Erdogan wanted to weaken the Saudis in order to strengthen Turkey’s bid to be once again the leader of the Islamic world. The Western media eagerly played along, wanting to use the Khashoggi murder as a stick they could use to beat Trump, as well as to weaken the opposition to the Islamic Republic of […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Why Would the Washington Post Hire Someone Like Jamal Khashoggi?
The Post hired an Islamic hardliner, and is now trying to cover its tracks. My latest in PJ Media: The Washington Post is indignant that “hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a whispering campaign against Jamal Khashoggi,” supposedly in order to “protect President Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident journalist’s alleged murder […]
Turkish media reports Saudi suspect in Khashoggi case dies in suspicious car accident
It is very hard to know whom to believe in this case. Would the Saudis do something like this to suppress evidence? Of course. Did they? Maybe. “Saudi suspect in Khashoggi case ‘dies in car accident’: Report,” Hürriyet Daily News, October 18, 2018: A Turkish newspaper reported on Oct. 18 that one of the suspects […]
Turkish claim that Khashoggi recorded his torture inside Saudi consulate almost certainly impossible
The Saudis have admitted killing him. But the Turks claims’ about the circumstances of the killing cannot be taken at face value. The Turks and the Saudis are rivals for leadership of the Sunni Islamic world, and so both have an interest in dissembling about what happened here and exploiting Khashoggi’s death for their own […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: The Saudis and the Killing of Jamal Khashoggi (Part One)
Jamal Khashoggi, a well-known Saudi journalist, went to the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to fill out some paperwork pertaining to his marriage — he was in the process of divorcing his Saudi wife so that he might then marry his Turkish fiancé. He entered the building at 1:14 p..m., and has […]
Media source for Jamal Khashoggi “scoops” is protege of imprisoned al-Qaeda financier
It still isn’t clear what exactly happened to Jamal Khashoggi, or who is responsible. The Turkish government insists that he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where Saudi government operatives murdered him. The Saudis deny this. There is no doubt that they could have done it, and that the Saudi government is capable of that […]