US to Train Saudi Arabia Prison Officials

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: TYT

By: Ken Klippenstein Oct 18, 2018

The State Department is actively seeking U.S. contractors to aid Saudi Arabian prison officials, according to federal procurement records reviewed by TYT. (1)

The assistance will come in the form of a training program, carried out by an American contractor, regarding management of incarcerated women, according to the documents. Human-rights observers have noted a recent spike in the number of female political prisoners there, and the treatment of women has been a long-standing issue in a nation that has been faulted for a range of human-rights abuses.

The new training program is being started at a time when President Donald Trump is drawing criticism for the US relationship with the Saudis. Specific issues include his real-estate dealings, and his handling of the alleged murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi who was living in the United States. Khashoggi reportedly had his fingers cut off while he was still alive and was then beheaded.

Saudi Arabia's new crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, commonly referred to as MBS, had personally authorized an operation to lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia and then detain him, according to a report in The Washington Post citing U.S. intelligence intercepts. (2)
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(1) https://www.fbo.gov/index.php?sopportunity&modeform&id6dbc621c7b1ebc49187fe1a92bab4f81&tabcore&_cview0

(2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/crown-prince-sought-to-lure-khashoggi-back-to-saudi-arabia-and-detain-him-us-intercepts-show/2018/10/10/57bd7948-cc9a-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

Read more: https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/55ye8Kw8dGs0yc0sYQu82a

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I don't know how reliable TYT is as a news source. If it's suspect, I'll self-delete this and reopen in some other thread or probably not at all.

VeryHiddenGeniusHat Retweeted

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SCOOP: The State Department is soliciting US contractors to train Saudi Arabian women's prisons, I found.

The number of women jailed for political activism has skyrocketed under crown prince MBS, Human Rights Watch tells me:
https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKagy0oyMA/55ye8Kw8dGs0yc0sYQu82a ...

Link to tweet

[not_the_one]

1. I wonder if the US contractor name being floated is...

Erik Prince?

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. So, a Trump friendly contractor is about to get rich.

I hope we learn the name of the company, so we can look it up.

[jmowreader]

2. Don't the Saudis already know how to violate human rights?

[Algernon Moncrieff]

3. Here is the training film

[Corgigal]

5. Women's prison?

Like living in that oppressive country isn't bad enough. Who is making money off of this, pay to murder contract? DeVos got a quick LLC prison training program? Don Jr?