It starts with an extremely fishy “secret” meeting this past Monday at the White House.
Trump received a known mutt, the House of One Saudi’s Vice Minister of Defence, Prince Khalid bin Salman, MBS’s brother. The Prince, overawed, sent a photo tweet. We see him side by side with Jared of Arabia Kushner, Robert O’Brien, Trump’s national security adviser, and Victoria Coates, O’Brien’s deputy.
And seating at the Resolute Desk, POTUS, of course.
The meeting was NOT on Trumps’ schedule. The
White House press pool was ignored, and was fuming afterwards.
It’s not hard to imagine what they were discussing. THE BLUNDER. Remember, this was Day 3 after the Soleimani hit. After all it was Trump himself who had ordered the Saudis to talk to the Iranians via the Iraqis – as many of us reported, after the extraordinary account by Iraq PM Mahdi on Sunday.
So the US story had to be changed. And that became Soleimani plotting “imminent and sinister” attacks against US diplomats.
Consul Pompeus “We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole” Minimus started parroting it right away. Obviously without volunteering ANY evidence.
But there’s a trail leading to the origin of the “evidence”. Dissident US intel sources reveal that Israel concocted a “drone recording” where “Soleimani” and “associates” discuss attacks on US forces and/or locations throughout the Middle East, just the day of the US Embassy “incidents”. They gave the recording to “We Lied, We Cheated” Pompeo. It’s easy to follow what happened next.
So where’s the “evidence”? Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said we may see it one day:
“I will be happy, when the appropriate time comes in front of the proper committees and anybody else, through history and every — I’ll stand by the intelligence I saw, that — that was compelling, it was imminent, and it was very, very clear in scale, scope.”
We’ll be waiting. Perhaps forever.
Pepe Escobar
