Interesting thread here:
Patrick Poole
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Holy $&#%! **Khaled Saffuri** is the source for these Jamal Khashoggi stories? Khaled Saffuri, longtime aide to US al-Qaeda fundraiser Abdurahman Alamoudi (currently in federal prison) and friend of convicted/deported Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Sami al-Arian??
9:13 AM - 12 Oct 2018
https://twitter.com/pspoole/status/1050781389489152000
The Arabs of Arabia have been masters at one thing - selling myths about themselves to western diplomatic circles and getting many of those westerners to believe those myths. In some passages of the Quran it is not immoral or sacrelgious or blasphemous to purposely lie when it is believed to advance Islam. It fact, it is quite moral and in keeping with the Quran - accoding to some passages - to lie, if it is believed to advance Islam.
Lots of supporting tweets seem to have been deleted by of course @jackhole.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1050872587486720000.html
As Wictor was saying, this was an attempt to frame the Saudis. Guy connected to an AQ terrorist who attempted to ASSASSINATE Mohommad Bin Salman is the *source* for these Kashoggi stories.
If this had been known *from the beginning* we wouldnt have gotte 3 days of media hysteria over an attempt to frame Mohmmad Bin Salman and Saudi Arabia for Kashoggis disappearance.
The medias MAIN SOURCE for these stories about the disappearance of Khashoggi is an underling of the Al Queda guy that tried to ASSASSINATE the Saudis Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman a few years ago.
The media has been HIDING this until now....
Thomas Wictor said when the story broke this was a set up of the Saudis and hes been proven right again.
https://gab.ai/Thomas_Wictor/posts/38389406
(Wictors gab thread is WELL worth reading.)
Isikoff and other reporters pushing this story knew if they told everybody it was Saffuri who was their source, people would instantly see his terrorist ties to both Hamas and AQ.
SO TO SUM UP HOW WE GOT HERE: Political partisans disguised as reporters found a known Al Qaeda/Hamas operative & used him as source to float rumors Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman had Khashoggi killed cuz Trumps rhetoric made MbS think hed get away with it.
This was an attempt at smearing both the Saudis, Mohammad Bin Salman, and President Trump. Likely in the hopes of getting the arms deal between the USA & SA called off.
If so, Trump sniffed this out and now they are gonna wish they hadnt tried this.
This was a coordinated rollout of a fake narrative to put pressure on Trump to cancel the Saudi arms deal.
https://gab.ai/Thomas_Wictor/posts/38389406 https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1050872587486720000 STEALTH JEFF @drawandstrike As Wictor was saying, this was an attempt to frame the Saudis. Guy connected to an AQ terrorist who attempted to ASSASSINATE Mohommad Bin Salman is the *source* for these Kashoggi stories.