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Arabia
MBS Says Khashoggi Murder 'Repulsive Incident', Talks to Erdogan
2018-10-25
[An Nahar] Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's crown prince Wednesday denounced the murder of critic Jamal Khashoggi as a "repulsive incident," insisting the kingdom was cooperating with Ottoman Turkish authorities and that "justice will prevail."

"The incident was very painful for all Saudis, it's a repulsive incident and no one can justify it," Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
said in his first comments since the murder of the journalist.

"Those responsible will be held accountable... in the end justice will prevail," the prince said, speaking in Arabic during an address to the Future Investment Initiative Forum in Riyadh.

"Many are trying to exploit the Khashoggi affair to drive a wedge between Saudi Arabia and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
," he said.

"But they will not succeed as long as there is a king named Salman and a crown prince named Mohammed bin Salman," MBS stressed.

Earlier in the day, a Ottoman Turkish presidential source said MBS and Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
discussed steps to "shed light" on Khashoggi's murder, in their first telephone conversation since the killing.

Erdogan has far spoken twice on the phone with Saudi King Salman
...either the largest species of Pacific salmon or the current Sheikh of the Burnin' Sands, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques and Lord of Most of the Arabians....
since Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and Riyadh critic, was killed inside the Saudi consulate on October 2, which he had visited to obtain documents for his marriage to a Ottoman Turkish woman.

Posted by:Fred

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