
Despite Fallon’s families’ pleas to deny
him bail, it was set at $1million and a tenth, $100,000, was paid by the Saudi
Arabian embassy in Los Angeles, triggering his release.
The conditions of his release stated that
he had to remain under house arrest. As part of his bail conditions, Noorah was
forced to surrender his passport.
Nine days before his trial was due to
start, however, police discovered that the electronic ankle bracelet he was
forced to wear had been removed and were unable to find him.
He was then later believed to have fled on
a private jet with the help of his country’s consulate. He vanished after
being picked up from his college campus in a black SUV.
U.S. authorities suspect Noorah used an
illicit passport to escape to Saudi Arabia on a private jet provided by the
Saudi consulate.
Saudi officials confirmed to U.S.
authorities that Noorah had returned to Saudi Arabia seven days after he went
missing.
Officials with the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security and US Marshals Service are certain the Saudi government was
involved in Noorah’s escape.
An investigation by The Oregonian revealed
that four other Saudi students, who were studying in Oregon and facing similar
circumstances to Noorah, had also fled the U.S. in recent years.
All were young men studying at one of
Oregon’s public colleges or universities with assistance from Saudi Arabia.
Waleed Ali Alharthi, who was an Oregon
State University student, was found allegedly in possession of child porn in
April of 2015.
Police said they found pornographic videos
on his laptop involving children. He was arrested and booked on 10 counts of
encouraging child sex abuse.
The consulate also put up the security
deposit for his $500,000 bail. Later, he fled. He was flown from Mexico City to
Paris to Saudi Arabia.
In a similar case a few years prior,
Abdulaziz Al Duways was arrested in December 2014 over the rape of a female
classmate at Western Oregon University.
He was charged with rape and held on a
$500,000 bond. Days later, a Saudi consulate official paid his bond and Al
Duways vanished before he faced court.
In 2012, Oregon State University student
Ali Hussain Alhamoud was charged with raping a young woman.
He was released on bail, which the Saudi
government posted, and he flew back to Saudi Arabia that same day.
Sami Suliman Almezaini, of Gallatin
County, Montana, is accused of raping his female roommate in July 2017, the
same month he disappeared.
Saud Alabdullatif, of Spokane County,
Washington, disappeared in May 2016. He was charged with forcible second-degree
rape and unlawful imprisonment after he forced a woman to perform oral sex on
him that month.
Abdullah Almakrami, of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, disappeared one month after he allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in
March 2014.
Hani Alshammary, of Erie County,
Pennsylvania, is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in April 2014.
He was charged with attempted rape,
forcible compulsion, unlawful restraint, harassment and disorderly conduct.
Fahad Al Ghuwainem, of Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma, disappeared in December 2014, two months after he allegedly raped a
man with a male accomplice after the three linked up at a gay bar.
Siraj Marakeey, of Snohomish County,
Washington, disappeared July 1991. He was accused of first-degree rape for
sexually assaulting a child in June 1991.
These are not the only Saudi crimes
overlooked by U.S. officials. There are vastly bigger crimes. There is the 9/11,
committed by mostly Saudi terrorists. Yet, Saudi Arabia “warned it would start
selling as much as $750 billion in Treasuries and other assets if Congress
passes a bill allowing the kingdom to be held liable in U.S. courts for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.”
If Iranians had raped and killed Americans
on American soil, it would be impossible for them to escape from the U.S.,
especially with the aid of the Iranian embassy and consulates.
If Iranians had committed the 9/11, it
would be impossible for Iran to escape from the U.S. military interventions.
Saudi Arabia goes unpunished for any of its
misdeeds because it is “one of America’s largest foreign creditors.”
So this is the reason that the U.S.
military deploys thousands of young Americans to die “patriotically” for the Saudis.
And for the sake of Saudis, the U.S. military kills. They
killed an Iranian general — obviously, to please Saudis, who hate Iranians.
In his article “US
Debt Got Us Hooked On Petrodollars… And On Saudi Arabia,” author Ryan
McMaken said,
“But why should the US continue to so
robustly support this dictatorial regime? Certainly, these close relations
can't be due to any American support for democracy and human rights. The Saudi
regime is one of the world's most illiberal and anti-democratic regimes. Its
ruling class has repeatedly been connected to Islamist terrorist groups,
with Foreign Policy magazine last year calling Saudi Arabia ‘the beating heart of Wahhabism —
the harsh, absolutist religious creed that helped seed the worldviews of al
Qaeda and the Islamic State.’ … The answer lies in the fact the Saudi state is
at the center of US efforts to maintain the dollar as the world’s reserve
currency, and to ensure global demand for US debt.”
In 1974 the U.S. made a devil’s deal with
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia and its Islamic allies would use only dollars for
their oil transactions, strengthening the dollar as the world currency, and the
U.S. would protect Saudi Arabia from its geopolitical enemies. The deal also
included that Saudi Arabia had to invest in the U.S. and buy the massive U.S.
debt. Saudi Arabia has done it, and as result the U.S. is, through its own
debts, enslaved to Saudi Arabia.
So it is no wonder that whatever Saudi Arabia
does in the U.S., against the U.S., against other nations and against
Christians, the U.S. government just looks the other way. In fact, the U.S. not
only does look the other way but also looks positively on Saudis even when
nothing is positive. State Secretary Mike
Pompeo, when he was the CIA director, visited Saudi Arabia to reward them for
their efforts “against terrorism.” Did he add “good behavior” for Saudis
involved in the 9/11? This reward was not result of reality. It was the act of
a nation in debt pleasing its creditor.
Pompeo, who is an evangelical, traveled to
Saudi Arabia representing the U.S. government and Christianity, because
whatever post you have, you cannot dissociate your Christianity from it. The anti-reality
reward was given by a U.S. citizen representing the U.S. government and
evangelicals.
Is it any wonder that churches
are closing and mosques are opening in America? The answer may be in the morally
and spiritually disastrous deal of the U.S. with Saudi Arabia, where the former
is enslaved to the latter through a massive and deep debt. The answer may be also
in U.S. evangelicals, like Pompeo, accepting for America to submit to a
terrorist Islamic dictatorship. Pat
Robertson, one of the most prominent U.S. evangelical leaders, has completely
excused the massive U.S. deals where American weapons are sold and transferred to
Saudi Arabia — to aid and abet Saudi crimes, including crimes against
Christians.
Will America with her evangelicals spend
all the eternity pleasing her Saudi terrorist creditors?
Portuguese version of this article: Impunidade saudita em solo americano: FBI revela que Arábia
Saudita ajuda seus cidadãos a escapar dos EUA após crimes sérios, enquanto autoridades
americanas fazem vista grossa
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