Saturday, October 13, 2018

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Missing Or Murder

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Missing Or Murder  --- ===


*Sources


Jamal Khashoggi: Saudi journalist 'recorded his own torture and ...
www.independent.co.uk › News › World › Middle East

'The moments when Khashoggi was interrogated, tortured and murdered were recorded in the Apple Watch’s memory', says newspaper. ... A missing Saudi journalist may have recorded the moments he was allegedly tortured and killed on his Apple Watch, a Turkish newspaper reported.

Recordings prove Jamal Khashoggi was killed, Turkish investigators ...
https://www.theguardian.com/.../recordings-prove-jamal-khashoggi-killed-turkish-invest...

urkish investigators have claimed video and audio recordings exist that prove Jamal Khashoggi was killed, a sign that Ankara is willing to ...permission was withdrawn after Turkish media published the names and pictures of an alleged 15-man assassination team captured on CCTV at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, which included a forensics expert and several Saudi intelligence and military officers.

As well as the six-storey consulate, the investigation is focused on the consul general’s home 200 metres away, where it is believed Khashoggi’s body was disposed of.

Khashoggi, a well-known and respected member of elite Saudi and Washington DC circles, left Saudi Arabia last year after growing fearful for his safety and has since served as a columnist for the Washington Post.


Turkish paper reports: Saudi journalist's watch may have transmitted ...
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/12/middleeast/khashoggi-saudi-turkey.../index.html

 Istanbul (CNN) Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have recorded his owndeath, a Turkish newspaper reported Saturday morning.Khashoggi turned on the recording function of his Apple Watch before walking into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, according to Sabah newspaper.  The moments of his "interrogation, torture and killing were audio recorded and sent to both his phone and to iCloud," the pro-government, privately owned newspaper paper reported. The Turkish newspaper said conversations of the men involved in the reported assassination were recorded. Security forces leading the investigation found the audio file inside the phone Khashoggi left with his fiancé, according to Sabah.

Khashoggi: Trump vows punishment if journalist was murdered by ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/13/middleeast/khashoggi-saudi-turkey.../index.html

4 hours ago - Trump vows 'severe punishment' if journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudis. By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN. Updated 9:22 AM ET, ...

Turkey Claims It Has Audio And Video Proof That Jamal Khashoggi ...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../turkey-jamal-khashoggi-footage_us_5bc0945ae4b...

1 day ago - The footage reportedly backs up the presumption that the journalist was tortured and killedinside the Saudi consulate.

Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi Killed By Saudi Consulate - The Wire
https://thewire.in/media/saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-killed-saudi-consulate

39 mins ago - Top Turkish officials described how Khashoggi was killed within two hours of his arrival at the consulate by a team of Saudi agents, who ...

Donald Trump vows 'severe punishment' if Saudi Arabia murdered ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › News

3 hours ago - ... “severe punishment” for Saudi Arabia if it is proven that the kingdom was responsible formurdering Jamal Khashoggi, the missing journalist.


Everything We Know About Jamal Khashoggi's Disappearance - NYMag
nymag.com/daily/.../everything-we-know-about-jamal-khashoggis-disappearance.html

Turkish authorities have alleged that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post journalist and critic of the Saudi regime, was brutally murdered ...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jr-boosts-smear-tying-missing-journalist-jamal-k...
The president's son, along with conservative media, are using Jamal Khashoggi'sinterviews with Osama bin Laden to imply he supported ...

The journey of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi: From travels with ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...bin-laden...jamal-khashoggis.../c1290f28-ca3d-11e8...

From travels with bin Laden to sparring with princes: Jamal Khashoggi's provocative journey. Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, pictured in ...

What the media aren't telling you about Jamal Khashoggi | Spectator ...
https://spectator.us/2018/10/jamal-khashoggi/

 Where is the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi? ... He had befriended Osama bin Laden in the 1980s and 1990s in Afghanistan and ...

reports in the American media that all surveillance footage was removed from the consulate building, and that all local Turkish employees there were suddenly given the day off. According to the New York Times, among the assassination team was the kingdom’s top forensic expert, who brought a bone saw to dismember Khashoggi’s body. None of this has yet been independently verified, but a very dark narrative is emerging.

bin Salman’s regime has been revolutionary: he has let women drive, sided with Israel against Iran and curtailed the religious police. 

 provoked global outrage, but it’s for all the wrong reasons. We are told he was a liberal, Saudi progressive voice fighting for freedom and democracy, and a martyr who paid the ultimate price for telling the truth to power. This is not just wrong, but distracts us from understanding what the incident tells us about the internal power dynamics of a kingdom going through an unprecedented period of upheaval. It is also the story of how one man got entangled in a Saudi ruling family that operates like the Mafia. Once you join, it’s for life, and if you try to leave, you become disposable.

