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posted by takyon on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the is-that-a-bone-saw-in-your-pocket? dept.

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C.I.A. Concludes That Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Khashoggi Killed

The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, according to American officials.

The C.I.A. made the assessment based on the crown prince's control of Saudi Arabia, which is such that the killing would not have taken place without his approval, and has buttressed its conclusion with two sets of crucial communications: intercepts of the crown prince's calls in the days before the killing, and calls by the kill team to a senior aide to the crown prince.

[...] The increasingly definitive assessment from the spy agency creates a problem for President Trump, who has tied his administration to Prince Mohammed and proclaimed him the future of Saudi Arabia, a longtime American ally. But the new assessment by the C.I.A. is sure to harden the resolve of lawmakers on Capitol Hill to continue to investigate the killing of Mr. Khashoggi and punish Saudi Arabia.

Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, has been particularly close to Prince Mohammed. Mr. Kushner has long advocated that a strong relationship with the Saudis is in the United States' interest, and he has pushed to maintain support for the crown prince despite the death of Mr. Khashoggi, who Saudi officials now say was killed with a lethal dose of tranquilizers and dismembered. Previously, Saudi officials said that Mr. Khashoggi had been strangled.

[...] Neither administration officials nor intelligence officers believe the controversy over Mr. Khashoggi will drive Prince Mohammed from power, which is one reason White House officials believe cutting ties with the prince would not be in the interest of the United States.

takyon: The Saudis have denied the reports.

See also: Saudi media ignore US reports on Khashoggi
Top White House Official Involved in Saudi Sanctions Resigns

Previously: Turkey Says that a Missing Critic of the Saudi Government was Killed in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
Saudi Arabia Reportedly Prepared to Admit Involvement in Journalist's Death


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:21AM (8 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:21AM (#763281) Journal

    Where's realDonaldTrump to tell us this is fake news?

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:25AM (5 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:25AM (#763282) Journal

    He and Jared are too busy sucking said Crown Prince off. They'll be done soon enough, just wait around.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @02:11AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @02:11AM (#763311)

      I had fun writing assembly code that protected the DOs partition and obfuscated the MBR upon boot until russian hackers intercepted the writing calls and encoded everything.

    • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:13PM (1 child)

      by Phoenix666 (552) on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:13PM (#763516) Journal

      That's kind of a homophobic way to put it, isn't it? Have you been hanging out Ethanol-fueled?

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      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:18PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday November 18 2018, @04:18PM (#763521) Journal

        It's at about the level of discourse this site can handle, it seems.

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    • (Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Sunday November 18 2018, @05:23PM (1 child)

      by digitalaudiorock (688) on Sunday November 18 2018, @05:23PM (#763552) Journal

      Unimaginably, it seems that the reaction to this travesty is to get Turkey off of the Saudis backs by helping them kill someone else [nymag.com]. You almost can't make up this level of pure evil without sounding like an Austin Powers movie script.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:05PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 18 2018, @11:05PM (#763656)

        No, no, it's very easy to reach that level of evil.

        Just study history.

        Especially the history of governments, and the people that run them.

        Death by torture, massacre, famine, genocide, culture whitewashes ... you name it, it's well-precedented.

        It's almost enough to make one a libertarian.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by fustakrakich on Sunday November 18 2018, @07:27AM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Sunday November 18 2018, @07:27AM (#763402) Journal

    This close enough? [reuters.com] He's protecting his peeps...

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday November 18 2018, @12:40PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday November 18 2018, @12:40PM (#763456) Homepage Journal

    You don't need me to tell you what's fake. You know. You know. You’re seen it. You’ve lived it, and you elected me to put a stop to it. And we are doing a phenomenal job of putting a stop to it. That I can tell you. I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on Earth, right? They sort of made it sound like I had a feud with my Intelligence Community. I just want to let you know, the reason my wonderful Intelligence Community is the number one stop is it is exactly the opposite.

    Jamal, believe me, we're demanding everything about Jamal. And if it turns out he died, that's a terrible thing and it certainly would not be a positive to our deal with Saudi. It would certainly not be a good thing at all. But don't worry, we won't be cutting back on the deal. On the equipment we're selling them, and it's over $110 billion, could be as much as $500 billion. No cutting back on that one. I think that would be hurting us. We have jobs, we have a lot of things happening in this country. Frankly, I think that would be a very, very tough pill to swallow.

    And it's very sad. You hear so much about this one guy from the #AmazonWashingtonPost [twitter.com]. But, what about the many unknown Middle Easterners we have coming in from Honduras, from Guatemala, from Mexico? What about the horrible Caravan of People crossing our Southern Boarder in Tijuana? I have sent General Mattis and my Military to stop the terrorists streaming in. This is a National Emergy!!!