Congress Caves To Saudi Arabia On Yemen War
Deconstructed
The Intercept
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🗓️ 10 December 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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This week the senate voted down a resolution that would have blocked a defensive weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The measure attracted support from senators of both parties for its potential to pressure the Saudis to end the war in Yemen. Intercept reporters Sara Sirota and Ken Klippenstein join Ryan Grim to discuss what the politics surrounding Saudi Arabia look like with a democrat back in the White House.
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| 0:00.0 | This week was quite the rollercoaster for Saudi Arabian crown prince Mohammed bin |
| 0:09.7 | Salma. |
| 0:11.1 | Beginning with news that one of his top deputies had been arrested in Paris in connection |
| 0:14.8 | with the butchering of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018 at the Saudi consulate in Turkey. |
| 0:19.6 | A Saudi man suspected of involvement in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi |
| 0:24.6 | is arrested in Paris. |
| 0:26.0 | He was detained at Shaldaq Airport after his name appeared to mash a man wanted in the |
| 0:30.8 | killing. |
| 0:31.8 | Later that day, the US Senate took up a resolution aimed at blocking a $650 million arm sale |
| 0:37.3 | to Saudi Arabia to put pressure on them to end the war in Yemen. |
| 0:40.9 | We could stop this war if we rarely had the will to do it. |
| 0:45.0 | All America should be appalled at the humanitarian disaster caused by the Saudi blockade of Yemen. |
| 0:51.1 | The vote failed 67-30. By the next day, the suspect had also been released with French police |
| 0:57.1 | saying that the man, Khaled al-Otayb, had conclusively demonstrated it was a case of mistaken |
| 1:02.3 | identity. |
| 1:03.3 | These aren't the droids you're looking for. |
| 1:05.3 | These aren't the droids we're looking for. |
| 1:08.3 | Move along. |
| 1:09.3 | Come on. |
| 1:10.3 | Come on. |
| 1:11.3 | There are indeed an endless number of Calais in Saudi Arabia and even more al-Otayb's, |
| 1:16.4 | so the story is plausible. |
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