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| Revealed: Khashoggi Was a Qatari Asset |
| 2018-12-27 |
| [Clarion Project] It has now emerged the Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered at the hands of the Saudis, was a Qatari asset, most likely being paid and handled by Maggie Mitchell Salem, an executive at the Qatar Foundation International. In the days following the disappearance of Khashoggi, the Saudi native was billed as an unflinching proponent of democracy, a Washington Post journalist who ‐ to his own peril ‐ was exposing the terrible human rights abuses by the government of his native country. While this narrative was being spun by Saudi rivals Turkey and Qatar (which we now know was working behind the scenes in the days after the murder), the Obama-era "echo chamber" was being revved up by them to undermine the stability of the Saudi government itself. That "echo chamber," dubbed as such by Obama’s National Security Council Communications Director Ben Rhodes, was famously exploited by Rhodes to support both Obama’s engagement with the Iranians (culminating in the controversial Iran nuclear deal) as well as Obama’s shift towards the Sunni Islamists (including Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood) and away from America’s former Sunni allies (most prominently, Saudi Arabia). "When complete, the successful information operation would depict Khashoggi a heroic martyr to independent journalism and freedom, while Saudi Arabia would be the embodiment of evil and callousness," writes the Security Studies Group (SSG), an Australian think tank, which adds, "It is clear now that, not only was Khashoggi transmogrified in death into a major front in Qatar’s war on its Gulf neighbors; in life, he was Qatar’s asset in that war, as well." As SSG notes, "American elites and policymakers have been soft targets for Qatari influence and information operations. Information operations use media and traditional tools of public relations to advance policy interests through narratives." |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #1 In June 2017 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and the UAE cut ties with Qatar and have helped block its presence internationally. They have also blocked much of the activity of certain notorious Qatar charities, in particular the Qatar Charity, one of the Arab World's largest. Qatar Charity was used to funnel funds to forces arrayed against Muamar Qadafi in Libya. It is still questionable whether Clinton and Obama were tools of Qatar's al=Thani ruling family, or vice versa. |
| Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2018-12-27 07:31 |