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'Sawed alive?' Gruesome 'taped' details of Khashoggi's alleged murder surface


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:49 UTC
Jamal Khashoggi
© AFP/Mohammed al-ShaikhJamal Khashoggi
After a Turkish daily said it obtained a recording from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul related to journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a London-based outlet published an ultra-graphic description of his alleged murder and dismemberment.

A three-minute audio recording of Khashoggi's said to reveal what happened to him at the Saudi consulate has been leaked to the Turkish daily Sabah, but the paper has yet to release it. It is said to have been recorded by the journalist's Apple Watch.

But the London-based Middle East Eye claims to know what's on the tape citing a source. It alleges the journalist was dragged into a study, where he was dismembered with a bone saw while he was still alive. The source also cites alleged witnesses hearing harrowing screams which only stopped, according to the claims, when the journalist was drugged with an unknown substance.


Comment: Gruesome if true. The RT video is informative. See also:

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Eye 2

US-backed ISIS in Syria's Al-Tanf region charging refugees to leave, recruiting others


Muraselon
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 12:00 UTC
syria civilians
Tens of civilians have returned to the regions that are under the Syrian Army's control after paying a hefty amount of money to be allowed to leave a US-run refugee camp in al-Tanf in Southern Homs, well-informed sources reported on Tuesday.

The Arabic-language website of Sputnik quoted the sources as reporting that tens of refugees in al-Rukban camp that is near the US-run al-Tanf base at the border with Iraq have fled towards their villages and towns in Eastern Homs.

It went on to say that the fleeing refugees have paid $2,000 to the US-backed militants to be allowed to leave the camp and move towards the army positions.

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Question

Saudi Arabia: Foul play? Suspected Khashoggi 'hit team member' dies in mysterious 'traffic accident'


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:36 UTC
Khashoggi/Meshal Saad al-Bostani/Consulate police
© Reuters/Osman Orsal/KJNTurkish police forensic experts arrive at the residence of Saudi Arabia's Consul General, October 17, 2018 • Murder victim Jamal Khashoggi • Accident victim Meshal Saad al-Bostani
A member of the 15-man team suspected in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has died in an accident back in Saudi Arabia, according to Turkish media, prompting suspicion of a cover up.

Meshal Saad al-Bostani, a 31-year-old lieutenant in the Saudi Royal Air Force, is believed to have died in a 'suspicious car accident' in the Saudi capital Riyadh, sources told the Turkish Yeni Safak - the one that earlier covered the shocking details of the murder.

A still taken from a Turkish police CCTV video, released by the Sabah newspaper, identified Bostani as he passed through Istanbul's Ataturk airport on October 2.

He, along 14 other Saudi citizens allegedly arrived and left Turkey on the same day and are alleged by Turkish police to have tortured and murdered Khashoggi after he entered the Saudi consulate.

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Alarm Clock

Report: Pompeo warns Saudis they have 72 hours to finish Khashoggi case probe or risk blowback


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 12:43 UTC
Pompeo al-Jubeir
© Reuters/Leah MillisU.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walks with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 16, 2018.
Mike Pompeo told Saudi Arabia's crown prince that he had 72 hours to finish his probe into the alleged murder of Jamal Khashoggi if he wanted to avoid tarnishing the kingdom's "place on the world stage," according to Axios.

The Secretary of State met with Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday. According to Axios, Pompeo told Salman during their meeting that the Saudi leader needs to "own" the situation surrounding the alleged macabre murder of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Pompeo also reportedly warned the crown prince that the timeline for dealing with the scandal is "limited" due to increasing global outrage.


Comment: A rich and powerful kingdom mysteriously executes a bad plan, combined with a demanding and antagonistic ally and international controversy...could be a box office hit if it wasn't real life, with real players, culminating in a real and horrific death (or is it?).

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No Entry

Trump to call the military to close Mex border as arrival of migrant caravan is days away


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:42 UTC
Migrants
© Reuters/Jorge CabreraHonduran migrants rush to join a 'caravan' heading north through Guatemala.
President Donald Trump has threatened to call in the military to seal off the US' southern border with Mexico, unless Mexico takes action to halt a 'caravan' of migrants making its way to the US from Central America.

In a series of tweets Thursday morning, Trump accused the governments of Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador of allowing a large 'caravan' of migrants to proceed towards the US unchecked, and hit out at the Democratic party for opposing his own brand of tough border control.

Trump also said that he "must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught - and if unable to do so I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!"

Comment: The issues of migrants - and the reasons they are such - become invisible to Washington unless they are knocking at a USA border door. By creating chaos, poverty and instability in other nations, the US shouldn't be surprised.

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Megaphone

Tories blast May for considering 'humiliating' Brexit delay; call for her to quit


RT
Thu, 18 Oct 2018 10:52 UTC
May at EU summit
© REUTERS/Yves HermanPM Theresa May arrives at the EU leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium. October 18, 2018.
Fuming Tory MPs have reacted angrily to Prime Minister Theresa May's admission that the UK could stay under EU rules "months" after Brexit - with some even telling her she needs to quit as leader over her handling of negotiations.

