Mutaib bin Abdullah in regard to counter-insurgency, information collection and tactical field operations. He also regarded Mutaib as a knowledgeable and highly competent commanding officer with strong professional ties to the U.S. military. It was also emphasized that Prince Mutaib developed close relations with powerful regional political and military leaders, including King Hussein and Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal. Prince Mutaib's influence seems to begin when he was a military officer in the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) as a result of being the main advisor to his father, Abdullah, commander of the SANG. During his post in the SANG under King Abdullah's
Irgendwie, irgendwo, irgendwann in Saasveld, Netherlands on 13 December 2014. In March 2016 the song was used as a base for a satirical song on the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by the TV magazine Extra 3 of the German broadcaster NDR titled "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan" ("Erdo-how, Erdo-where, Erdo-when," though the last one is also a play on words, since the German word "Wahn" means delusion or craziness). This version of the song sparked a minor diplomatic incident with Turkish government officials reportedly demanding of Germany's ambassador to Turkey that NDR desist from broadcasting it, causing a Streisand Effect where the video received