Saudi Arabia vows to retaliate if Trump follows through on 'severe punishment' threat over Khashoggi

Fox News ^ | 14 Oct 2018 | Gregg Re

[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.

[Nifster]

Sure thing...keep your oil...your only fungible product. Send home our boys and ALL of our military equipment. Fight the mussie brotherhood on your own....and Iran too

[2CAVTrooper]

I’ve said it a lot since 9/11 that the whole war on terror could have ended within 30 minutes of the second tower being hit.

Riyadh
Mecca
Medina
Qom
Tora Bora
Khandahar
Bandar Abbas
Tehran
Damascus
Baghdad
Islamabad

And about a dozen others should have disappeared under a bright flash followed by mushroom clouds.

Sadly, we had a wimp in the White House that bought into the lie that islam is a religion of peace.

[Wuli]

It surprises me sometimes when Conservatives forget (1) that the Left is in charge of the media views on foreign policy, and (2) with so few white hats in the Middle East, a Middle East opponent of someone else in the Middle East is not necessarily our friend.

No, I do not not believe the Saudis have ever been our true friends, no matter how much our foreign policy establishment has sucked up Saudi myths aboout themselves and portrayed US as their friends.

Well, the new Middle East masters at creating myths about themselves are Middle East members of the Muslim Brotherhood - like Kashoogi, pretending to be all for “democratic” solutions for the Middle East. It is a long range well orchestrated well-funded agenda of “peaceful subversion” all across the west. And, apparently the Saudis are onto it.

[piytar]

(1) "In truth, Khashoggi never had much time for western-style pluralistic democracy. 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."

See here (Spectator)

(2) The US is close to self-sufficient for oil now. Thank you fracking. That means the Saudis don't have much of a club to use.

(3) I smell a bunch of grandstanding.

[BeauBo]

The same guy who broke this “story” - Michael Isikoff _ is the same guy who broke the Trump dossier “story”.

Smells fishy - like someone wants to create a wedge in the US Saudi relationship, and a messy fight/foreign policy disaster going into the midterms.

Probably best not to listen to what the media says that other people said, but rather have the White House on the phone to Riyadh.

And if the Saudis did kill Khashoggi, they did us a favor. We are spending money and have our guys out there everyday trying to kill radical islamist extremists, and Khashoggi is/was one of the big fish.

[Sirius Lee]

SA IS BEING FRAMED

I would say that those who are protecting SA, much like those who are cheerleading sessions, are deep state trolls.

We should have nuked the saudis on 9/12, but, deep state bush and his muzzle loving deep state globalists...

[libh8er]

I’m hoping the Washington Post can send Jennifer Rubin over to the Saudi consulate in a Turkey next.

Actually there's a whole list of journalists I wish would visit the Saudi embassy in Turkey. And no one should be let out until a party of 15 or 20 people arrive in Istanbul on a private jet and go in to welcome them.

[Dogbert41]

If it’s true that the “Journalist” was Muslim Brotherhood, then we should avoid by all means getting in the way of the Saudies’ purge.

[elcid1970]

Hope PDJT gets the real scoop before he acts.

[marron]

One thing that is plain is that whoever is behind the murder wanted this to be public and in-your-face.

The Saudis have no compunction about killing a political enemy, but usuallly its something deniable, a car wreck, or something. Even in Turkey they could have ordered a hit that would have been deniable even if everyone knew they were behind it.

In this case, whoever it was wanted it to be known that it was them. So we only have to determine if it was the Crown Prince, or one of his enemies. Having done it publicly, they are practically demanding that we take some action in response. The question is, why?

[Wilderness Conservative]

15 of the 19 tells me all I need to know about SA. We laid down with that dog and woke up with mange.

[bgill]

He was likely Arkancided via Saudi. Hellary will do anything to take down Trump and if she can get him into a war, then so much the better for her side.

We don’t need to be involved in this AT ALL. He wasn’t an American and was muslim brotherhood. It’s no concern of ours, especially to get into major conflict over.

[bgill]

Hellary is less a friend than SA.

[bgill]

Trump got the pastor back from Turkey. Trump claims it had nothing to do with the muzzy journalist but they wouldn’t have BAM! turned him over so quickly otherwise. Now, what can we get SA to give up? It doesn’t matter the journalist is nothing to the USA but it makes the Saudis look bad on the world stage. Art of the deal. Strike while the iron is hot. Get it while you can.

[StormEye]

I'm trying to figure out why this Khashoggi/Saudi consulate
incident is America's business. Khashoggi was
not an American citizen. He is a citizen of Saudi
Arabia. The incident occurred in a foreign country,
and in a foreign consulate.
I understand he had a green card to work
in America. But that doesn't mean he is entitled to the
protections and rights of an American citizen while abroad.

Khashoggi was an enemy of America, Christianity and the
Western World in general. It's not in America's interest to
to involve itself in this affair other than for purely humanitarian reasons.

Inquiries should be made to the Saudis concerning Khashoggi's
location and well being, but threatening the Saudis
over this is not unnecessary.

[ExGeeEye]

I personally am not at all unhappy of the popularization of the private automobile over trolleys and trains.

[Texas Fossil]

Agree. I doubt SA did this. Turkey? Or their Islamist Jihadi Terrorists? Very possibly. But they would not like to admit it.

Israel, SA and the US is an unusual alliance. The Islamist see it as a threat.

[DesertRhino]

Lol, freakin hilarious. We DO need all those reporters to go to the Saudi embassy to find out what happened.

[Eternal_Bear]

The Saudis have spent a hundred billion dollars exporting their fanatical-terrorist version of islam all over the world. Their jihadi mercs here are telling us that they are such wonderful allies. The truth is that the world would be better off without them.

[bert]

drivel

balderdascious drivel