Evidence suggests crown prince ordered Khashoggi killing, says ex-MI6 chief

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Source: The Guardian

A former head of MI6 has said all the evidence suggests Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was behind the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and that the theory that rogue elements in the Saudi military were responsible was “blatant fiction”.
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“I think President Trump and his ministerial team are waking up to just how dangerous it is to have people acting with a sense that they have impunity in their relationship with the United States,” Sawers said.

“If it is proven, and it looks very likely to be the case, that [Prince Mohammed] ordered the killing of the journalist it is a step too far – one that the UK, the EU and the US are going to have to respond to.”

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/19/crown-prince-mohammed-jamal-khashoggi-killing-mi6-sir-john-sawers

[Solly Mack]

1. Trump has responded - he doesn't care.

[onit2day]

14. Trump got a $100 million bribe from the prince to Pompeo to say nothing.

[Solly Mack]

15. Plus all the millions they have spent on Trump properties.

[ChiTownDenny]

18. +1

[Mrs. Overall]

2. K & R

Will Kushner enter the story at some point?

[ChiTownDenny]

17. +1

[Racerdog1]

3. Not surprised

These are animals, remember 9/11? 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi. The orange asshole wants to be just like them.

[dalton99a]

4. And supported by the Trump crime family

[Chickensoup]

5. That is what happens when a leader

Is bought. I believe blackmail will follow.0

[BigGermanGuy]

6. just another incremental step

towards full out fascism.

this was a trial run.

first a us resident journalist in a foreign country

next a us citizen journalist in a foreign country

then finally a us citizen journalist in our country.

Yesterday I came to a stop at a red light and in front of me was a white van spray painted "CNN FAKE NEWS" and in the back window was a photo of Don Lemon hanging from a tree.

His base is being primed to accept this, we are being primed to expect it and feel powerless when it happens.

Arm yourselves fellow progressives, and pray you never need them.

[better]

7. I wish I could say I disagree with your advice to arm ourselves...

but it has been glaringly apparent to me for quite some time now how ironic it is that it's our party that has for so long been working to enact more stringent gun control laws, and mocking the notion of being armed to protect against a tyrannical government, specifically because it has been obvious to me for at least a decade that if ever this country did descend into fascism, it would be we Democrats who would be targeted, and thus have a legitimate need to be armed for self-defense.

[BigGermanGuy]

8. i've always been a gun owner in favor of common sense

gun reform. but make no distinction about it, I am a gun owner. in the plural.

I live on 7 acres, my property fenced. I have 4 spare bedrooms, run on solar and well, and a very full pantry.

if shit ever goes down, i'm more than happy to lend a hand...or an arm.

[dameatball]

11. I believe you are correct. One more step to legitimize the repression and killing of

journalists. For two years we have seen people asking daily "How can his actions get any worse?" Yet, they do. What was once unthinkable becomes the new normal. It is not by accident.

[OMGWTF]

13. Traitor Tot's Base are such good little "Germans"

[berni_mccoy]

9. Headline is missing the end of that statement: "...For Trump"

Saudi Prince was little more than a hit-man executioner for Drumpf.

[AllyCat]

10. UK will be on their own

US is now a dictatorship

[marieo1]

12. Mad, evil men

I still think the Crown Prince talked to DJT about Khashoggi coming to SA. I'll bet he even offered DJT lots of money if he could somehow lure Khashoggi to SA. I believe DJT did and that is why Pompeo went to SA after the murder was to get that money. You know DJT was responsible, otherwise why would he keep saying how wonderful these madmen/murders are - instead he refuses to really come down hard on any of them. DJT relates to all greedy, cruel men because he and his sons are just like them.

[cp]

16. This story haunts me

So gruesome. Reminds me of beginning days of terrible WW2, particularly Nazi Germany, and the "good" Germans.
Determined not to be a "good" American.