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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJamal Khashoggi "knew a lot about the Saudi government's involvement in 9/11", said families' lawyer
This was from two months ago (November 2019).
Speculation about the motive for Khashoggis assassination inside Saudi Arabias consulate in Istanbul has centered on his outspoken criticism of the Saudi government and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, also known as MBS, in opinion pieces published in the Post. Now, a new potential motive is in play.
Khashoggi was killed not because he was a dissident, but because of his contact with us, said James Kreindler, a prominent New York attorney who represents thousands of 9/11 family members and survivors who are suing Saudi Arabia.
According to Kreindler, Oct. 26, 2017 was also the day Khashoggi had met with an investigator for the 9/11 families in Washington.
Khashoggi was part of the intelligence community and we knew he knew a lot about the Saudi governments involvement in 9/11. He was connected to the Muslim Brotherhood and to [former Saudi Crown Prince] Muhammad bin Nayef, and thats the reason our investigator went to speak with him, said Kreindler. She said would you come to New York and talk to my boss? He said yes.
Im sure that as soon as she left, he called KBS [Khalid bin Salman] and said, Look, the 9/11 lawyers are on to me. They know that I know what you guys did and I didnt give em anything, but youre holding my kid in Saudi Arabia and if you harm him I will. So my belief is that Khashoggi was killed not because he was a dissident, there are lots of dissidents, but because he was holding this ax over the Saudis heads.
https://www.floridabulldog.org/2019/11/attorney-9-11-secrets-motive-for-murder-of-journalist-jamal-khashoggi/
ArtTownsend
(439 posts)Rhiannon12866
(254,443 posts)ArtTownsend
(439 posts)Midnight Writer
(25,299 posts)So, Khashoggi sat on this info for 16 years, even though he was a dissident reporter making a career in the USA? And the Royals just let him be, for all these years, even after he went to work for The Washington Post?
They dismembered him with a bone saw. These are not subtle people.
We already know what they did on 9/11. We just aren't going to do anything about it.
ArtTownsend
(439 posts)He (and his family going back to his grandfather) was well-connected to the House of Saud - as well-connected as, for example, the bin Laden family.
He even worked for long-time head of Saudi intelligence and then Ambassador to the United Kingdom and (briefly) the United States Prince Turki bin Faisal - who had been Osama bin Ladens patron in the 1980s war in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union. And Khashoggi publicly defended MBS, at least initially. His conversion to full-fledged Saudi dissident happened within the last year or two of his life.
Im inclined to believe this story.