As the mighty monsoon of information (and disinformation) known as the news cycle moves from the apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi to the attempted terror bombing of President Trump’s critics, the case of the murdered journalist may soon fade from the front pages and the news shows. Many people in Washington and Saudi Arabia certainly...
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The Rendition of Jamal Khashoggi
“It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die,” a Turkish source tells the pro-government news site Yen Safak. The source claimed to have heard the audio recording of the Saudi dissident’s assassination inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi, the source said, was drugged dismembered while still alive according to the unconfirmed report Mounting...
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What Did Jared Know?
The Khashoggi affair has rattled the Washington-Riyadh-Tel Aviv axis and swept the story of the two Russian GRU agents accused of poisoning a Putin critic off the home pages of the planet. The global news cycle, while capacious can only handle one story about a pro-Trump autocrat seeking to assassinate a critic in a foreign...
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Khashoggi Crisis War Drives Iran Off the Front Pages
Khashoggi’s Watch In a plot twist straight out of a Hollywood horror flick, Jamal Khashoggi’s Apple Watch may have recorded his death. Khashoggi’s “interrogation, torture and killing were audio recorded and sent to both his phone and to iCloud,” Turkish media reported. U.S. intelligence agencies–probably the NSA–had advance notice of Saudi intentions to waylay Khashoggi at the Saudi...
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Jamal Khashoggi Disappearance: ‘The Hallmarks of a Rendition’
The disappeared Saudi dissident was kidnapped, says one former U.S. official quoted by the Washington Post. The arrival and rapid departure of a Saudi security team “bore the hallmarks of a “rendition,” the official said. Khashoggi got the same treatment as terror suspects renditioned by the United states,(although the U.S. does not usually kill and dismember...