A must-read piece is Wayne Madsen's "The Arabian Game of Thrones Heats Up," which places Jared Kushner smack dab in the middle of Mohammed bin Salman's despotic moves. Madsen's allegation is that Kushner used highly classified intelligence to guide MbS regarding who to round up, detain, torture and, in Khashoggi's case, murder.
This is potentially the holy grail of smoking guns that elites have been hankering for. Rather than burrowing down the Russophobia rabbit hole after Trump, the answer all along has been Saudi Arabia (and Israel).
There is no let up on the front page of The New York Times. In "The Jamal Khashoggi Case: Suspects Had Ties to Saudi Crown Prince," David Kirkpatrick and colleagues go bell?ngcat to document the connections of members of the 15-man Khashoggi hit team to the crown prince.
"Trump Jumps to the Defense of Saudi Arabia in Khashoggi Case" shows how Trump is now going all out in his defense of the crown prince. Trump is even comparing the outrage over the butchering of Khashoggi to the outrage over Christine Blasey Ford's teenage assault at the hands of U.S. supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. That takes some chutzpah. The difference is that there is no wellspring of empathy in the United States for Saudi royalty, particularly after 9/11.
Trump is on thin ice.
This Khashoggi was the nephew of Adnan Khashoggi, who passed naturally (I think) a year ago. Adnan goes back to Bebe Rebozo, and has been dipping his beak into all sorts of things ever since. Things like BCCI, Iran contra, bank frauds. He sold a huge yacht to the Sultan of Brunei who in turn sold it to Donald Trump who in turn sold it to someone else to save one of his casinos.
ReplyDeleteKhashoggi has been an inside player long before most of us knew there was an inside.
Yes. Khashoggi was a bosom buddy of Osama bin Laden too. I think Khashoggi was dispatched in such a grisly fashion by MbS because Khashoggi was organizing the opposition, using his elite connections, to the crown prince.
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