Jamal Khashoggi

[buckshot]

Had a quick look and it seems they have triggered the Act by writing to Trump insisting he take action. Trump has 120 days to act otherwise Congress will take action. This happened with the last round of Russian sanctions which Trump moaned about but couldn’t stop it happening.

Dumb Donald considers the press to be his enemy. Meanwhile the Saudis say nice things about him.

Wanna guess who he's going to side with?

Plus, I think it's not as objectionable to sleep with your daughter in Saudi Arabia so they have that going for them too.

 

[mat]

It reminds me of the West Midlands Police Serious Crimes Squad.

 

[west didsblue]

Fucking Saudi. Worst country and worst regime on the planet.

In terms of regimes they’re certainly in the bottom 5 along with regimes led by other despots admired by Trump like Russia, North Korea and the Philippines.
There are two big problems though. If the regime became more liberal, the country would become an anti-western theocracy in a heartbeat which would threaten oil supplies and the world economy. The second problem is that they have shit loads of money which they spend in western countries keeping thousands employed. So whatever they do, the major powers in the west may huff and puff but ultimately they’ll get away with it.

 

[2sheikhs]

I’m surprised,to be honest,with the Turks.
I thought that they were moving closer to Saudi with regards to how erdogan is turning turkey into a non secular dictatorship.
Can anyone explain what advantage they’d gain by their belligerence towards the Saudis?

 

[mat]

I’m surprised,to be honest,with the Turks.
I thought that they were moving closer to Saudi with regards to how erdogan is turning turkey into a non secular dictatorship.
Can anyone explain what advantage they’d gain by their belligerence towards the Saudis?

Aren't the Turks in cahoots with the Iranians? Could explain some of their actions.

 

[2sheikhs]

Aren't the Turks in cahoots with the Iranians? Could explain some of their actions.

The Iranians??
Can’t see that mate. The Iranians are allied with Russia, Assad and the Kurds.(as far as I’m aware)

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Some really unpleasant countries in this world. The Saudis knocking off critics in their own consulate, the Russians recklessly using banned chemical weapons in other nation states and the Chinese kidnapping the head of Interpol. And that's before we get to the likes of Assads Syria.

 

[Dubai Blue]

Yet it looked to me like the Saudis have had the place virtually bleached clean before the Turkish investigators were allowed in.
Yeah, ‘course is was a rogue.

And had all the walls repainted. What a coincidence!

 

[Blue Hefner]

The Saudis are about to announce they killed them due an "interrogation that went wrong" according to CNN

I've heard better fibs from Mourinho.

So it wasn’t those pesky ‘rouge killers’ that the Leader Of The Free World suggested it might be. Strange that......

 

[2sheikhs]

So it wasn’t those pesky ‘rouge killers’ that the Leader Of The Free World suggested it might be. Strange that......

I think if the Saudis wanted to blame the ghost of Ken Dodd for it he’d go along with that.