Turkish officials have stepped up accusations against Saudi Arabia over the apparent assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, saying that the order to assassinate him came from the “highest” levels of the Saudi royal court.
On top of this, Turkish officials named 15 Saudi men that they have identified as “operatives” involved in the assassination of Khashoggi. The group included a Saudi special forces member, two royal guards, and a chief in the internal security agency.
Saudi officials have denied that anything at all happened to Khashoggi, saying he entered the consulate on October 2 and left unharmed. Turkish officials claimed unspecified confidential intelligence that he is dead. His body has not been found, but there has been no sign of him since this visit.
Turkey even his video of this putative assassination team, who all arrived in Turkey on two Gulfstream jets. That Turkey was so easily able to identify this group, and that they arrived in such a conspicuous manner suggests that the Saudis did little to cover their actions, and may even have figured being implicated would intimidate other dissidents.
Anyone who thought Prince Mohamed bin Sultan would bring a realist aspect to Saudi Governance must surely by NOW realize that HE is absoulately beyond that pall in global politics. Murder of such a reluctant critic of Saudi excasses & hubris should put all but the most bought off and brain dead into re-evaluaton mode. Sultan, along with his genocidal war with Yemen should disturb even the most supportive allies of Saudi Shea exceptionalist recklessnes & ethnic insanity. What did Yemen ever do to the Saudis or any other Arab/Suni State to deserve the open warfare from their or any other neighboring State..???????
The Saudis have clearly gone completely mad in their attempts to sufocate ANY criticism whatsoever of their brain dead policies of absolute control over the narative of what the Saudid say & do in the greater context of contemporary ģovrnance. “The King is Mad, find someone else to lead the nation!!!!”
This has nothing to do with ine man. Not in US or Saudi Kingdom. Saudis have displeased the masters — the barrage of condescending messages from Washington to Riyadh has not been too subtle. The reply has not been too subtle either. Somebody will have to walk back from the ledge. Let us see who.
Iran is a blossoming, western-style democracy compared to the archaic and brutal Saudi regime.
I’m sure that the Trump administration will give the Saudi’s the most severe slap on the wrist imaginable.
Maybe those Saudis should haved used American and British passports for their assassination team, like the Israelis did when they assassinated one of their enemies by a hit team.
Punish the best customer who buys our weapons?
Suppose the Saudi’s default on our loan in retaliation to stern actions of Trump. Will Trump then get these weapons back forcefully?
The double standard here is obvious. Think for a moment about the Skripal affair. When the evil Ruskies were accused of poisoning them in the UK, there were sanctions imposed and ambassadors withdrawn within days, without any actual evidence provided. Not going to happen here, folks.
Skripal’s poisoning did not happen in the Russian embassy where we know Russia had full control . We really don’t know how this happened
That makes the double standard here all that more glaring, Eric. With the Skripal affair, the UK, the USA, and much of Europe pulled their ambassadors and imposed sanctions with no evidence, no motive, no nothing. With the KSA… a slap on the wrist, maybe.
Where is the evidence? Zip.
The disappearence of the journalist would be a deliberate act of the Saudi official government . Where as Saudi Arabia got by passing 9 11 off as a terrorist act that the Saudi government did not control . So harm to the journalist is something the Saudi government wanted to do and had total control
Where is the evidence?
And
“that they arrived in such a conspicuous manner”
may also suggest that they have nothing to do with the incident. Saud has to loose much. Who benefits?