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Saudi Arabia vows to retaliate if Trump follows through on 'severe punishment' threat over Khashoggi
Fox News ^ | 14 Oct 2018 | Gregg Re

Posted on 10/14/2018 10:28:22 AM PDT by tkocur

The government of Saudi Arabia on Sunday vowed to retaliate with "greater action" if the Trump administration punishes the country for the apparently preplanned murder of a dissident earlier this month inside its Turkish Embassy.

Jamal Khashoggi, who wrote columns in the Washington Post critical of the Saudi government, entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul October 2 and disappeared. Trump has said the U.S. would be “very upset and angry” if the Saudi government was behind it and, in an interview with "60 Minutes," he clarified that there would be "severe punishment."

"The Kingdom affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether by waving economic sanctions, using political pressure, or repeating false accusations," the country said in a statement released by the Saudi Press Agency.

"The Kingdom also affirms that if it receives any action, it will respond with greater action, [and] that the Kingdom's economy has an influential and vital role in the global economy," the statement continues.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: District of Columbia; US: Florida; War on Terror
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To: tkocur

Hey Saudi’s - eat my American ass if you don’t like what our President does.

He is the greatest leader the world has seen in 2 centuries. Now down to him as your superior


21 posted on 10/14/2018 10:49:50 AM PDT by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President)
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To: Cowboy Bob

That, and force us to pump more of our own oil and say screw you guys, we’re on our own.


22 posted on 10/14/2018 10:49:51 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Lurker

We should have nuked Riyadh on 9/12/2001.
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Add Mecca and Medina to the target list.
The problem is Islam.


23 posted on 10/14/2018 10:51:00 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: tkocur

This response is not exactly a denial that they murdered him in their embassy...


24 posted on 10/14/2018 10:53:10 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: tkocur

What are they gonna do? Stop fighting our wars for us? Try another oil embargo? Now we are the largest oil producer on earth. That’s just gonna spike the oil price and we’ll get rich.
They gonna defend themselves?

Laziest, most inbred, stupid and backwards nation on earth.


25 posted on 10/14/2018 10:55:13 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Lurker
We should have nuked Riyadh on 9/12/2001.

and three other cities, two for each twin tower.

26 posted on 10/14/2018 10:57:50 AM PDT by precisionshootist
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To: precisionshootist

“and three other cities, two for each twin tower.”

And 4 for the Pentagon and half a dozen for Todd Beamer.

L


27 posted on 10/14/2018 10:59:17 AM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

They might be framed. But they are 100% a satanic and brutal medieval monarchy dictatorship. They are brutally repressive. It is likely they are only exceeded by North Korea in repression.

America is reduced in morality by every interaction we have with Saudi Arabia. Play with a turd, get crap on your fingers.

Saudi Arabia attacked us on 9/11. They have corrupted our politicians in DC to the bone. Democrats love them because they hate America and Christianity. Republicans love them because they will sell out their nation for a buck. (just another day at the office)

They might be framed, but they are no good and do not share our national interests.


28 posted on 10/14/2018 11:01:10 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: tkocur

29 posted on 10/14/2018 11:04:42 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
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To: tkocur

Saudi Arabia will stop selling Camels to the US ? LOL


30 posted on 10/14/2018 11:04:46 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Lurker

+1 .. We should have nuked Riyadh on 9/12. No invasions, no nation building. Nothing.

Issue no statements, and go on like normal. The world would have been very calm today.


31 posted on 10/14/2018 11:05:09 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: tkocur

Didn’t Canada say some about Saudi Arabia and the Saudis called a ton of their citizens home ,LOL


32 posted on 10/14/2018 11:06:46 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: tkocur

I know it is a meme/conspiracy theory, but it is obvious that nuclear power’s bad reputation is the result of active propagandizing by countries that depend on oil for export/income.

This reminds me of the now well known activity by the car companies against trolley and railroad companies.

Sugar vs. fats

More?


33 posted on 10/14/2018 11:10:17 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: CIB-173RDABN

We already are the 2nd largest oil exporter, expected to be first next year. We are already the largest producer.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-will-export-oil-most-in-world-2018-5

“The U.S. exported a record 8.3 million barrels per day (bpd) last week of crude oil and petroleum products, the government also said Wednesday. Top crude oil exporter Saudi Arabia’s, for its part, exported 9.3 million bpd in January, while Russia exported 7.4 million bpd, the bank added.”

We are expected to exceed the Saudis next year.


34 posted on 10/14/2018 11:10:49 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: tkocur

Kashoggi was no friend of the west, no matter how bad the Saudi Royals are. Kashoggi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and very close with the Islamist Erdogan.

No, I am not making any excuse for the Saudis, but at the same time I understand what they think they are up against over time in Saudi Arabia with the Muslim Brotherhood and I understand western media is wrongly portraying Kashoogi as “one of the good guys”. He wasn’t, no matter how much he cultivated that image of himself with westerners.


35 posted on 10/14/2018 11:12:32 AM PDT by Wuli (u)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Why is the deep state and enemedia pumping this story ?
Still no body or confirmation of death
All speculation
Again looks like just another attack trump ploy


36 posted on 10/14/2018 11:18:09 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Born to Conserve

“I know it is a meme/conspiracy theory, but it is obvious that nuclear power’s bad reputation is the result of active propagandizing by countries that depend on oil for export/income.”

Careful, your critical thinking skills are showing. They do attack nuclear, AND fracking, US pipelines, and our astonishing gas production. You nailed it.


37 posted on 10/14/2018 11:21:50 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Wuli

Wow...it took 35 posts for someone to get it right...

Thank you...


38 posted on 10/14/2018 11:26:16 AM PDT by Popman ("GOD´S NOT LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH US, BUT OWNERSHIP OF US")
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To: tkocur

I don’t see any reason to be upset about this.

Maybe we can send some of our media to the same embassy? Starting with jim acosta, gaychel madcow, cwhizz matthews, don lemmon, jake tapper, shemp smith, etc.


39 posted on 10/14/2018 11:26:58 AM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats... BETRAYING America since 1828.)
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To: tkocur

Oooh, how scary.

Pfffht.


40 posted on 10/14/2018 11:29:03 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Stop The Madness. Do Not Respond To Vanity Posts.)
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