In the 1970s he joined the Muslim Brotherhood, which exists to rid the Islamic world of western influence. He was a political Islamist until the end, recently praising the Muslim Brotherhood in the Washington Post. He championed the ‘moderate’ Islamist opposition in Syria, whose crimes against humanity are a matter of record. Khashoggi frequently sugarcoated his Islamist beliefs with constant references to freedom and democracy. But he never hid that he was in favour of a Muslim Brotherhood arc throughout the Middle East

It was Yasin Aktay — a former MP for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) — whom Khashoggi told his fiancée to call if he did not emerge from the consulate. The AKP is, in effect, the Turkish branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. His most trusted friend, then, was an adviser to President Erdogan, who is fast becoming known as the most vicious persecutor of journalists on earth. Khashoggi never meaningfully criticised Erdogan. So we ought not to see this as the assassination of a liberal reformer.

Muslim Brotherhood, though, has always been at odds with the Wahhabi movement. Khashoggi and his fellow travellers believe in imposing Islamic rule by engaging in the democratic process. The Wahhabis loathe democracy as a western invention. 

from the royals’ point of view, was that Khashoggi had dirt on Saudi links to al Qaeda before the 9/11 attacks. He had befriended Osama bin Laden in the 1980s and 1990s in Afghanistan and Sudan while championing his jihad against the Soviets in dispatches. At that same time, he was employed by the Saudi intelligence services to try to persuade bin Laden to make peace with the Saudi royal family. The result? Khashoggi was the only non-royal Saudi who had the beef on the royals’ intimate dealing with al Qaeda in the lead-up to the 9/11 attacks. That would have been crucial if he had escalated his campaign to undermine the crown prince.

Like the Saudi royals, Khashoggi dissociated himself from bin Laden after 9/11 

Khashoggi had earlier this year established a new political party in the US called Democracy for the Arab World Now, which would support Islamist gains in democratic elections throughout the region. Bin Salman’s nightmare of a Khashoggi-led Islamist political opposition was about to become a reality.

The West has been fawning over bin Salman. But how now to overlook what seems to be a brazen Mafia-style murder? 

Jamal Khashoggi: The man who knew what crossing Bin Salman ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/08/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi...bin.../index.html

3 days ago - Over 15 years that I have known Jamal Khashoggi, though he could be coy ... His access toBin Laden and others like him put Khashoggi on ...

October 12, 2018
Daniel Greenfield Frontpage (right media)

Media martyr Jamal Khashoggi is being described as a political dissident.
By no coincidence, Jamal Khashoggi was an old friend of Osama bin Laden.

In early 1990 Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia and gave a lecture in which he predicted that Saddam Hussein would invade Kuwait.
Jamal Khashoggi, who had travelled extensively with Bin Laden in Afghanistan, attended the talk and afterwards asked his old friend how he could be so certain of the future.
"He recited a verse from the Koran," recalls Jamal.
"The verse means the one who practises jihad for God, for Allah, God will show them the right path. I wasn't comfortable about it. He had given himself the position of 'I am seeing things because God is directing me towards it'. That was the first time I felt that Osama began to have an inflated ego."
Jamal lost touch with Bin Laden in the mid-1990s and Khaled in the early 1990s as both completely rejected his ideology.
Although it has been many years since either of them saw Bin Laden, both admitted feeling sad at the death of their old friend in a raid by US forces in Pakistan earlier this month.

The media spins this as Jamal being a moderate. Only insofar as tactics go.

He was a Muslim Brotherhood member and continued backing the Jihadist network.

Muhammad bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi, the main power in the United Arab Emirates, regards the Brothers as a menace. The UAE has arrested scores of their activists. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad of Qatar, by contrast, has been a principal sponsor of the Brotherhood (see next article). Under Muhammad bin Salman, the hitherto ambiguous Saudis now side with the Emiratis. He speaks of a “triangle of evil” encompassing Iran, IS and the Muslim Brotherhood. As such he seems to be drawing a dividing line between Arab states (and tame salafists) on one side, and all forms of Islamism on the other—be they non-violent Brothers or jihadists. “It is a crazy analysis about the threat of a pan-Islamic empire,” says Jamal Khashoggi, a former editor of al-Watan, a Saudi-owned newspaper, who now works as a columnist in exile in America. “He treats IS and the Brotherhood as the same thing—the only difference being that IS tried to create the caliphate immediately by violence while the Brotherhood wants to create the caliphate slowly, through democracy.”

No comments:

Post a Comment