Apparently “Alzabarah [is] believed to be in Saudi Arabia” [1].
What the fuck?! Sooner we can decouple from that regime the better in my book.
[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-former-twitter-employees-...
"The Saudis, a despotic, murderous regime who... er, what's that? Gas prices are where? The Saudis, a heroic, brave people, living in a wonderful country with a deep culture of..."
"Yeah, hey, buddy, pal, MBS-o, think you could maybe squeak out a couple more MBPD? Elections coming up and... oh... really? Few hundred thousand, tops? Well, I guess, see what you can do... thanks!"
sigh :(
https://www.economist.com/1843/2022/07/28/mbs-despot-in-the-...
1) Completely out of his f---ing mind!
2) Indisputably important and in control.
3) Remarkably easy to please.
Now, sure, I could be wrong about any of these -- my sources of information are almost exclusively the US/EU press, which are not free of bias and might hold a globally minority definition of "truth."
But when you consider what's at stake, and which other famous defenders of Human Rights we're in bed with, I honestly can't understand why we (US/EU) are not working more actively with the most transparent one.
They didn’t.
“Abouammo was arrested in Seattle, Washington, on Nov. 5, 2019, and made his initial federal court appearance in Seattle at 2:00 p.m.on Nov. 6, 2019” [1]. He is the one they left behind.
[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-former-twitter-employees-...
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/trial-ab...