Nothing excusing the slaughter of Jamal KHASHOGGI. Just fascinating.

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When the slaughter happened it was just shocking in the brutality, compounded by the implicated bin Salman and Drumpf's giving a pass.

The only label at the time was "Washington Post columnist." The surname KHASHOGGI didn't ring the bell it should have: Relative of the arms dealer and who-knows-what-else Adnan K., which only in recent months (for me) set the bell off that there was something more.

There are links inside to the other episodes of this series. And I've never gotten over the negative vibes of "isikoff" from the Bill CLINTON days.

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https://news.yahoo.com/he-gave-nobody-a-full-view-of-his-life-in-his-final-days-jamal-khashoggi-juggled-a-secret-wife-in-the-us-and-a-fiance-in-turkey-090031920.html

'He gave nobody a full view of his life': In his final days, Jamal Khashoggi juggled a secret wife in the U.S. and a fiancée in Turkey
Michael Isikoff·Chief Investigative Correspondent

.... The story of Khashoggi’s complicated personal life during the last year of his life is the subject of “A Tale of Two Women,” Episode 7 in the new season of Yahoo News’ “Conspiracyland” podcast, “The Secret Lives and Brutal Death of Jamal Khashoggi.” It is a story that overlaps with a period in which Khashoggi, as a columnist for the Washington Post, was becoming ever more forceful in his criticisms of the harsh crackdowns of Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, even comparing him at one point to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

It is also a period in which Saudi electronic surveillance of critics of Crown Prince Mohammed, also known as MBS, became ever more pervasive and oppressive. And, as “Conspiracyland” reveals, that surveillance even extended to Khashoggi’s love life, revealing vulnerabilities that MBS’s operatives were only too happy to exploit. ....

But even as Khashoggi was carrying on his double life, the Saudi surveillance overseen by MBS’s right-hand man, Saud al-Qahtani, was intensifying. The Saudis had bought a sophisticated form of spyware called Pegasus from an Israeli company, NSO Group. That spyware allowed them to penetrate the iPhones of regime critics, reading their messages in real time.

One of those targeted was Omar Abdulaziz, the dissident living in Montreal whose personal data had been stolen by Saudi spies at Twitter. Abdulaziz was by then swapping messages with Khashoggi about a scheme to counter Saudi disinformation, sending SIM cards to regime critics so they could post anonymously on social media without al-Qahtani’s snoops knowing who they were. ....

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1. NOTHING JUSTIFIES WHAT HAPPENED, PERIOD!!!

The NSO group openly sells their putrid spyware with the blessing of the government.

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2. Self kick (trying it another way)

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3. Another piece in the WaPo. What does the US know and how did they abet the murder?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215597645

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4. Thanks