Posted on 10/21/2018 2:26:16 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Nineteen days after Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, the Saudi regime has at last acknowledged the obvious, that Khashoggi is dead. After first insisting that he had left the consulate of his own accord despite video evidence to the contrary, and then slamming the allegations of his murder as “baseless” and threatening oil sanctions against those claiming otherwise, the kingdom has finally settled on its official story: Khashoggi was inadvertently killed inside the consulate during a fistfight that just happened to break out in the midst of an otherwise standard meeting with Saudi intelligence officials. The regime has made a show of dismissing and arresting several officials it says were rogues, and attributes responsibility for the killing to them only.
As alibis go, this barely qualifies. It is a wildly implausible story clearly designed to absolve Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman of responsibility of the murder and therefore leave open the way for continued close relations with the United States. President Trump and Secretary of State Pompeo seem inclined to suspend disbelief, which would be a serious mistake. The situation demands a tougher, less credulous approach.
The Saudi explanation has changed enough times to give the impression that the kingdom was trying on different hats to see which might fit. There is convincing evidence that Khashoggi’s killing was the result of a premeditated operation carried out with bin Salman’s support. Turkish intelligence has alluded to a recording of the killing not released to the public, but thanks to video surveillance, the world knows for certain that a group of Saudi musclemen flew into Istanbul and entered the consulate hours before Khashoggi arrived.
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It’s none of our biz.
Our guys getting whacked in Bengazi? THAT is our biz.
And our people getting killed here in the US by illegals.
Don’t believe the National Review.
I don’t believe anybody on this one.
And I don’t care about it either.
We know they are lying, but what else is new?
The saud regime should have no more immediately after 9/11/01.
journalists get hysterical for weeks whenever it’s a journalist that buys it. but not so much when anyone else buys it.
The Turks are lying through their teeth.
The Saudis are lying through their teeth.
And our own media is lying through their teeth.
I have no idea what the truth is, about any of this, except that nobody, on any side, gives a damn about the truth.
Don’t believe the National Review lies.
The only thing that matters is stable oil prices. If not, things get even more chaotic.
An enemy of the Saudi people died
He was a casualty of war as it exists today
I don’t. But I don’t believe the big media lies that he was a humble journalist or “democracy advocate” either. Khashoggi was up to his keffiyeh in Muslim Brotherhood ties.
Concern over Jamal Khashoggi is unfounded. While certainly no fan of Saudi Arabia, they can be useful to us in that region. Jamal Khashoggi knew the risks and he took them anyway. I still think a more important argument is that Saudi Arabia pay for the deaths of 911 victims. Obama was never concerned about that, and the press could care less as well.
300 journalist whacked in Turkey and the MSM
says nothing...
but an Osama- al Qaeda spokesman gets justice, and
they make him into their hero.
You are living in a bygone era and your thoughts are obsolete
What matters is winning the war with Iran.
What war with Iran?
I don’t believe anything the saudis say. He’s just another dead saudi to me - and I say hurrah to that.
I know what I need to know and it that it was a bout the religion of piece.
Neocons.
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