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2018-10-10 The Grand Turk

Photo surfaces of doomed reporter walking into Saudi Consulate

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Posted by Fred 2018-10-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
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#1 Plausible hypothesis 1:
The Saudis brutally slaughtered a prominent dissident in a cleverly ostentatious and plausibly deniable way in order to deter any uppity subjects.

Plausible hypothesis 2:
The Turks disappeared a prominent Saudi dissident to create the impression that hypothesis 1 was true.

They did this at the behest of the Iran-Qatar-Muslim Brotherhood-Russia alliance in order to weaken the Saudi backed side in Yemen specifically and to drive a wedge between the West and the Saudis.

Which hypothesis is more likely to be true?

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-10-10 07:41|| 2018-10-10 07:41|| Front Page Top

#2 It shouldn't be too hard to coordinate CCTV footage, shouldn't it?

Posted by gorb 2018-10-10 08:08|| 2018-10-10 08:08|| Front Page Top

#3 It shouldn't be too hard to coordinate CCTV footage, shouldn't it?

That video date is under the control of rival state actors who can be assumed to prioritize their political agenda over the search for the truth.

They might, at some point, release rival video sequences pretending to show the same place at the same time showing mutually contradictory content.

All that would prove is that at least one party is lying. Unless the forger(s) made glaring technical mistakes it would be impossible to ascertain which if any is genuine.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-10-10 09:32|| 2018-10-10 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 video ~~date~~ data including metadata like timestamps

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2018-10-10 09:34|| 2018-10-10 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Saudi officials have relayed to Ankara that they were "open to cooperation" and would allow the consulate to be searched.

1. Clearly the guy is no longer there.
2. SA will be surrendering the sovereignty of their embassy to the Turks.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-10-10 09:35|| 2018-10-10 09:35|| Front Page Top

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