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Was Jamal Khashoggi About to Expose Saudi Use of Chemical Weapons in Yemen?
2018-10-29
[PJ] Sources close to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi are saying that it's possible he was killed because he was about to reveal Saudi Arabian use of chemical weapons in Yemen. The Sunday Express story also says that British intelligence knew that Khashoggi would be kidnapped when he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and tried to warn off Saudi intelligence -- to no avail.
Last night a close friend of Mr Khashoggi revealed that he was about to obtain "documentary evidence" proving clams that Saudi Arabia had used chemical weapons in its proxy war in Yemen.

"I met him a week before his death. He was unhappy and he was worried," said the middle eastern academic, who did not wish to be named.

"When I asked him why he was worried, he didn't really want to reply, but eventually he told me he was getting proof that Saudi Arabia had used chemical weapons. He said he hoped he be getting documentary evidence.

"All I can tell you is that the next thing I heard, he was missing."

While there have been recent unsubstantiated claims in Iran that Saudi Arabia has been supplying ingredients that can be used to produce the nerve agent Sarin in Yemen, it is more likely that Mr Khashoggi was referring to phospherous.

Khashoggi was, at one time, a consultant to Saudi intelligence and is generally believed to have been a regime insider. It's seems plausible that, if anyone could get his hand on documents exposing Saudi use of white phosphorus against civilians, it would be Khashoggi.
Posted by:Besoeker

#3  1. He was "not" an American journalist.
2. He fled to the U.S. when there was a change of politics in SA.
3. He was close to bin Laden.
4. He was critical of the Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
5. It is an internal affair of SA.
6. Supposedly, as reported this a.m., Britain was aware of the plot.
7. His family was very wealthy.
8. It is reported that he tended to embrace the MB.
9. The left in the U.S. jumped on his murder and said DJT has punish SA.
10. The story has dominated the news cycle longer than usual.
11. He worked for WAPO, the same newspaper(?) that John Podesta works for which is largely owned by Jeff Bezos and bankrolled to the tune of $600 mil by the CIA.

Why should we do anything about this SA affair? Why did Khashoggi not go to the SA embassy in Washington to clear up his records issues? It seems that Khashoggi was more of an operative than a journalist.



Posted by: JohnQC   2018-10-29 11:15  

#2  ...generally believed to have been a regime insider.
I wonder if some day it comes out that Kashoggi seduced some Saudi Princeling's Wifey #4 and that was the reason he got whacked?
Posted by: magpie   2018-10-29 09:53  

#1  Okay....
White Phosphorous (WP, AKA Willy Pete, smoke and/or incendiary munitions) equals Chemical War Agent equals WMD equals '!!Crimes Against Humanity!! News at 11'. Here we go again....
Posted by: magpie   2018-10-29 09:49  

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