Hariri Does Paris
By Pepe Escobar
November 19, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- It’s not that Saad Hariri was itching for
a shopping spree at Avenue Montaigne.
French MSM is spicing up the steak tartare
to oblivion trying to spin a foreign policy
“victory”. Nonsense.
The true story starts in Abu Dhabi when Sun
King Macron was having dinner with
all-powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed
(MBZ) during the inauguration of the Louvre
in the Sands (doesn’t it sound like a
casino?)
What happened is that MBZ grabbed his mobile
and secured a meeting between Macron and MBS
for the day after. Easy; after all MBZ is
MBS’s mentor – and de facto chief
strategist.
Macron’s people had been trying FOR WEEKS to
get a meeting with MBS. Zayed did it with
one single phone call.
Afterwards, MBS threw a breadcrumb to the
begging Macron; OK, you can meet Hariri and
even take him away. But under certain
conditions; French Minister Le Drian had to
publicly scold Iran – which he did; and on
top of it Le Drian cancelled his trip to
Tehran next week to prepare the terrain for
Macron’s own visit.
Talk about “French power”.
Additionally, Hariri WAS indeed kidnapped
and under house arrest in Riyadh – as many
of us reported.
He even begged for asylum in Amman, Jordan.
Denied – because the Jordanians are
essentially Saudi vassals.
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The New York Times BURIED the info at the end of this piece:
“Mr. Hariri reached out to Jordan with a
request to go to Amman as a safe haven, a
Western official said. The request was
denied, the official said, because the
Saudis had pressured Jordan not to accept
him. A spokeswoman at the Embassy of Jordan
in Washington denied that such a request had
been made.”
Who the hell wants exile in the land of King
Playstation? Hariri at least is drinking
good Margaux.
And the MBS Lebanon power play is an
absolute, resounding fiasco.
Pepe Escobar is an independent geopolitical analyst. https://www.facebook.com/pepe.escobar.77377?
Saad Hariri and his family meet France's Macron at Elysee
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