Posted on 10/14/2018 12:24:49 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The Turkish newspaper Sabah has revealed that the journalist Jamal Khasshogi, who was murdered in Istanbul, had entered the Saudi consulate with an Apple iWatch smartwatch that documented his interrogation and murder.
According to the report, Khasshogi first approached the consul's room and was then dragged by two senior intelligence officers to a second room where he was interrogated and tortured until he was murdered.
On the recordings are shouts of Khasshogi and the security men. He was then dragged into a third room at the consulate, where his body was dismembered.
According to the report, the Saudis realized that he had recorded only at a later stage and managed to erase only some of the files. His phone remained with his fiancee, and she transferred the phone to the Turkish security forces, who reportedly managed to recover the files and listen to the recordings.
The Saudi crown prince continues to claim that his country is not involved in the disappearance of Khashoggi, who the prince claims entered the consulate building on Tuesday and left 20 minutes to an hour later.
US President Donald Trump made it clear in an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" program that if Saudi Arabia was indeed responsible for the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, it would be "severely punished." ....
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
“severely punished” better godam mean something very, very bad.
None of our business.
This guys is a Saudi citizen, right? When you say “very, very bad” punishment is needed are you prepared to go as far as, say, war? Over a foreign journalist? We didn’t do that for Daniel Pearl who was a US citizen.
Khashoggi was anti-American, anti-Israel, anti-Jew, anti-Christian and anti-freedom. I don’t condone his killing but he played in a rough neighborhood and picked the wrong gang to join in the game of life.
Covert operations are often the people’s business, such as the illegal attempt to influence the election in 2016 and undermine the transition and administration afterwards.
So is foreign policy, though not always. Confidential conversations between heads of states are not anyone’s business. Actions taken are. If and when he punishes the Saudis for the alleged murder of a WaPo journalist, it will have to be in a public manner.
Over an audio recording of Arabs screaming at each other?
I agree. Swim with sharks and you get bit.
Daniel Pearl was killed by terrorists, against whom the US was already at war. Kashoggi was in Istanbul working for an American news organization. No, it would not be right to go to war over that. But sanctions of some sort have been imposed on Russia for poisoning a defector and his daughter in England. Sanctions can be imposed on the KSA for murdering a journalist in Instanbul.
Over an audio recording of Arabs screaming at each other?
There are no visuals, right?
Maybe old “Innocence of Muslims” director of Benghazi video fame was too busy to direct this production?
It’s up to the CIA to investigate the recording. If they can take a break from promoting the Russia Russia Russia narrative to salvage the intelligence community’s reputation, it might be in their organizational interests to do so objectively.
The State Department has been sucking up to the KSA for generations. So has the CIA. Just try to get custody of your kids if your hubby runs off to the KSA, and you’ll know what I mean. So the KSA has uppance that it would be wonderful to make come. And this recording is solid evidence, whatever it actually signifies.
Has Iran returned our retired FBI guy they abducted off that island yet? The former FBI guy who was looking into Hezbollah cigarette smuggling and who just happened to run into a black American-born guy right before his disappearance, a guy who had been working for years as a “journalism exec” for Iran TV?
You know it all comes down to helping Iran, particularly when Isikoff and Klaidman are involved in pushing the Khashoggi story.
They just revealed their source, and it’s not a good one.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3696414/posts
There is something fishy about this entire story...
If they killed and dismembered him,,,why would the Turks get his watch...that makes no sense at all.
I have to call BS on this story until they explain how they got the watch off of a dismembered body, presumably, shipped out of the consulate office.
Since these two extinguished gentlemen of the forked estate are involved, it pays to be skeptical. But that doesn’t mean ignoring evidence when it’s available. Audio is audio. It could mean something, or not.
Someone pointed out that Smart watches don’t do video. The guy that is feeding journalists all this info is fishy, and innocent until proven guilty. Just because someone wrote it doesn’t make it true.
Frankly, I don’t care very much. We’ve known the Saudis weren’t choir boys. So what? Look at everybody else in the region. They’re a strategically important ally. I’m quite prepared to look the other way while they get on with doing what needs doing to keep a lid on things.
Who possesses the watch is irrelevant.
What matters is what the watch managed to transmit to the Cloud before it became irrelevant.
Reread the story. His watch was linked to his iPhone and his fiancée had the phone not the watch.
Wasn’t he also Muslim Brotherhood??
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