RTSun, 21 Oct 2018 16:34 UTC
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Riyadh doesn't know how Khashoggi was killed or where his body is, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told Fox News, just one day after his country claimed the journalist was killed in a "fistfight" inside the consulate in Istanbul.
Jubeir once again stressed that the crown prince was "not aware" of Khashoggi's killing, which he dubbed a "tremendous mistake."He added that his country is working on determining what exactly happened and where Khashoggi's body is. He said the Saudi probe was initially prompted by conflicting reports of whether the journalist left the consulate in Istanbul.
Jubeir also said that Riyadh wants to hold anyone responsible for Khashoggi's death to account.It comes just one day after Saudi Arabia stated that Khashoggi had died in a "fistfight" in the consulate, with authorities announcing the detention of 18 suspects in the case.
Although Riyadh said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman had nothing to do with Khashoggi's death, that claim has been met with skepticism.
Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi royal family, was last seen when he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Ankara would reveal the full truth surrounding his death on Tuesday, after his country previously stated that the journalist was killed by a Saudi assassination squad.
Meanwhile, Britain, Germany, and France issued a joint statement on Sunday in which they say there is an "urgent need for clarification of exactly what happened" to Khashoggi. They added that "hypotheses" proposed by the Saudi investigation need to be backed up by facts.
While some are calling for US sanctions against Saudi Arabia, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Sunday that it is
too early to discuss such measures "until we get further down the investigation and get to the bottom of what occurred."
Any punishment by Washington over the matter seems unlikely to involve the $450 billion arms deal between the two countries. President Donald Trump has repeatedly hailed the deal as being important, citing the large sum of money and jobs it is bringing to the country.
Comment: The Trump admin may not be willing to pass any premature sanctions (Russia didn't get that courtesy), but
others in the government are not pleased with the delay:
However, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-New Mexico) is among those who aren't happy with Mnuchin's apparent willingness to push Khashoggi's death to one side and continue talking oil with Riyadh as normal. Earlier on Sunday, he called for the US to ban Saudi oil imports over the journalist's death.
"The United States cannot allow this gross human rights violation to go unanswered," the Democratic senator said in a statement. "I am therefore calling for a ban on oil imports from Saudi Arabia until the highest levels of Saudi government are held accountable for their actions."
Heinrich also took aim at Donald Trump in his statement, saying that the US president "would rather embrace denials and cover-ups rather than hold those responsible accountable."
Meanwhile, Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) told CNN on Sunday that he believes Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is behind the death of Khashoggi. "If he's gone forth and murdered this journalist, he's now crossed the line and there has to be a punishment and a price paid for that," he said. "Do I think he did it? Yes, I think he did it," he added, noting that there should be a "collective" response from Western countries if that is the case.
Although Trump largely held back his criticism of Riyadh following its Saturday admission, referring to it once again as a "great ally," he later decided he wasn't satisfied with the information that had been provided by Saudi Arabia after all - after the EU, France, and Germany did the same.
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See, the story isn't making sense because the spotlight is focused on all the wrong places and of course why wouldn't it be. It's the mass media that's doing that, just like they always do, so the truth is he needed to be eliminated before someone with good intentions could their mitt's on his body and cough out all the dirty laundry before he was killed by the same people whom he had failed to understand were now deposed and ruthless because those secrets were just too damned dangerous.
Con-job; Just look at the kind of individual we are dealing with there. His whole life is a con job. Have we forgotten CGI, Hollywood Magic, Boston, and a few hundred other con jobs? The classic CNN Fake War Broadcast with fake palm trees.
Khashoggi was a Clintionite, he was a tool and stooge whom has a job at the Washington Compost pushing political propaganda for his corporate masters, and that propaganda wasn't in support of the new Saudi King. Oh yes, he claimed he wasn't anti-Mohammad bin Salman but seriously who did he think he was kidding?
Maybe the guy is dead, and if he is the people who wanted him dead the most were all the "previous" people he had ties, links, and experiences with. Dirty laundry secrets are what really killed him.