West loves Saudi repression on a daily basis

Yes (via Salon’s Glenn Greenwald):

For all the righteous talk about human rights oppression and violent assaults on democratic protesters in the Muslim world, any honest ranking would place Saudi Arabia… near… or at… the top… of that list. This week, the long-time head of the deeply repressive Saudi Interior Ministry, Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, died. Prince Nayef — in addition to having been one of the hardest-line religious conservatives… opposed… to internal reforms, having been… accused… by Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2003 of having a “well-documented history of suborning terrorist financing,” and having… blamed “Zionists”… for plotting the 9/11 attack — was one of America’s closest and most loyal allies in the region.

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