Saudi Arabia
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‘Grim Irony’: Saudi Strikes Use British Intel to Destroy UK Aid Facilities in Yemen
British-backed Saudi bombing destroyed Oxfam facilities in Yemen, said the United Kingdom charity. The information about the destruction of facilities of the humanitarian organization emerged during last week’s parliamentary debates in the House of Commons where U.K. ministries were evaluating the impact of the country’s arms sale to Riyadh. Continue reading
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Saudi Regime Survives but Enters the Time of Troubles By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
In a sensational disclosure quoting “intelligence sources”, former Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer wrote in the Financial Review newspaper on Sunday that the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi who was murdered on October 2 in Turkey was far from a “bleeding heart liberal” but was a seasoned intelligence agent and a sympathizer of the Muslim Brotherhood… Continue reading
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The Untouchable US-Saudi Relation Is a Core Element of US Imperialism By Federico Pieraccini
In the last few weeks, numerous articles and analyses have been produced relating to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. However, the relationship between Saudi Arabia and the United States has not been questioned, and the reason for this has not yet been explained. Continue reading
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Trump and the Khashoggi Conundrum By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
There is growing clarity about the denouement to the Jamal Khashoggi affair. The strong likelihood – a virtual certainty, one may say – is that the Saudi regime has weathered the storm. But issues remain. Continue reading
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Khashoggi Newslinks 25-26 October 2018
26 October 2018 — The New Dark Age The Saudi Butchery in Yemen and the World’s Apathy https://www.globalresearch.ca/saudi-butchery-yemen-worlds-apathy/5658060 The Khashoggi Murder – Worse Than A Crime, A Mistake https://orientalreview.org/2018/10/26/the-khashoggi-murder-worse-than-a-crime-a-mistake/ Continue reading
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Khashoggi Newslinks 25 October 2018
25 October 2018 — The New Dark Age Members of Asian political parties’ conference condemn Khashoggi’s murder http://tass.com/world/1027918 The Price Of Bin Salman’s Head http://thesaker.is/the-price-of-bin-salmans-head/ Continue reading
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Khashoggi, Erdogan and the Truth By Craig Murray
The Turkish account of the murder of Khashoggi given by President Erdogan is true, in every detail. Audio and video evidence exists and has been widely shared with world intelligence agencies, including the US, UK, Russia and Germany, and others which have a relationship with Turkey or are seen as influential. That is why, despite… Continue reading
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Listening In to Killings – and Everything Else By Brian Cloughly
It was intriguing that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 was apparently recorded in some fashion. The BBC reported that “A Turkish security source has confirmed to BBC Arabic the existence of an audio and a video recording. What is not clear is if anyone… Continue reading
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Converting Khashoggi into Cash By James George JATRAS
The hazard of writing about the Saudis’ absurd gyrations as they seek to avoid blame for the murder of the late, not notably great journalist and Muslim Brotherhood activist Jamal Khashoggi is that by the time a sentence is finished, the landscape may have changed again. Continue reading
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Jamal Khashoggi Newslinks 19-20 October 2018
20 October 2018 — The New Dark Age Jamal Khashoggi case: Saudi Arabia says journalist killed in fight https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-45923217 Continue reading
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Trump scrambles to cover for Saudi regime as crisis over Khashoggi murder mounts By Barry Grey
Following US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s emergency talks in Riyadh and Ankara, and amid mounting reports implicating Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the Trump administration is scrambling to shield Washington’s closest ally in the Arab World. Continue reading
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Syria’s UN Rep. Jaafari Puts Saudi Arabia in Its Place
Imagine a country where a royal family spends billions of dollars on US and UK weaponry in order to increase their domestic and regional hegemony, engaging in a brutal regime change wars by force by bombing its neighbors, as well as funding and arming radical Wahhabi terrorists throughout the Middle East, particularly in Syria, along… Continue reading
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Jamal Khashoggi Newslinks 19 October 2018
19 October 2018 — The New Dark Age ‘Mohammad bin Salman Must Go”, but US-Saudi Ties Are Here to Stay https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/19/mohammad-bin-salman-must-go-but-us-saudi-ties-here-stay.html Continue reading
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Killing Jamal Khashoggi Was Easy. Explaining It Is Much Harder By Philip M. Giraldi
If he was killed inside the building and dismembered, as seems likely, he could have had his body parts removed in the suitcases carried by the alleged fifteen official Saudis who had arrived that morning by private jet and left that afternoon the same way. The supposition is that the fifteen men, which may have… Continue reading
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Saudi Arabia’s Great Tumbling Down – The Boy Who Wanted to be King is No More
Where has Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gone? Since mainstream media broke news of the disappearance and alleged death of Jamal Khashoggi, MBS has gotten a little camera shy … and somewhat politically withdrawn. Continue reading
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Feigning moral outrage, the Times’ Thomas Friedman comes to the defense of the Saudi killer regime By Barry Grey
Leave it to Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ chief foreign affairs commentator, to outdo his colleagues at the nation’s foremost sounding board for CIA propaganda when it comes to hypocrisy and deceit. This he has achieved in an op-ed piece on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi published in Wednesday’s print edition under the headline… Continue reading
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Skripal and Khashoggi: A Tale of Two Disappearances By Finian Cunningham
Two disappearances, and two very different responses from Western governments, which illustrates their rank hypocrisy. Continue reading
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Duplicitous Khashoggi Picked the Wrong Prince
The murder of Jamal Khashoggi should be denounced. Professor As`ad AbuKhalil says western media’s uncritical praise of Khashoggi is unworthy, he was a loyal member of the Saudi propaganda apparatus and chose the wrong side of the House of Saud Continue reading
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Neo-Ottomanism Surges in Middle East Politics By Melkulangara BHADRAKUMAR
The fate of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hangs in the balance. The common perception is that everything depends on which way President Donald Trump moves – go by his own preference to bury the scandal over Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance or give in to the rising demand that Saudi-American relations can no longer be… Continue reading
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Murder in Istanbul
As more and more details emerge about the disappearance on October 2 of the well-known Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, it is becoming clear that a monstrous crime has been committed with serious worldwide implications. Continue reading
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