Posted on 10/22/2018 5:43:51 AM PDT by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON Members of Congress from both parties made clear on Sunday that they wanted to see Saudi Arabia punished for the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as President Trump shifted his tone again on the issue and joined the lawmakers in expressing doubt about the Saudi governments account of the death.
Obviously, theres been deception and theres been lies, Mr. Trump said in a telephone interview late Saturday with The Washington Post. Their stories are all over the place.
The presidents response to the Saudi accounts has likewise changed from day to day. Speaking to The New York Times on Thursday, Mr. Trump said he was confident in the intelligence reports about the episode, which paint a strong, if circumstantial, case that Mr. Khashoggis killing was ordered by the Saudi royal court.
On Friday evening, after the Saudis, more than two weeks after Mr. Khashoggis death, said he had been accidentally killed during a fistfight with Saudi operatives in Istanbul, Mr. Trump was asked whether he found it credible. I do, he said.
Lawmakers, several of whom had been briefed on the American intelligence, immediately rejected the Saudi account as lacking credibility. Allies of Mr. Trump like Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Representative Peter T. King of New York expressed some of the most scathing criticism.
In his interview with The Post, Mr. Trump reiterated his view that Saudi Arabia is an important ally of the United States, and praised Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a strong leader who can keep things under check. He added, I mean that in a positive way.
Mr. Trump said he did not know if Prince Mohammed had ordered the killing of Mr. Khashoggi.
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From the Times; what can you expect?
I keep asking myself, “why would the Crown Prince be so sloppy with an execution?”
Doesn’t compute with me ...
It really doesn’t matter what the Saudi government does. If it falls the country will convulse in Muslim revolutionary madness that will make the French revolution look civilized. The end result will be decades of increased terror. We need to tread lightly and not create another situation like allowing the Shah of Iran to fall. What idiocy that was.
I’ll believe the “bipartisan chorus” when they call for punishing Iran, first.
Muslim countries killing their own citizens (who have ties to terrorists) inside other Muslim countries.
This shouldn’t even be news.
Can we think about refusing to quote the New York Slimes?
No one is listening. Fiddle harder.
The reality is that whoever controls Arabian oil must sell it at market prices or the region will starve and devolve into economic and political chaos. The US, if its leaders and politicians were not so intertwined with the Saudis should have disengaged from them shortly after 9/11. They can never be trusted. Their bribing and “favorable” business deals to politicians has resulted in the American consumer paying much higher prices for oil and an immense transfer of wealth to these vile characters. Hopefully Trump will use the opportunity to fundamentally realign US policy.
The Prince wasn’t, his in-bred minions were...
So I think that DJT should contact the Saudi King and agree on some kind of sham "punishment" that can be announced to great fanfare.
JAMAL KHASHOGGI: THE MEDIA FIGHTS FOR A MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PAL OF OSAMA BIN LADEN
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3697300/posts
Frontpage Magazine:
In high school, Jamal Khashoggi had a good friend. His name was Osama bin Laden.
We were hoping to establish an Islamic state anywhere, Khashoggi reminisced about their time together in the Muslim Brotherhood.
[snip]
Kashoggi’s family into some nasty organized crime:
“Add on that Adnon khasoggi, jamals uncle is a major smuggler smuggling everything from drugs to weapons to humans especially kids under 16 in harms way...” — rodguy911
rodguy911’s research:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3697300/posts?page=85#85
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Ever since Civil War, DNC = terrorists: KKK, black panthers; muslim refugees, BLM ...
The WaPo gave this Saudi activist a platform to campaign against the Saudi government. Then the Saudi Arabian government, a monarchy, reacted.
The Media are now using that reaction to attempt to get both governments to do their will.
I already posted the usual here.
The media stepped in another cow paddy.
SOP.
[Muslim countries killing their own citizens (who have ties to terrorists) inside other Muslim countries.
This shouldnt even be news.]
It is when the word “journalist” is used. This is the ONLY reason this is making news.
As usual, they are proud to be on the wrong side.
Accused Trump of launching a ‘whispering’ campaign.
Who is whispering?
Trump and Hannity are being judicious and cautious about reporting. Kicking the tires. No harm in that.
They are trying to make their scandal Trump’s scandal.
And failing as usual.
Liberals and Deep Staters are more distraught over the fate of one Muslim Brotherhood operative than with the lives
of the many thousands of American citizens brutalized, injured, raped and killed at the hands of illegal aliens.
The guy was a friend of Osama Binladdin family. Ok, he was a good friend of the Osama Binladdin family that enjoyed target practice and posing with AK-47’s and RPG’s along with the Osama Binladdin family... but he was a reporter for the post, and had a residence in the US... not a citizenship, but a US residential address, like any foreign terrorists in waiting have. But he was a reporter for the post that didn’t write much, unless being interviewed by other reporters counts.
This really has nothing to do with “the media.” One of the worst-kept secrets in Washington is that the WP is nothing more than a CIA front.
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