The Strange Case of the Undead

MOTUS A.D. ^ | 10-15-18 | MOTUS

[NOBO2012]

Things get curiouser and curiouser in the possible abduction and murder of Washington Post Muslim Brotherhood reporter. Here are a few questions I still have about the whole situation:

• Is Khashoggi really dead?

• If so, who dunnit, and if it was the Saudis, why did it require a 15 man assassin team?

• Why did the WaPo have a Muslim Brotherhood reporter on staff?

• Are we to believe our Turkish ‘allies’ or our Saudi ‘allies’?

• Who’s trying to start WWIII?

And while the answers may be interesting they won’t help us choose sides. As Spengler points out, there are no good guys in this fight and we can’t trust our “Intelligence Establishment” to sort it for us. (H/T to the Obama administration for enabling Deep State to reach this level of lack-of-confidence.) All we do know is that anyone failed-novelist-turned-Obama-foreign-affairs-advisor, Ben Rhodes, sides with is no friend of ours. So just say nyet to Turkey and Iran, and keep Saudi Arabia on a long, strong leash.

As to the demise of Khashoggi, don’t be completely surprised if he turns up undead. It’s that time of year after all.

But when it comes to picking which undead team to back, the Zombies or the Vampires, our choices are somewhat limited: do you wish to have your brains eaten or your blood sucked?

While it’s tempting to just wipe them all out we must proceed with extreme caution; this may well be a quagmire, but it’s not our quagmire.

MOTUS A.D.

[BigEdLB]

Zomillary, zomlosi, zhumumer

[Carriage Hill]

A WaPo reporter? Meh...

[MAGAthon]

meanwhile, the British press are in a cat fight. Coughlin apparently posted spooky Brit journo James Bradley’s Spectator piece on Khashoggi, which would have no doubt upset the Guardian mob. lots of stuff in the RT article:

16 Oct: Russia Today: Telegraph defence editor savaged by Owen Jones over Saudi-links, deletes Twitter account
Guardian journalist Owen Jones savaged the Telegraph’s defence editor after he went to a Saudi Arabia Embassy party at a London Museum. Con Coughlin has now deleted his Twitter account after Jones linked him to both Saudi and MI6.

Coughlin’s credibility was left in tatters after a Jones Twitter thread took aim at the journalist and his wife. The thread was instigated by Coughlin’s attendance at a party hosted by the Saudi government at the Natural History Museum, amidst allegations that Saudi agents had killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Following Khashoggi’s disappearance, Coughlin echoed the line of the Saudi government, tweeting: “Was Jamal Khasogghi a liberal or a Muslim Brotherhood lackey who reviled the West?” and linking to his article on the matter...

The Twitter thread subsequently went viral, with thousands re-tweeting and liking Jones’ posts. He was hailed by many, although one former Guardian journalist said his words would be a lot more powerful if he looked at his own employers too.

TWEET: Jonathan Cook: Good to see Owen Jones regularly criticising the corporate media. Now if he’ll carry through his own logic to conclude that the Guardian, his employer, is also part of the corporate media – and part of the problem – we’ll be making real progress...
https://www.rt.com/uk/441321-saudi-telegraph-jones-khasogghi/

11 Oct: US Spectator: What the media aren’t telling you about Jamal Khashoggi
The dissident’s fate says a lot about Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state
by John R. Bradley
In the 1970s he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, which exists to rid the Islamic world of western influence. He was a political Islamist until the end, recently praising the Muslim Brotherhood in the Washington Post. He championed the ‘moderate’ Islamist opposition in Syria, whose crimes against humanity are a matter of record. Khashoggi frequently sugarcoated his Islamist beliefs with constant references to freedom and democracy. But he never hid that he was in favour of a Muslim Brotherhood arc throughout the Middle East. His recurring plea to bin Salman in his columns was to embrace not western-style democracy, but the rise of political Islam which the Arab Spring had inadvertently given rise to. For Khashoggi, secularism was the enemy.
He had been a journalist in the 1980s and 1990s, but then became more of a player than a spectator...
The Saudis, too, may have worried that Khashoggi had become a US asset...

...Khashoggi had earlier this year established a new political party in the US called Democracy for the Arab World Now, which would support Islamist gains in democratic elections throughout the region. Bin Salman’s nightmare of a Khashoggi-led Islamist political opposition was about to become a reality...
https://spectator.us/2018/10/jamal-khashoggi/

[BigEdLB]

Did anyone think that a Turkish person convinced a zealous supporter of the Saudi Prince and some henchmen were convinced to do this on the behalf of the Crown Prince without his advance knowledge?

[null and void]

Sure. NOW this thread gets posted...

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The false-flag/rogue-operative spin is now in full play, led by CNN, which means it’s a lie.

[VTenigma]

Wapo, muslim brotherhood? He’s better off dead. Someone did us a favor. I don’t care who it was.

P.S. Who’s been pushing for WWIII since before the 2016 election? Oh, that’s right, Obama, Hillary, and their minions. Do the math. And Hey Saudi Arabia, don’t feed the scum in the Demonicrat party, they will only turn around and bite you in the ass, just sayin’.

[PIF]

Correction
Why did the WaPo have a Muslim Brotherhood propagandist on staff?

[Redwood71]

Don’t worry, the deceased is already registered to vote in Illinois, Ohio, Florida, the entire west coast, and Hawaii. And will come back to life to do so in 2020. Plus will continue to do so until the ice in hell make our feet cold without challenge. Just like a bad penny.....

rwood

[blueplum]

kind of interesting how people want to condemn Saudi as a nation. If a Moroccan stabs 20 people in Paris, do we call the Moroccan govt to task? or do we focus on the specific Moroccan? Maybe somebody is out to embarrass the royal family - who not that long ago locked up half the princes and merchants and seized at least some portion of their assets. Not everyone likes reform, when they made so much money unreformed. And surely America is not the only one with a problem with their ‘deep state.’ The Prince will roll out the cranes and in a week or so, a baker’s dozen of strange fruit will be hanging from their hooks, crowds will jeer, and the world turns again.