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turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 04:39 PM Jun 2019

'Joints will be separated': Jamal Khashoggi's murder, retold

By JAMEY KEATEN and AYA BATRAWY16 minutes ago

GENEVA (AP) — The gathering on the second floor of the Saudi consulate featured an unlikely collection: a forensic doctor, intelligence and security officers, agents of the crown prince’s office. As they waited for their target to arrive, one asked how they would carry out the body.

Not to worry, the doctor said: “Joints will be separated. It is not a problem,” he assured. “If we take plastic bags and cut it into pieces, it will be finished. We will wrap each of them.”

Their prey, Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, would not leave the consulate in Istanbul alive. And on Wednesday, more than eight months after his death, a U.N. special rapporteur revealed new details of the slaying — part of a report that insisted there was “credible evidence” to warrant further investigation and financial sanctions against Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The report brought the grisly case back into the spotlight just as the prince and his country appeared to be emerging from the stain of the scandal. But it contained no smoking gun likely to cause President Donald Trump to abandon one of his closest allies — and none likely to send the crown prince before a tribunal.

https://www.apnews.com/fb852a09bc8f46b0b591dc615530b399

And let's not forget that the orange hair asshole said in his kick-off for re-election in Florida with his same old same old bullshit that it was / is the democrats that were attacking the press...............................this asshole, has not done one fucking thing to protect the press in this country or a journalist that lived in this country working for the Washington Post when he was murdered.................in Turkey.................


https://cpj.org/data/killed/?status=Killed&motiveConfirmed%5B%5D=Confirmed&type%5B%5D=Journalist&start_year=1992&end_year=2019&group_by=year

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Response to turbinetree (Original post)

turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
2. Sadistic jerks...........................every last one of them..................
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 04:48 PM
Jun 2019

no empathy what so ever.......................and this country keeps playing patty cake with these jerks...........................I lost an airline job because of that country and thousands have been killed and I mean thousands, now they go around murdering journalists..............................

Response to turbinetree (Reply #2)

turbinetree

(24,701 posts)
5. This country had the means to extradite the people involved in 9/11 and they did not do it..........
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 05:03 PM
Jun 2019

and then the rest is history........................and this country went down a different path........................and now we have this crap show going on........................nineteen years later..................................amazing...................

Response to turbinetree (Reply #5)

sop

(10,177 posts)
3. No "smoking gun" will ever cause Trump to abandon his support for MbS or Saudi Arabia
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 04:56 PM
Jun 2019

Trump and Kushner are neck-deep in this scandal with the Saudis. I hope Trump's (and Kushner's) financial entanglements in the region are fully investigated by Congress.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. This WaPo permanent resident was tortured before the murder.
Wed Jun 19, 2019, 05:07 PM
Jun 2019

An indication of what a Trump-lead government could be capable of doing to citizens if they had the power. "They" include our current Republican senators and congressmen, who support Trump's actions and refuse to do their duty to remove this morphing monster.

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