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Saudi king dismisses top officials as it admits missing journalist was killed at consulate
The Hill ^ | 10/19/18 | JUSTIN WISE

Posted on 10/19/2018 4:08:57 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Saudi Arabia's King Salman reportedly dismissed a key royal adviser and a senior intelligence official the same day the country's state-run media admitted that journalist Jamal Khashoggi died in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

King Salman ordered for Saud al-Qahtani, an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to be removed, according to the state-run Ikhbariya television, which was reported by Bloomberg News.

The news came as reports surfaced that the Saudis acknowledged that Khashoggi, a U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist, died after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.

The Saudi government stated that 18 Saudi nationals have been arrested and are being interrogated in connection with the case, according to a press release translated by The New York Times.

A public prosecutor has said that Khashoggi died after a fight broke out in the consulate.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemite; holywar; khashoggi; kingsalman; mbs; muslimbrotherhood; saudiarabia
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To: yesthatjallen

Somebody had to fall on their sword, and it wasn’t going to be the King or number one prince.


21 posted on 10/19/2018 4:59:28 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

I.
Don’t.
Care.

We don’t lie to the Saudis?

Not our concern.


22 posted on 10/19/2018 5:03:08 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Ditto.

He was not a citizen of our country.
The people who did it are not citizens of our country.


23 posted on 10/19/2018 5:06:16 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: LS

What I care about is who’s the treasonous sack of s*** that hired a known jihadiscum at that newspaper?


24 posted on 10/19/2018 5:06:39 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

So what??

Who cares


25 posted on 10/19/2018 5:10:33 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Nifster

BAE set to brave controversy by attending Saudi Arabia event
Financial Times-17 Oct. 2018

16 Oct: BBC: Simon Jack: BAE Systems will go to the Saudi ball
BAE Systems is one UK firm that will definitely not pull out of next week’s business conclave in Saudi Arabia.
The Kingdom bought a sixth of everything the UK defence contractor sold last year and BAE employs 6,000 people on the ground there...

To be fair to BAE, selling military hardware is not a normal business. It is conducted with the express approval of the UK government...

The UK wants to have a national aerospace contractor like BAE - both for national security reasons and for the nearly 40,000 high-skilled, high-paying UK jobs it creates...
The infamous 1980s al-Yamamah series of arms sales to the Kingdom was described at the time by the Financial Times as the “biggest sale of anything by the UK to anyone”...
It was also well known that the French defence industry was sniffing around a new mega-contract at that time...

The infamous 1980s al-Yamamah series of arms sales to the Kingdom was described at the time by the Financial Times as the “biggest sale of anything by the UK to anyone”...
It was also well known that the French defence industry was sniffing around a new mega-contract at that time...

Therein lies the basis of much of the developed world’s arms industry approach to the vexed question of selling weapons to other countries.
If we don’t sell them, someone else will.
Donald Trump underlined that point this week...
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45882301


26 posted on 10/19/2018 5:15:15 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Diogenesis

Excusing an atrocity doesn’t play well with us little folk.


27 posted on 10/19/2018 5:18:58 PM PDT by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: Trumpisourlastchance

They may not have known... rogue actors don’t mean the the folks in power knew. Remember the House of Saud has thousands of members, and all sorts of factions. One of them could have ordered this and the King and his people not know.

Just like Trump doesn’t know what every directive Comey gave agents...


28 posted on 10/19/2018 5:21:02 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: Diogenesis
'Cause it can make PJDT look bad.

If he was a terrorist / supporter and buddy buddy with OBL how the hell did he get a green card or even a visa?

29 posted on 10/19/2018 5:21:07 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: grania

Given 911 was a real Atrocity by al Qaeda, and Osama
sent the details of his forming al Qaeda
to this pseudo-”journalist”, his BF, FIRST,
reconsider or reconcile your statement with the facts.


30 posted on 10/19/2018 5:23:20 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: yesthatjallen

THIS COCKROACH WAS NOT A JOURNALIST !!!!

HE WAS A MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD OPERATIVE !!!

This is complete bullshit !!!

Who in their right mind goes into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey after talking shit about the would-be-king in a kingdom not exactly well known for human rights.

I don’t give a damned about this POS, and he got what he deserved for being stupid.


31 posted on 10/19/2018 5:29:51 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: ALX

We don’t even know yet if this guy was really wacked!!


32 posted on 10/19/2018 5:42:51 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: ALX

We don’t even know yet if this guy was really wacked!!


33 posted on 10/19/2018 5:42:51 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: a fool in paradise
Meanwhile the plot to kill Momar Gaddafi was run from our Libyan embassy

OT, but where's Gaddafi's gold?

34 posted on 10/19/2018 5:57:47 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: MAGAthon

And Khashoggi was mussie brotherhood and an Erdogan fan

I don’t care. He was not a US citizen. He supported terrorists


35 posted on 10/19/2018 5:59:16 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Diogenesis

The facts would be that all or almost all of the 911 terrorists were Saudi nationals. So we invaded everyone but Saudi Arabia. If what you state is true, he belonged in Guantanamo, not slaughtered in an Embassy.


36 posted on 10/19/2018 6:02:30 PM PDT by grania ("You don't give power to an angry left wing mob")
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To: LucyT

37 posted on 10/19/2018 6:13:14 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: grania

Pakistan gave Osama Bin Laden safe harbor for years. Perhaps we should be at war against Pakistan.


38 posted on 10/19/2018 6:14:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: yesthatjallen

Nineteen trials from Sunday through Thursday with nineteen executions on Friday.

In Saudi Arabia the crime is not murdering a scumbag who is aligned with Hamas, the Houthis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Iran. The crime is being so stupid as to have been caught which has embarrassed the 100,000 or so member Royal Family.


39 posted on 10/19/2018 6:24:59 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: Coronal

One of whom just happened to have a bone saw with him.

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I thought everyone carried a bonesaw? And duct tape, plastic sheet and towels. I mean, doesn’t everyone?


40 posted on 10/19/2018 6:49:10 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (The 2016 foreign meddling came from UKistan, and is a weasel borne plague.)
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