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2018-10-18 Arabia

Three disappeared royal princes may have suffered same fate as Khashoggi

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-18 00:58|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Not much of a deterrent unless other people know about it.

Posted by gorb 2018-10-18 02:32|| 2018-10-18 02:32|| Front Page Top

#2 The new Saudh leader is a monster. If he can get away with this to another human being US citïzens will some day share the same fate. Satan has a plan. He is no better than ISIS.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-10-18 03:53|| 2018-10-18 03:53|| Front Page Top

#3 By the way. He just issued a threat to ANYONE who dissagrees with his extreme human rights violations and there are many Americans at his disposal in his country.

Posted by Ebbavirt Clunk4147 2018-10-18 04:00|| 2018-10-18 04:00|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Not that it makes it any better, but there's a possibility that this was a rendition gone horribly wrong. Low-level Saudi minions are about as well trained to deal with the unexpected as a brand-new Soviet 2LT - and several orders of magnitude more likely to panic. If they got this dude in there (and remember he was no angel - at the very least he was covering for the Muslim Brotherhood in his writing; at worst he was actively assisting them) planning to take him back to the Magic Kingdom and something went wrong, they lost their shiat and whacked him. Then they had to explain the corpse in the conference room to the Consul - almost certainly a member of the royal family or with connections to it - and we end up with the current mess.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2018-10-18 05:55|| 2018-10-18 05:55|| Front Page Top

#5 He is no better than ISIS.

And actually Stalin was worse than Hitler killing more of his people than the ~~Austrian~~ German, but sometimes you really don't get to choose.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-10-18 06:40|| 2018-10-18 06:40|| Front Page Top

#6 So, unless we get rid of this reformer, Americans are going to get it? WTF?

Posted by Herb McCoy 2018-10-18 07:00|| 2018-10-18 07:00|| Front Page Top

#7 The official media narrative™ is that Khashoggi was a noble journalist, just searching out the truth™ and that he was eliminated by a regime that took offense to his speaking truth to power™
The substitutes in this morality play are the courageous US media and the evil OrangeMan.
Look for hand-wringing analysis in the coming days along the lines of, "Can something like this happen here?"

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2018-10-18 07:13|| 2018-10-18 07:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Huh. Rantburg was visited by one of Ben Rhodes' Iranian lie farmers.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Erdogan had him tossed in a shredder, and the whole thing is part of Iran's war on the Saudis.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-10-18 07:34|| 2018-10-18 07:34|| Front Page Top

#9 something went wrong, they lost their shiat and whacked him.

Clearly not graduates of the School of the Americas.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-18 08:29|| 2018-10-18 08:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Nothing will bring Khashoggi or the others back. I recommend a strongly worded UN letter of condemnation and a foreign military sales surcharge to help pay for Israeli military preparedness and the US-Mexican border wall.

Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-18 08:34|| 2018-10-18 08:34|| Front Page Top

#11 From all I've read this is a black hole as far as facts and information goes with as many unanswered questions as there are about a certain email server.

I don't care about it.

Posted by AlanC 2018-10-18 09:23|| 2018-10-18 09:23|| Front Page Top

#12 There are too many people who would like to take MBS down. From the Turks to his own family, many of whom were detained, heavily fined and remain more than a little pissed. The Khasshogi thing doesn't make much sense for an individual who has been a calculating and sophisticated operator on a large stage, like him/them or not.

Personally, the first thing it brought to mind was the terminus of a royal rant centuries ago, 'Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?'. No matter how much he may have wanted Beckett disappeared I doubt the King wanted him hacked to pieces in front of an altar in his own cathedral.

Posted by Cesare 2018-10-18 09:25|| 2018-10-18 09:25|| Front Page Top

#13 President Trump succeeded in bringing the Arab world together & MbS helping in the terrorist financing department. Who is seething and ranting? And if the US intercepted communications, I imagine others with interests in the region also have intel. I hope Putin or Netanyahu can clarify the issue.

Posted by Eohippus Dribble5682 2018-10-18 10:19|| 2018-10-18 10:19|| Front Page Top

#14 Media is wringing their hands over a journalist, who was actually a spy and a rabid Muslim Brotherhood advocate and propagandist.

The timing of the hit is odd, dogpiled as it were right on top of a bunch of KSA USA dialog and weapons deals.

The media is using the death of this loathsome person to beat on Trump for holding to the arms deal and saying very diplomatically nice things about KSA.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-10-18 15:29|| 2018-10-18 15:29|| Front Page Top

#15 Maybe Khashoggi got pay checks from multiple entities; not just Washington post.

Posted by Airandee 2018-10-18 19:35|| 2018-10-18 19:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Frankly I don't give a moment's fuck about this NOT-A-CITIZEN, who's a Wash Post foreign stringer for anti-US/anti-Saudi (other than OBL) Muslim Brotherhood tool's fate. Journolists are using it to further Iran's policies. Ask how Iran treats oppo journalists? I thought not

Posted by Frank G 2018-10-18 20:27|| 2018-10-18 20:27|| Front Page Top

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