Saudi billionaire Prince Alaweed bin Talal promised free Bentleys to fighter pilots who took part in the Yemen bombing campaign in a Tweet he later deleted.
#Saudi pilots joined #Yemen strikes to be rewarded with #Bentley cars, accrd to now-deleted #Tweet by @Alwaleed_Talal pic.twitter.com/KWyJXC6Hvy
— Mohamed Othman (@Othmanbay) April 22, 2015
"To recognize the one hundred participating Saudi pilots I am pleased to present them with 100 Bentley cars," bin Talal said.
Alaweed bin Talal is one of the richest people in the world and owns a $300 million stake in Twitter as well as stakes in Apple, and Time Warner.
This @Alwaleed_Talal is the same guy that claimed Forbes insulted him by saying he’s worth $20bn when he is worth $39.6bn.
— Sentletse (@Sentletse) April 22, 2015
On March 26, upon a request from ousted Yemen President Hadi, Saudi Arabia and its allies launched a military operation codenamed Decisive Storm to force the Houthis to hand power back to the president.
