Khashoggi’s Editor Rails Against Saudi Lies That He Died In A ‘Fistfight’

Mohammad Bin Salman has started rounding up the usual suspects. When that’s finished, there will be some kind of a kangaroo court level proceeding and the fall guy of M.B.S.’ choice will serve time — or something. It’s all total nonsense and Washington Post editor Karen Attiah doesn’t mince words.

#Khashoggi was a 60 year old man. What sort of equal “fight" would he have had against 15 other men? And who brings a bone saw to a “discussion”?!

The stupidity of the Saudi explanation is mind boggling….

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) October 20, 2018

And we are supposed to believe, that Mohammed Bin Salman had no knowledge of this, even though his right hand man has been implicated, and a team of 15 men flew in on private planes entered a consulate on foreign soil to carry this out? #Khashoggi

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) October 20, 2018

What I hate about the statement is the use of the passive construction to imply this was an accident. Jamal didn’t just “die during a struggle.” #Khashoggi was killed. By Saudi men. In a consulate. His life was taken from him.

— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) October 20, 2018

It’s not improbable that if intel showed a planned rendition from VA, Jared warned MBS off of it and Turkey was Plan B. Lots of scenarios, but we must know US complicity – before and after. Deepest condolences to you, your colleagues and all whose lives Jamal touched. #Khashoggi

— SpeakOutNow16 (@SpeakOutNow16) October 20, 2018

That pretty much bottom lines it. Trump calls the press “the enemy of the people,” Ivanka said “the media was vicious” in 2016, and Jared hates the media, because neither the right wing nor the left can stand him. And it’s this lovely family that we are depending upon to chastise an out of control autocrat for the murder of a journalist? Think about it.

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