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| Tinker, Tailor, Journalist, Spy: Jamal Khashoggi And The Story Not Being Told |
| 2018-10-19 |
| [AmericanPartisan] On 2 OCT 2018, Washington Post journalist and middle eastern political activist Jamal Khashoggi went missing after entering the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Some in the course of the last news cycle has alleged this to be a much deeper incident than it appears on the surface; a vanished journalist, murder, international intrigue, a Saudi administration in conflict with Turkey; both jockeying for power in a region bound for widespread war in the coming years. Over a year post-living in exile after being banned from the Kingdom of al Saud, Khashoggi returned to the assumed security of the nation of his familial ancestry while continuing a career of revolutionary praxis through media in the mideast region. Needing a legal certificate of divorce from the Saudi government, Khashoggi felt safe approaching the embassy- in and out, no harm, no foul. How wrong he was. Embassies and consulates are nerve centers for declared spooks of a nation. Formal intelligence officers working in a nation must be declared. Journalists, on the other hand, can get placed into positions of unique access and are often conduits for sensitive information. In any country where intelligence operations are being run (and that’s all of them) a nation’s embassy serves as the hot spot for intelligence and in turn, counterintelligence. With Khashoggi, we find an example of split loyalty divided between revolutionary Marxism and a convenient ally found in the politics of revolutionary Islam. Possibly best examining this juxtaposition is his quote from a WaPo piece in late August: |
| Posted by:newc |
| #9 "Now as a "journalist", when he is too old to fight, he continues his jihad by advocating that the Middle East needs MB to take over as the dominant political driver so they can get terrorism under control. What am I missing?" In its history the Muslim Brotherhood has spawned at least a half-dozen terrorist organizations in Egypt alone, and two in Jordan. The Ikhwan itself created in 1942-43 a terrorist element, the so called Special Section, which had within it a 'secret apparatus' whose activities remained most secret. Its reduction has never been admitted. When Morsy took over in Egypt following the Arab Spring he freed the terrorist convicts (who have since led the Islamist movement in the Sinai) and then began to prorogue the political parties. Thus, when Islamists like Khashoggi start talking 'democracy' best to check your wallet. |
| Posted by: Chereting Pelosi1889 2018-10-19 12:22 |
| #8 Why do I get the feeling that John Brennan knows something about all this? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2018-10-19 11:52 |
| #7 All it reminds me of is Dune without the worms. Never ate from a street vendor, eh? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-10-19 10:14 |
| #6 NOT a journalist. He was a Journolist - a paid provider of anti-American/anti-Saoodi ties. A MB whore. the MSM is using this to try and damage Trump and Saudis. Did anyone know/care who this mook was before this? No. I still don't |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-10-19 10:00 |
| #5 Trying real hard to care but I just can't. I think the only real reason this is still in the news is the Media claimed him as one of their own and they hope it can be used to hurt Trump (even if doing so screws up the middle east). |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-10-19 09:52 |
| #4 And why should I pay attention to the byzantine machinations of the middle east? All it reminds me of is Dune without the worms. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-10-19 09:34 |
| #3 A one vote once, and then it's iSlam forever... Or democracy is a bus when you get what you want you get off kinda guy. Wonder why he was killed, but not sad he's dead! |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2018-10-19 07:23 |
| #2 The Saudi's don't take divorce lightly! |
| Posted by: boomerc 2018-10-19 05:31 |
| #1 Too much for my tiny brain to wrap myself around, but it seems like when he was younger he was a terrorist, probably in line with MB. Now as a "journalist", when he is too old to fight, he continues his jihad by advocating that the Middle East needs MB to take over as the dominant political driver so they can get terrorism under control. What am I missing? |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-10-19 01:36 |