Jamal Khashoggi

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Dubai Blue said:
Apparently one member of the "hit squad" has already died in a car crash. I wonder how the rest of them are feeling right now!
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fucking worried I bet............ surely they must have realised the potential consequences? I'd guess another one may be involved in a fatal bone saw accident shortly?
 
Now the Saudis have told us the truth we can rest easy.

Have they released his body for autopsy or is it laying in pieces around the Bosphorous?
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
And no doubt during this fight someone accidentally grabbed hold of a bone-saw at which point Khashoggi just happened to swing a punch, slip and catch the saw with his neck. An unfortunate chain of coincidences.
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Sounds plausible. I think we've all been in similar situations at one time or another. Joking aside though, is anything likely to come of this or is it just going to be swept under the rug like most things?
 
The only thing that surprises me about this story is why it has generated so much attention. I suspect that the Saudis share the same confusion. It's not like this is the first dissident that they've murdered. Over the past 12 months alone we've seen countless princes, wealthy businessmen and officials tied to the previous king detained, tortured, disappeared and murdered. Qatar was overnight isolated and cut off from the rest of the GCC as the Saudis shamelessly tried to shift blame for the proliferation of terrorism onto them. Even the abduction of the prime minister of Lebanon didn't generate this kind of attention.

Then you have the forcible starvation and what can only be described as a genocide in Yemen, which is afforded five minutes in the news on a good month, and which generally tries to pin blame on Iran or the Houthis whilst abdicating the UK of responsibility for their role in supplying weapons. But one journalist gets murdered, albeit in a brutal fashion, and the media erupts as if they've only just realised that Saudi Arabia isn't Disney World. Never did I think that I'd hear Lindsey Graham talk in the way that he did about the Saudis, although I was settled when he subsequently returned to character in describing how awful it would be if genetic tests proved that he was Iranian.

Every good story has a comical element. The Saudis now admitting that he was killed - after "a fight broke out". The presence of an autopsy examiner, who must have carried the instruments required to torture and dismember his body, was no doubt a coincidence. The Crown Prince's bodyguard, likewise, was probably there for unrelated purposes without the knowledge or express permission of the Crown Prince. In fact, the totalitarian regime was totally unaware of the operation that occurred in the office of their Consul General. Saudi-state media were until this evening peddling a conspiracy theory that Iran and Qatar collaborated to stage a false-flag murder...

The reality though is that this will all blow over remarkably quickly. Trump will accept the Saudi version of events, regardless of how ridiculous they are, whilst announcing another Yuge! defence contract worth billions. The media will move onto some other story, probably directed at pantomime villain Iran. And the British government will shrug their shoulders and point to the jobs at stake. Jobs that only manufacture the weapons used to massacre defenceless and starving civilians in the poorest country in the Middle East. Those poor defence contractors...
 
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I'll give it a week until this is news no more. I'm (pleasantly) surprised that is't been given this much press to be honest. If this had happened in another embassy/consulate, every world leader would be puffing their chest out and posturing in public about it.
 
He must have been quite the fighter old Jamal then if one of the guys on the side that outnumbered him 18 to 1 only felt safe if he could bring his bone saw to a fist fight.....

Zero credibility in the story but as has been said Trump thinks its ok - makes you wonder what he would turn a blind eye to if some CNN anchor or reporter got beaten up........
 
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