Posted on 10/19/2018 2:28:02 PM PDT by detective
Since the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappeared over two weeks ago, details from the police investigation, including gory descriptions of audio recordings that reveal he was killed in Tarantino-like fashion, have been leaked, drip by drip, to keep the world suspended as the mystery unfolds.
The calculated media strategy has proved remarkably effective for the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, ensuring that the case remains front-page news around the world.
But it has also served a deeper agenda — to push the United States to pressure Saudi Arabia — while shielding the government behind the news media to avoid an open and potentially damaging diplomatic rupture with the Saudis.
Sign Up For the Morning Briefing Newsletter From the start, reports of the existence of the audio recordings were brandished almost as a threat by Turkish officials and pro-government news outlets, evidently to maintain pressure on Saudi Arabia, but also on the Trump administration, to resolve the issue to Turkey’s taste.
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Re: “or the reasons for the Middle East’s seemingly irrational importance in world affairs.”
I can think of four reasons...
(1) Oil
(2) Oil revenues spent outside the Middle East.
(3) Nuclear weapons and international terrorists
(4) Pathological hatred of Jews and our ally Israel
According to a Saudi source [not a Turkish one] they say he was killed in a fight.
Helluva fight …
I speculated a while back if it were possible he had gone in o martyr himself and had a butt bomb in him...like the guy who tried to take out the Saudi intel chief a few years ago.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see what this fight was all about.
I have, too.
Thank you for your previous efforts and for your analysis of the Khashoggi issue.
“I have no trouble with there being a lack of evidence and not jumping to conclusions. I do object to the attempts to frame the guy as a terrorist who deserved to die while the issue is unsettled.”
Khashoggi was a friend and admirer of Osama Bin Ladin and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. His family was involved in arms dealing and has been accused of drug trafficking and human trafficking. Read his articles about the Muslim Brotherhood. Here is one.
100%
If what you speculate is true, and he was a martyr, why the coverup? If anything, that kind of thinking would’ve been a great way to frame him for his own murder.
I’m not buying that. If it’s the case why the heck was he residing in the US as a free man, instead of in Guantanamo?
Because the Obama Administration and lots of Muslim Brotherhood types in US government?
Just speculating.
I’ve been asking a bunch of lefties why I’m supposed to care for a couple days. Best answer so far was because he had a green card, therefore he is a “US person”. Beyond that, crickets, and that doesn’t do it for me, either.
Why are Hillary Clinton, James Comey, McCabe, Feinstein`s Chinese staffer, Bruce Ohe, Nellie Ohr, the Podestas and so many others walking around free?
While there is still an outside chance that this was a false flag performed by rouge elements in Saudi intelligence, it’s looking more and more like and unforced error by the Saudis. Unforced error in the sense the it politically hurts their key ally - Trump. The Saudi’s killing a political opponent is par for the course in that part of the world. The fact that Kashoggi was a muslim brotherhood sympathizing operative is even less reason for us to care. But it can potentially hurt POTUS politically less than 3 weeks from mid-terms.
The Left didn’t care one bit about sending billions to the Ayatollahs so they could perpetrate horrors on their own people and around the world. Remind them of that when they claim that anything short of sanctions and cancelling the arms deal is unacceptable.
Yep - I haven’t trusted Turkey for decades..wouldn’t put it past them to manufacture something to try to Turn trump off the Saudis...or cause a lot of political pressure for him to back off the current relationship he is cultivating.
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