Posted on 02/09/2019 7:41:41 PM PST by blueplum
Responding to congressional efforts this week to sanction Saudi Arabia over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi and the kingdom's role in the bloody conflict in Yemen, top Saudi official Adel Al-Jubeir accused legislators of "providing ammunition to the 'death to America' crowd." "I find it very strange that members of Congress would try to curtail allies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in trying to push back against terrorist organizations supported by Iran and Hezbollah," Al-Jubeir, the Saudi minister of state for foreign affairs, told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan as part of an interview that will air Sunday. Democratic and Republican lawmakers reintroduced legislation Thursday to impose sanctions on anyone found responsible for the death of Khashoggi,...(snip)
...The "Saudi Arabia Accountability and Yemen Act of 2019" renews a similar bipartisan push that stalled in the previous Congress, after President Trump sounded his opposition and the then-Republican-led House blocked a vote on the measure....
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what makes Khashoggi so special our congress wants to pass revenge legislation?
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Well, he WAS a Muslim Brotherhood operative.
He was a sometime contributor to the WP. The US should not get involved in internal Saudi affairs. Kashoggi, contrary to some reports, was not a green card holder. He was a Saudi passport holder.
“what makes Khashoggi so special our congress wants to pass revenge legislation?
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Well, he WAS a Muslim Brotherhood operative.”
Who was likely very involved in the Qatari-backed overthrow attempt on the Prince.
The new Saudi leader is in lock step with Trump’s goal to drain the swamp. The swamp is trying to fight back.
“what makes Khashoggi so special our congress wants to pass revenge legislation?”
It might have something to do with those pallets of cash Obama sent to the Mullahs in Iran.
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He wrote to op-eds. “TWO!”
This made him a journalist?
This line of reasoning is just pathetic. Look at the hoopla over this one death.
How many people are aware that there have been 100 “true” journalist deaths in Mexico since 2000?
That works out to around five per year.
Have we heard calls for Mexico’s government to be punished? You can try to say that cartels were responsible, but my take on it is that the government was tied to these via payoffs and the like.
This one death in Turkey bothers me a little. Nothing like it’s seeming to bother the media, who didn’t say squat about the journalists dying in Mexico. Once reported, silence...
It is also stated that the guy killed in Turkey was possibly working with Iran against the Saudis. Are we going to say we’ve never taken someone out on foreign soil who was an enemy of the state?
I’m not saying I’d never join the negative choir on this one, but I have a lot of skepticism about it being all Saudi Arabia’s devious fault, with nothing on the back of the guy taken out.
with “allies” like Saudi, who needs enemies?
COULD the new prince transform Saudi into an ally?
possibly, we can hope.....
but given that dictatorship’s longstanding financing training and exporting of some of the worst, most evil Moslem teachings and terrorist murderer gangsters......
we will just have to SEE any changes for the better, before believing they can happen
@uck SA
“the President replied that there was only one concession he thought he might offer and that was to give him the six million Jews in the United States.”
--Yalta Conference, 1945 (Censored remarks)
Khashoggi is another example of whatever is bad is what the Left is for.
He's a terrorist -- the Demagogic Party supports terrorism and jihad -- and the Congress is corrupt, and on the take, and are trying to shake down the Saudis.
what makes Khashoggi so special our congress wants to pass revenge legislation?
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Well, he WAS a Muslim Brotherhood operative.
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And good friends with Osama bin Ladin
Zactly! He was a terrorist sympathizer.
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