{"id":181746,"date":"2016-03-28T19:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/28\/erdogan-is-now-owned-by-the-house-of-saud\/"},"modified":"2016-03-28T19:37:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T00:37:00","slug":"erdogan-is-now-owned-by-the-house-of-saud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/28\/erdogan-is-now-owned-by-the-house-of-saud\/","title":{"rendered":"Erdo\u011fan Is Now Owned by the House of Saud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that, following his indictment for money laundering, <a href=\"http:\/\/awdnews.com\/top-news\/rome%E2%80%99s-police-spokesman-saudi-embassy-helped-erdo%C4%9Fan%E2%80%99s-son-to-escape-the-police-custody-using-a-forged-saudi-passport-and-disguised-as-an-arab-diplomat\">Bilal Erdo\u011fan was smuggled out of Italy with aid from the Saudi Embassy, which included hiring the Mafia and using a Saudi diplomatic passport<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to Rai News 24, Italian police spokesman Lt. Colonel Domenico Grimaldi accused the Saudi legation in Rome of facilitating the escape of Bilal Erdo\u011fan who was detained for money laundering allegations. Bilal Erdo\u011fan\u2019s short detention in Rome and later escape are the latest in a series of scandals hitting President Erdo\u011fan\u2019s family.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cMafia activities continue to plague our judicial system and the Polizia di Stato is blamed for this humiliating security lapse in Rome airport. We also found that a notorious mafia gang active in Calabria and Sicily was hired by members in the Saudi embassy and they managed to release Mr.  Erdo\u011fan from Regina Coeli Prison,\u201d police spokesman Lt. Colonel Grimaldi told AFP.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">They moved Bilal Erdo\u011fan to Excelsior Hotel, added Lt. Colonel Grimaldi, and Erdo\u011fan was caught on cameras leaving the Hotel, donned traditional Arab dress and adroitly disguised as a Saudi diplomat; Bilal passed the security check holding a fake Saudi diplomatic passport and we believe, he couldn\u2019t have escaped without the connivance of a number of police officers in Leonardo da Vinci Airport.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turkey is a US ally like Pakistan is a US ally, which is to say, &#8220;Not at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2016\/03\/links-32816.html\">Naked Capitalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that, following his indictment for money laundering, Bilal Erdo\u011fan was smuggled out of Italy with aid from the Saudi Embassy, which included hiring the Mafia and using a Saudi diplomatic passport: According to Rai News 24, Italian police spokesman Lt. Colonel Domenico Grimaldi accused the Saudi legation in Rome of facilitating the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,1031,1099],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-house-of-saud","category-near-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}