I don’t trust Turkey nor Saudi Arabia, but it just seems stupid to blatantly send a bunch of men in, torture and kill the guy, and send him out in boxes.
Now supposedly it was all captured on an iwatch.
The journalists is a Muslim Brotherhood leader, and when he pushes for democracy, he means Islamic rule.
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Let this sink in: Isikoff and Klaidman’s source for their stories on Mohammad Bin Salman’s state of mind and his various nefarious plots against journalists is… a guy who’s been investigated for terrorism ties, and on top of that has connections to an al-Qaeda affiliated terrorism financier who is currently in federal prison for participating in a plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince.
Can I be forgiven for being a bit, shall we say, skeptical that Khaled Saffuri has keen insight into the mind and plans of Bin Salman? When it comes to journalists, or just about anything else?
So for a week reporters breathlessly shopping this narrative about Bin Salman’s role in Khashoggi’s disappearance kept one of their main sources—if not the main source—under wraps and carefully hidden from scrutiny.
If Saffuri’s identity had been known from the beginning we wouldn’t have gotten days of media hysteria over an attempt to frame Mohmmad Bin Salman and Saudi Arabia for Kashoggi’s disappearance.
Isikoff and other reporters pushing this story likely knew if they told everybody Saffuri was a big source of this “inside info” detailing this supposed Saudi plot against Khashoggi, people would have instantly seen his rumored terrorist ties to both Hamas and al-Qaeda and the very real direct tie he has to an imprisoned terrorist plotter against the Saudi kingdom.
So why did Isikoff and Klaidman suddenly decided to spill the beans about the identity of their source? I believe that’s because Trump has investigators in Turkey digging into what’s really going on, and they knew it was going to come out anyway. But at least they got their fun week of international media hysteria before Saffuri’s cover was blown.
So, to sum up how we got here: Political partisans disguised as “reporters” found an al-Qaeda and Hamas connected person and used him as a source to float rumors Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman had Khashoggi killed because Trump’s rhetoric made Bin Salman think he’d get away with it.
This is looking increasingly like an attempt at smearing the Saudis, Mohammad Bin Salman, and President Trump. Likely in the hopes of getting the arms deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia called off. If so, it is going to backfire massively on the people who rushed to judgment.
Apple has refuted that, said they don't have that capability.