David Bell
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That is horrific.
Yeah, it would be operatives of the same rapid intervention group that Mohammed bin Salman called upon to murder now dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
He had written critically of the prince's Ritz-Carlton kidnapping spree the previous year and about the ongoing detention of women's driving advocates.
What he didn't know was that mere months before MBS started his campaign to destroy dissent, he sent agents of his rapid intervention group, mostly military veterans, to the U.S.
so they could train with a private security firm, the Tier 1 Group.
Per the New York Times, the mercenary firm, quote, is owned by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.
The company says the training, including safe marksmanship and countering an attack, was defensive in nature and designed to better protect Saudi leaders.
One person familiar with the training said it
It also included work in surveillance.
Yes, the good men at Cerberus Capital Management have a private army that they're using to train Mohammed bin Salman's goon squad.
Rich people for the longest time, it's the weirdest thing that how they're just like palantir.
Like they're just, you know what?
We're not going to even lie about that.
Yeah, we're just, let's call it like it is.
It's like the only honesty they have.
It's so weird.
Yeah, yeah.
My new capital management firm, I Just Shot a Baby Incorporated.
Yeah.
Named after the time I shot a baby.