John R. Bradley, Spectator: What the media aren’t telling you about Jamal Khashoggi
The dissident’s fate says a lot about Saudi Arabia and the rise of the mobster state
As someone who spent three decades working closely with intelligence services in the Arab world and the West, the Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi knew he was taking a huge risk in entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week to try to obtain a document certifying he had divorced his ex-wife.
A one-time regime insider turned critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — the de facto head of the Saudi kingdom which tolerates no criticism whatsoever — Khashoggi had been living in Washington for the previous year in self-imposed exile amid a crackdown on independent voices in his homeland.
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3 comments:
Not tactically savvy, whoever was behind this response to a person who was everything but a legal citizen of America. What made them think they could pull this off and not experience blowback from the world?
Inter gang warfare.
Kashoggi supported Osama bin Laden
Kashoggi wants the same thing as the Islamic State (IS).
He just has different methods.
His is one vote, one time.
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