On Thursday morning, May faced reporters after a night of discussions in Brussels with her fellow 27 EU leaders that were intended to try and break the current impasse on Brexit negotiations.

She revealed one option that had emerged from last night's talks was an extension of the "implementation [or transition] period for a matter of months," in an effort to break the deadlock over the Irish border issue. The prospect of Brexit being further delayed, with a transition period running into 2021, and with it, potentially further UK payments of £15 billion going into the EU coffers, has infuriated Tory MPs.

What will alarm the PM is that it's now not just hardline Brexiteers questioning her leadership. Tory Remainer Nick Boles, a former minister for skills under David Cameron, has blasted May's "humiliating" concessions and claimed Conservative colleagues from across the Brexit spectrum are "close to despair."

Comment: Hold or fold...clearly May is not strong enough, capable of, nor comfortable with making this decision.

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USA

A party's dishonor: The Clinton, Warren revelations

Adriana Cohen
Boston Herald
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Killary
© Getty ImagesTwo-time loser Hillary Clinton
In a disastrous one-two punch leading up to the hotly contested midterms the Democratic party demonstrated - quite calamitously - how ill equipped they are toward reclaiming majority party status on Nov. 6.

Take two of its top so-called "leaders" U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Hillary Clinton. Both did more harm to their party in the past 72 hours than anything Trump has ever tweeted - even at 3 a.m.

Warren, long haunted by her dubious claims of Native American ancestry, decided just three weeks out from the election to release a self commissioned DNA test that proved she's no more Native American than the average white American.

You read that right. Pocohantas, as the president likes to call her, confirmed what voters with two eyes here in the Bay State have known all along - she's no Indian.

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Mail

Letter to Moreno: Top Democrat pushes Ecuador to 'hand over' Julian Assange

Daniel Chaitin
Washington Examiner
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 02:28 UTC
Julian Assange
© Mark CHew/Fairfax Media/Getty ImagesJulian Assange
WikiLeaks raised the alarm Wednesday after the top Democrat on the House Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno pushing him to "hand over" WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the "proper authorities."

In a tweet, WikiLeaks complained that Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., sent the letter without a signature from the panel's GOP chairman and noted that it was done just weeks before the 2018 midterm elections.

"NEW: Ahead of midterms, ranking Democrat, but not Republican, of House Foreign Relations Committee pressures Ecuador's president @Lenin to hand over @WikiLeaks' publisher @JulianAssange "A dangerous criminal and a threat to global security," the WikiLeaks Twitter account said.

Comment: Because truth can't be altered once it is revealed, we must punish the messenger. Assange is no criminal and needs not be brought to 'justice'.

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Snakes in Suits

Statement former OSCE Chair, Ukrainian chief diplomat: Russia has not invaded, no 'hybrid war'

Joaquin Flores
FRN
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 00:00 UTC
Leonid Kozara
© UnknownLeonid Kozara
Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, who is also the former OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Leonid Kozhara, has come forward and made a major public declaration which will have profound effects on the historical record and how EU officials will be required to treat the conflict in Ukraine, and the necessity of fulfilling the Minsk II Agreement. Kozhara's statements bring the EU back to the foundational framework of the Normandy Quartet, and away from US interference, which experts agree has been the major factor in the inability of Kiev to create a lasting peace on those terms.

Kozhara - whose record ranging from his tenure leading the OSCE and as Ukraine's chief diplomat is impeccable - is clear: from the point of view of international law, the conflict in the east of the country is not international, the concept of "hybrid warfare" must be abandoned, and the Ukrainian government is responsible for non-compliance with the Minsk agreements. Inarguably, in effect Kozhara is saying that Russia has not invaded Ukraine, and that it is an internal conflict - a civil conflict.
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Bomb

US-led coalition F-15 jets bomb Kurdish forces fighting ISIS, leaving 6 dead


RT
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 20:18 UTC
USAF F-15 fighter jets
© REUTERS / Gleb GaranichUS Air Force F-15 fighter jets fly in formation.
Two US-led coalition aircraft have bombed Syrian Kurdish forces, disrupting their offensive on Islamic State terrorists, RIA news agency reports. The diplomatic source has called out US' "lack of coordination and professionalism."

Two US-led coalition's F-15 fighter jets have mistakenly targeted Kurdish units amid their offensive on the remaining forces of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) terrorists in Syria, RIA reported, citing a "military and diplomatic source." It said six people were killed and 15 injured on the Kurdish side.


The incident, which took place near the town of Hajin in the Syrian eastern Deir ez-Zor province, did not just disrupt the operation but also reportedly led to numerous defections in the ranks of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Even worse, the terrorists managed to seize some territories in the area, the source added.
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