spooky British journo who knows Khashoggi well:
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
As someone who spent three decades working closely with intelligence services in the Arab world and the West, the Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi knew he was taking a huge risk in entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week to try to obtain a document certifying he had divorced his ex-wife...
He had become the darling of western commentators on the Middle East. With almost two million Twitter followers, he was the most famous political pundit in the Arab world and a regular guest on the major TV news networks in Britain and the United States...
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/
There was nothing inadvertent about the rise of political Islamicism being a product of Arab spring. The goal of launching Arab Spring was to put Muslim Brotherhood groups in control from Libya to the KSA. The ostensible idea was a pseudo-Califate could be assembled which would calm the Sunni masses down and stabilize the Near East after getting rid of all the ‘heretical sects and regimes’. Then the US and the Caliphate could squeeze Israel into a two state solution with pre-1967 borders and a guarantee to work for ‘resettlement of displace Paliwogs ‘ back in Israel. For a man whose law school was paid for by a leading Islamacist Saudi prince and a CIA director who is either a Wahhabi fellow traveler or a cryto-Muslim it all fit perfectly.