Once Upon A Time...

[Allandavid]

If it weren’t so tragic, it would almost be comic...

The latest ‘story’ from the Saudis about the killing...

Saudi Arabia Finally Admits to Killing Jamal Khashoggi, Blames General Close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

In summary....

1. Kashoggi announces that he wants to go to the embassy.

2. A group of 15 people, including members of the Royal Guard and a forensics expert with a bone-saw, fly to Turkey and enter the embassy. Their plan is to convince Kashoggi to come back to Saudi-Arabia.

3. Both meet in the embassy. The discussion goes badly and somehow devolves into a fistfight between Kashoggi and the other 15 people.

4. During that fistfight, they accidently kill him.

5. Now with a corpse on their hand, they seem to decide to cover it up and they just so happen to have a forensics expert with a bone-saw on hand.

Oh dear...

The interesting question is to what extent Donnie will go along with this fiction....

 

[Goonie]

If it weren’t so tragic, it would almost be comic...

The latest ‘story’ from the Saudis about the killing...

Saudi Arabia Finally Admits to Killing Jamal Khashoggi, Blames General Close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

In summary....

1. Kashoggi announces that he wants to go to the embassy.

2. A group of 15 people, including members of the Royal Guard and a forensics expert with a bone-saw, fly to Turkey and enter the embassy. Their plan is to convince Kashoggi to come back to Saudi-Arabia.

3. Both meet in the embassy. The discussion goes badly and somehow devolves into a fistfight between Kashoggi and the other 15 people.

4. During that fistfight, they accidently kill him.

5. Now with a corpse on their hand, they seem to decide to cover it up and they just so happen to have a forensics expert with a bone-saw on hand.

Oh dear...

The interesting question is to what extent Donnie will go along with this fiction....

Hook, line and sinker. My understanding is that blaming the general was what the Trump admin wanted, so expect them to pretend to reluctantly accept the explanation and carry on with business.

 

[Colter]

I wonder if they used the same ghost writer who concocted the YouTube video/Benghazi story?

 

[Allandavid]

I wonder if they used the same ghost writer who concocted the YouTube video/Benghazi story?

Kindly take your Whatabout nonsense to your own thread...

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

Kindly take your Whatabout nonsense to your own thread...

Why so unfriendly?

 

[Colter]

Kindly take your Whatabout nonsense to your own thread...

Oh, is this your private thread?

 

[Allandavid]

Oh, is this your private thread?

As the instigator of this thread, part of my responsibility is to keep it on topic. You want to veer off into ‘BENGHAZI..!’ tangents, you do it in your own thread thanks...

 

[Allandavid]

Now, in the spirit of the thread, the part of this obviously concocted tale that strikes me is this...

The audio/video that the Turks have apparently includes the severing of this poor man’s fingers while he is alive. At the risk of committing gallows humour, what kind of ‘fistfight’ results in someone’s fingers being removed...??

 

[Colter]

Now, in the spirit of the thread, the part of this obviously concocted tale that strikes me is this...

The audio/video that the Turks have apparently includes the severing of this poor man’s fingers while he is alive. At the risk of committing gallows humour, what kind of ‘fistfight’ results in someone’s fingers being removed...??

The Saudi's killed this guy in some fashion in their consulate in Turkey. The Trump admin would want to determine what the truth is and what to do about it. Early rumors are often unreliable. There was a rumor that his apple watch recorded the whole thing then sent it up in the apple cloud where his fiancé downloaded it?


It's highly unlikely that journalist Khashoggi recorded inside the Saudi Consulate using Apple Watch

 

[Doctor.Sphinx]

As the instigator of this thread, part of my responsibility is to keep it on topic. You want to veer off into ‘BENGHAZI..!’ tangents, you do it in your own thread thanks...

It wasn't off-topic. It was relating to a similar, hard-to-believe story. And you could have been more polite about it, even if you believed it was off-topic.

 

[Allandavid]

It wasn't off-topic. It was relating to a similar, hard-to-believe story. And you could have been more polite about it, even if you believed it was off-topic.

When people want to change the subject on these threads, they frequently do so with “BENGHAZI...!” or “HER EMAILS...!!” posts. The Whatabout gets a little tedious...

And I did use the word “kindly”...others would have been more blunt...

 

[Allandavid]

The Saudi's killed this guy in some fashion in their consulate in Turkey. The Trump admin would want to determine what the truth is and what to do about it. Early rumors are often unreliable. There was a rumor that his apple watch recorded the whole thing then sent it up in the apple cloud where his fiancé downloaded it?


It's highly unlikely that journalist Khashoggi recorded inside the Saudi Consulate using Apple Watch

Trump’s automatic response was to accept whatever story/ies the Saudis came up with. And to tell lies about the dollar value of their relationship with both the US and with him...

 

[The Barbarian]

I wonder if they used the same ghost writer who concocted the YouTube video/Benghazi story?

If he happened to be a terrorist in Benghazi, perhaps...

Captured Suspect Said Benghazi Attack Was Revenge For Anti-Islam Video
NYT: Captured Suspect Said Benghazi Attack Was Revenge For Anti-Islam Video

 

[The Barbarian]

When people want to change the subject on these threads, they frequently do so with “BENGHAZI...!” or “HER EMAILS...!!” posts. The Whatabout gets a little tedious...

Yep. But it always backfires on them. See above.