Posted on 10/19/2018 2:56:05 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Almost everything we know about what actually happened in the Saudi Consulate comes from the Turks. Make that everything we know. And make that what we think we know. One thing is certain at this point. The US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Kashoggi is dead. The rest, down to how long it took for the Saudi executioners to kill him – seven minutes – we have from Turkish sources. Now ask yourself – why are the Turks so determined to be so informative? The regime in Ankara is hardly a champion of human rights for journalists. Hardly a paragon of selfless transparency in its own conduct toward dissidents.
It's endlessly astonishing how the global news media can generate such a mountain of noise over a particular topic without once asking the most obvious, the most germane questions. What are the Turks up to? What's the game here? They've managed to endure years of foreign nationals being executed on Turkish soil – from Chechen resistance fighters to Syrian opposition activists – without going soft and raising a rucus. Suddenly they care about a Saudi activist disappearing inside what is effectively Saudi territory under international law. Of course they should be outraged. But for them to develop a sensitive heart suddenly over this one outrage suggests other calculations afoot.
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Starting to look that way - they probably played the faux reporter too in order to make him at least seem enough of a threat to Saudi that killing him was a viable option...
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Almost everything we know about what actually happened in the Saudi Consulate comes from the Turks. Make that everything we know. And make that what we think we know... Now ask yourself – why are the Turks so determined to be so informative? The regime in Ankara is hardly a champion of human rights for journalists.
And urinalists are not exactly champions of human rights, either, for that matter, even if one assumes they're human.
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