Stooo wrote:A very valuable person. I doubt that he will be killed quickly.
Grafenwalder wrote:Maybe his Apple watch might give some trail? Turkish intelligence are working on what it may have transmitted to his fiances phone. Get GCHQ on the job...they're pretty hot at harvesting stuff off phones!
Grafenwalder wrote:Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi walks into the Saudi consulate in Turkey last week only to end up "missing" after no contact since. Turkish news media publishes video footage of what it claims is an "assassination squad" arriving by private plane from SA who visited the consulate, then left Turkey the same day. Also video footage of 'suspicious movements' outside the Saudi consulate in Turkey.
Apparently Khashoggi is (was?) an outspoken critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Meantime it's thrown the west into a bit of a quandry dancing around and wringing their hands.
https://www.channel4.com/news/jamal-kha ... appearance
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/ ... 42286.html
LordRaven wrote:I was astounded because I had wrongly thought the person responsible was a modernising influence.
wutang wrote:LordRaven wrote:I was astounded because I had wrongly thought the person responsible was a modernising influence.
The Saudi ruling elite are always painting themselves as 'modernising influences' yet continuing to be fucking psychopaths. Its just PR so UK/US can continue to arm them without looking like arseholes
LordRaven wrote:
I was reading an article which suggested that all the religious police and leaders have been stripped of powers and women now have more freedoms, so I guess some good is coming out of this.
Repression in Saudi Arabia has reached a new level
It appears that nowhere is safe for Saudi dissidents
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-a ... -new-level
Since Muhammad bin Salman became crown prince of Saudi Arabia last year, thousands of dissidents have been jailed, often for offences as slight as failing to tweet royal talking points. The geographical scope of the repression is also expanding. Last month a Saudi satirist in London claimed he had been beaten by thugs from the Saudi embassy.
But rather than courting support, Prince Muhammad is ruling by fear. For all his promises of due process, most political prisoners are held without trial. They are the lucky ones. Essam al-Zamil, an economist, was reportedly charged with terrorism after questioning the proposed sale of part of the national oil company, which has since been postponed. The public prosecutor has called for Israa al-Ghomgham, a women’s rights activist, to be executed. He wants Salman al-Awdah, once the country’s most popular television preacher, to be killed too. Some whisper that Prince Muhammad has launched an inquisition.
wutang wrote:The Saudi ruling elite are always painting themselves as 'modernising influences' yet continuing to be fucking psychopaths. Its just PR so UK/US can continue to arm them without looking like arseholes
Grafenwalder wrote:Turkish officials were allowed into the consulate in Ankara only after Saudi staff, consular visitors and a team of cleaners equipped with mops, buckets and disinfectant had been allowed into the building.
Staggering!
https://www.channel4.com/news/trump-say ... appearance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... e-istanbul
Maddog wrote:Grafenwalder wrote:Turkish officials were allowed into the consulate in Ankara only after Saudi staff, consular visitors and a team of cleaners equipped with mops, buckets and disinfectant had been allowed into the building.
Staggering!
https://www.channel4.com/news/trump-say ... appearance
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... e-istanbul
There is likely nothing left of him but a puddle of liquid, poured into a pond somewhere.
Meanwhile, my favorite representative.........
Rep. Justin Amash (R–Mich.) wants to hold Saudi Arabia responsible for the disappearance and possible death of Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist critical of his country's government. On Twitter today, Amash said he's cosponsoring legislation that would block U.S. military assistance and arms sales to Saudi Arabia unless the kingdom is found to have had no involvement in Khashoggi's disappearance.
The bill was introduced yesterday by Rep. Jim McGovern, the ranking Democrat on the House Rules Committee. It's cosponsored by six other Democrats and two Republicans: Amash and Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.).
https://reason.com/blog/2018/10/17/just ... Nf_8K-CPe8
Don't expect this to go anywhere, but it's always good to acknowledge those who are trying.
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