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David Bell

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Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

That is horrific.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Yeah, it would be operatives of the same rapid intervention group that Mohammed bin Salman called upon to murder now dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

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.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

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.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

so they could train with a private security firm, the Tier 1 Group.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Per the New York Times, the mercenary firm, quote, is owned by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

The company says the training, including safe marksmanship and countering an attack, was defensive in nature and designed to better protect Saudi leaders.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

One person familiar with the training said it

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It also included work in surveillance.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Yes, the good men at Cerberus Capital Management have a private army that they're using to train Mohammed bin Salman's goon squad.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Rich people for the longest time, it's the weirdest thing that how they're just like palantir.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Like they're just, you know what?

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

We're not going to even lie about that.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Yeah, we're just, let's call it like it is.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It's like the only honesty they have.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

It's so weird.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Yeah, yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

My new capital management firm, I Just Shot a Baby Incorporated.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Yeah.

Behind the Bastards
Part Four: Prince Mohammed Bin Salman: The Tyrant of Saudi Arabia

Named after the time I shot a baby.