“While this may well be so, the fact remains that Khashoggi was now a journalist working and living in the US as a permanent resident...”
Good grief man!
He was ‘Muslim Brotherhood’. They support terrorists!
His friend was bin Laden.
He’s a casualty of the war on terror.
Deep State shenanigans. President Trump needs to be careful.
remember this bizarre episode:
4 Aug 2013: Guardian: How Baroness Ashton’s gift for consensus opened the door to Mohamed Morsi
by Elizabeth Day
She has been criticised for a ‘soft power’ image, but the EU foreign policy chief was the first diplomat to convince the military in Egypt to allow access to the ex-president for ‘frank’ talks that left her hopeful for the future of democracy
Last week was no exception – in the early hours of Tuesday Ashton was taken by helicopter to Egypt, where she met the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, who is being held at a secret location.
“He was very pleased to see me,” says Ashton when we meet in a central London cafe the day after her return. The pair had a “friendly and open and very frank” conversation. She says Morsi appears to be being treated well – and his fridge is stocked with food. “He was, I thought, on good form given all the circumstances,” she says.
Ashton is the first foreign diplomat who has been allowed access to Morsi since his arrest on 3 July, when he was deposed by the head of the Egyptian army, General Abdulfattah al-Sisi, and replaced with an interim president...
Since then, the country has plunged deeper into turmoil following two turbulent years of transition to democracy...
All of which makes it fairly extraordinary that Ashton, a slight and softly spoken 57-year-old, succeeded in meeting him where many other diplomats and heads of state had failed...
She recalls having met a young woman in Benghazi, Libya, at the height of the civil war there two years ago. The woman said to her: “We want what you’ve got. You have democracy as part of your everyday life.”...
It is no coincidence, then, that one of her closest professional acquaintances is US secretary of state Hillary Clinton – another woman operating at the highest levels in a male-dominated sphere.
“She was a great ally from the very beginning,” says Ashton. “There is a bit of the ‘girls in public life’ about. There were things that we didn’t have to say between us that we understood about the way that women talk to each other.”
In turn, Clinton has said that she values being able to “blow off a little steam” with Ashton and chat about family and other subjects, as well as geopolitical problems...
Ashton refuses to be drawn on recent news reports of online harassment of feminist campaigners and journalists...
After her meeting with Morsi, Ashton has cast herself as a potential mediator in the disputes between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian military...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/04/baroness-ashton-morsi-secret-meeting