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| German Press Reveals Saudi Spook Saga Behind Khashoggi Disappearance |
| 2018-10-15 |
| [PJ - Spengler] Germany's leading right-of-center daily Die Welt this morning reveals that Jamal Khashoggi was not a journalist, but a high-level operative for the Saudi intelligence service, an intimate of Osama bin Laden, and the nephew of the shadiest of all Arab arms dealers, the infamous Adnan Khashoggi. John Bradley reported last week in the Spectator that Khashoggi, who allegedly met a grisly end in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist organization that among other things wants to replace the Saudi monarchy with a modern Islamist totalitarian state. So much for the whining in the Establishment media about freedom of the press and protection of the rights of journalists. The presumed-dead Khashoggi was a top-level spook who swore fealty to some of the Arab world's nastiest elements, and who played a high-stakes game in Saudi spookdom. We don't know why he disappeared, but we know what we don't know. Among other things, we know that Khashoggi was bitterly opposed to the new Saudi government's rapprochement with the state of Israel. As a Muslim Brotherhood member, he backed Palestinian intransigence. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #5 #2 about Xi Jinping and Chinese reporters...the Google and Facebook crowd would be in 5th gear supporting the regime. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2018-10-15 21:28 |
| #4 I've a suspicion it's the Turks behind all this, with an alternative possibility of Iranians. I wonder if we'll ever know for sure. |
| Posted by: charger 2018-10-15 18:25 |
| #3 And why is it not OK to whack journalists? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-10-15 15:53 |
| #2 Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying it's OK to whack journalists. I'm just saying that Soddy Arabia is not the only country in the world where there is no freedom of the press. Just think what might happen to a Chinese reporter if he wrote anything the least bit embarrassing to Xi Jinping...not to mention the head of Interpol. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-10-15 12:49 |
| #1 My understanding is that Mexican journalists get whacked whenever they discover facts that are inconvenient to the ruling class. In fact, journalism is an extremely dicey business in all kinds of countries. Our media never says boo about it. But let one WAPO stringer get whacked by the Soddies and all of sudden it's a real big deal. Could it be this whole kerfuffle is merely a case of WAPO attempting to embarrass Trump? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2018-10-15 12:42 |