Saudi crown prince described slain journalist as a dangerous Islamist in call with White House

[brooklynite]

Source: Washington Post

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a dangerous Islamist days after his disappearance in a phone call with President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and national security adviser John Bolton, according to people familiar with the discussion.

In the call, which occurred before the kingdom publicly acknowledged killing Khashoggi, the crown prince urged Kushner and Bolton to preserve the U.S.-Saudi alliance and said the journalist was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group long opposed by Bolton and other senior Trump officials.

The attempt to criticize Khashoggi in private stands in contrast to the Saudi government’s later public statements decrying the journalist’s death as a “terrible mistake” and a “terrible tragedy.”

“The incident that happened is very painful, for all Saudis,” the crown prince, the kingdom’s de facto leader, said during a panel discussion last week. “The incident is not justifiable.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/saudi-crown-prince-described-slain-journalist-as-a-dangerous-islamist-in-call-with-white-house/2018/11/01/b4513e05-2d8e-4533-9cc8-2cabf8bb2d0a_story.html

[sandensea]

1. "And he is criticizing you, Donald."

"He is? Murdah him!"

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. I am surprised this story was even written..or not surprised.....I always like to know how sourced.

Who is talking about this? - Was this leaked? - and for what purpose? - To give the WH cover, just didn't know? - they took the word of MBS? - notice the article suggests this conversation took place BEFORE the acknowledgement of the murder... I am so sick of all this hate, BS, and lies.....

Khashoggi a dangerous islamist?? - says who? MBS, that's who...

[NastyRiffraff]

3. So that's the latest story

What is it, version 5.0?

[Racerdog1]

4. Yeah, they are all responsible

Blood on all their hands, the Saudi regime, Kushner, and Bolton. May the same fate come to all of these assholes.

[Botany]

5. Both Trump kids and Fox News talkers were more than happy to repeat these smears too.

And it was Kushner who more than likely helped to set up Khashoggi for his buddy MBS too.


BTW Saudi Arabia was the force behind 9/11 and they fund al Qaeda, Hamas, and the
Islamic Madrasas in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[Wellstone ruled]

6. Spin it Buddy,keep spinning it.

Just reading a Trump 3X5 card? Gaffney on your twitter list?

[SergeStorms]

7. MBS is a lying scumbag....

just like his buddy, Little Donnie Trump. The Crown Prince of the Trump family, Jared Kushner, shares in the blame as well. He's the one who needs money so badly that he'll curl up with any lying dog as long as they'll "lend" him money. Fuck the entire lying Trump/House of Saud/Russian bunch.

[JCMach1]

8. My hatred is deep for these people... Saudi operatives were responsible for the Sissi coup that

killed one of my journalism students in Cairo...

She was about as Islamist as I am...

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. Not to mention that little thing that happened on 9/11

No one talks about how, even if the royal family had nothing to do with it, then at least why did they have no knowledge or intelligence of what their own citizens, some related to the elite in SA, were up to? They took no responsibility. Instead encouraged the US to attack their enemy Iraq as a response.

[JCMach1]

11. Exactly, a lot of people have that personal connection too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habiba_Ahmed_Abd_Elaziz_Ramadan

https://www.cnn.com/2013/08/14/world/meast/egypt-victim-texts/index.html

[turbinetree]

9. Oh goody, the psychopath in Saudi Arabia is speaking to two other psychopaths

and they they will speak to the orange hair psychopath...................what could possibly go wrong...................13 million starving Yemen's using American technology..................... your assholes...............Kusher, Bolton and Trump