Saudi Prince Offers 100 Bentleys To Fighter Pilots Who Butchered 1,000 Yemenis

The Saudi prince, Alaweed bin Talal, has some new gifts in his bag. He is promising to give away 100 free Bentleys!

But before you queue up for one, you had better check whether you are a fighter pilot or not.

Also try to remember whether you were a bomber who were part of the force that killed almost a 1,000 people during a Saudi airstrike on Yemen.

The prince tweeted what he wanted to do to reward the fighter pilots. The translation, according to carswoops, reads: "I congratulate our wise leaders on the victory of Operation Decisive Storm and the beginning of Operation Restoring Hope. To recognize the one hundred participating Saudi pilots, I am pleased to present them with 100 Bentley cars."

Bin Talal, 60, is the grandson of Saudi Arabia's founder Ibn Saud and among the richest men in the world, with a fortune that totals $23 billion, and with investments in Apple, Time Warner and Citigroup, according to ibtimes.

His gesture roused hot opinions from both supporters as well as opponents. More than 28,000 people shared his post and over 5,000 liked it, according to bbc. While the prince was appreciated for his "generosity" many Saudis said that the pilots deserved Bentleys---and much more for their services.

On the other hand, there was a storm of protest too. "So that's what it's all about, what was it 100 or 200 lives for a Bentley, that's how cheap human life is," a Jordanian tweeted.

Hence, the prince got more flak from people who did not approve of his strange methods of celebrating. They felt that offering new Bentleys to those who tore people's lives and families wasn't really a great way of celebrating a humanitarian crisis. At least 944 people were killed and 3,487 were injured during Operation Decisive Storm, said the World Health Organization, according to carswoops. People, especially in the Middle East, were not too happy about how he was choosing to spend his money.

Why exactly was he doing it, asked the skeptical public, according to bamargera.

Currently, after the tweet was deleted, though, there has been a deafening silence.