“Despite our well-intentioned efforts to reveal the truth, no concrete results have come out of those meetings,” the Istanbul prosecutor’s office said of the talks on Monday and Tuesday between Mojeb and Istanbul chief prosecutor Irfan Fidan.Of course this could also be a cover for an amicable resolution. The Turks say, "We haven't arrived at the truth yet," the Saudis stay mum, and the whole Khashoggi affair eventually disappears from the collective consciousness.
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David Kirkpatrick and Ben Hubbard report that King Salman's last remaining full brother, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, returned to Riyadh yesterday. Ahmed had been living in London for the last six years. He recently made public comments critical of the war in Yemen, the king and crown prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Ahmed's return to Saudi Arabia is being interpreted as a move to shore up the kingdom, a ceremonial display to placate Western governments that the crown prince has some oversight.
Prince Ahmed is widely seen as a figure of special gravitas in the family because he is the king’s only surviving full brother. He and the king are the last of the so-called Sudairi 7: the seven sons of the modern kingdom’s founder, King Abdul Aziz, by his favorite wife, Hussa bint Ahmed al-Sudairi. The brothers formed a powerful bloc among the king’s dozens of progeny, passing the throne from brother to brother and divvying up key ministries among themselves.Whitey Bulger was found beaten to death yesterday at Hazelton federal penitentiary in West Virginia. As Robert McFadden says in his story "Whitey Bulger Is Dead in Prison at 89; Long-Hunted Boston Mob Boss":
[Bulger] had been moved from prison to prison in recent years and was incarcerated in Florida before being transferred to Hazelton, which has been rife with violence.
One of the workers said that the inmates were thought to be “affiliated with the mob.” A law enforcement official who oversees organized crime cases said he was told by a federal law enforcement official that a mob figure was believed to be responsible for the killing.A couple years back I saw a decent documentary Whitey: United States of America V. James J. Bulger, about which I commented for my public library:
The takeaway from WHITEY is an obvious but important one: the United States Government is willing to collaborate with criminals and butchers to achieve strategic objectives. In this case, taking out the Boston area Cosa Nostra. We do it overseas -- working with the rich Gulf emirates who at the same time fund global jihad -- so why not at home? Whitey Bulger was mid-level tough Irish muscle before being made a king by the FBI. Our tax dollars hard at work.In his latest blog post, "The Ignominious Death of the United Kingdom," Craig Murray predicts that the end of the United Kingdom is coming soon:
Astonishingly, this collection of untalented careerists that constitutes the “government of the United Kingdom” is managing currently to extend its lead in the UK wide opinion polls, while falling back again into third place in Scotland. I have sympathy for friends in England who do not wish Scotland to be independent, because the Tories have such a majority in England. But they have no right to force Scotland to live under a succession of Tory governments, which it has not voted for in over 60 years. Similarly, the Scots have no right to prevent the English from living under Theresa May – or even under Jacob Rees Mogg – if the English continue inexplicably to wish to do so.
I have expressed for many years the hope that I will see Scottish Independence and a United Ireland before I die. I am happy to say I am now convinced that I will do so. That the end of the UK would be marked by such a squalid, incompetent and dysfunctional political leadership I could not have dared to hope. Thank God the UK will soon be over.
It's been awhile, but the whole affair with Bulger is connected with Robert Mueller's stay in Massachusetts, where the government prosecuted people for crimes known to be Bulger's. See what you can find.
ReplyDeleteHere's how the Boston Globe back in April dealt with the purported Bulger-Mueller connection:
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None. Mueller served in the US attorney’s office in Boston from 1982 to 1988, as chief of the criminal division, first assistant US attorney, and as acting US attorney for more than a year. During that time, Bulger ran a sprawling criminal enterprise and got away with murders because he was a longtime FBI informant who corrupted his handlers. The FBI and the New England Organized Crime Strike Force, a prosecutorial unit that worked independently of the US attorney’s office and reported directly to the Justice Department, used Bulger to build cases against the Mafia and gave him a pass on his own crimes. The FBI’s corrupt relationship with Bulger was exposed after he was indicted on federal racketeering charges in 1995 and became a fugitive. He was captured 16 years later.
Seems convincing to me. Mueller was in the U.S. Attorney's office. Bulger was run by the FBI and a special task force that reported directly to the DOJ. To make the Bulger-Mueller connect one would have to show that Boston's U.S. Attorney worked with the New England Organized Crime Strike Force. I'm sure it could be done, but I haven't found anything surfing around this morning.
It's quite possible that there have been cases where Mueller wasn't involved. However, https://caucus99percent.com/content/what-mueller-wont-find
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