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Title: Saudi Arabia delivers $100 million to US as missing journalist mystery deepens
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URL Source: https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018 ... ing-journalist-mystery-deepens
Published: Oct 17, 2018
Author: staff
Post Date: 2018-10-17 23:16:34 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV...

Saudi Arabia has delivered a previously promised $100 million to the United States as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Riyadh to discuss the fate of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing after visiting the kingdom’s consulate in Turkey’s largest city of Istanbul more than two week ago.

According to a New York Times report, the money landed in American accounts on Tuesday and was for purported American efforts to stabilize areas in Syria liberated from the clutches of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

'No coincidence'

The timing of such payment, which the Riyadh regime had pledged to the Trump administration in summer, has raised cynical eyebrows among pundits.

“The timing of this is no coincidence,” an American official involved in Syria policy said on condition of anonymity.

Turkish forensic police officers arrive at the Saudi consulate for a second investigation in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 17, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

This is while Brett H. McGurk, the US special envoy to the US-led coalition purportedly fighting Daesh, asserted that Pompeo's visit to Saudi Arabia and the $100 million payment were not connected.

“The specific transfer of funds has been long in process and has nothing to do with other events or the secretary’s visit,” McGurk said.

Pompeo visited Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. He met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu the following day. PressTV-Whitewashing Saudis, Trump hints at ‘rogue killers’ The US president, as analysts imply, is trying to whitewash Saudi rulers in the case of Jamal Khashoggi.

On Monday, US President Donald Trump co-signed Saudi Arabia’s Khashoggi cover-up, saying "rogue killers" could be responsible for the mysterious disappearance of the 59-year-old writer.

“I just spoke with the king of Saudi Arabia, who denies any knowledge of what took place. The king firmly denied any knowledge of it,” Trump said.

“I don't want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers,” he added.

Turkish officials maintain that they have evidence that Saudi officials killed and dismembered Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post, inside their consulate in Istanbul.

Saudi leaders have denied any role in the journalist’s disappearance but have not provided an obvious explanation of what happened to him. PressTV-Saudi consul general back home as journo probe widens Saudi Arabia's consul general in Istanbul leaves Turkey for Riyadh as an investigation into the disappearance of dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi widens.

Analysts say Saudi officials plan to blame Khashoggi’s killing on rogue elements, who allegedly acted on their own not on official orders in a desperate attempt to save the battered image of the kingdom and its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Khashoggi’s fiancée Hatice Cengiz said he entered the consulate at around 1 p.m. local time (1000 GMT) on October 2, as she accompanied him but waited outside.

The woman, who is a Turkish citizen, called police when Khashoggi did not emerge at 5 p.m., after the consulate had officially closed. PressTV-‘Saudis must disclose whereabouts of missing Qataris’ A Qatari rights group urges the Saudi regime to disclose the whereabouts of four Qataris, who were forcibly disappeared in the kingdom, as pressure grows on Riyadh over the Kashoggi case.

The rights group Prisoners of Conscience, which is an independent non-governmental organization advocating human rights in Saudi Arabia, announced in a post on its official Twitter page that it did not dismiss the possibility that Khashoggi's sudden disappearance was an attempt to silence the writer.

The Arab21 news website reported that the author paid a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul late last month but was told by officials at the time to return at a later date to complete an application related to a family matter.

Khashoggi, a prominent commentator on Saudi affairs who writes for The Washington Post’s Global Opinions section, has lived in self-imposed exile in the US since September 2017, when he left Saudi Arabia over fears of the Riyadh regime’s crackdown on critical voices.


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steven -from UK... trump is a business partner with MBS in several project in saudi-Arabia. how he can condemn him .it is a suicide business

J.J.-Clutch-Cargo-Likes-a-"Mandate"... Out comes the Bribe Money from the House of Saud, they think they can buy their way out of everything, even a brutal Murder

Alan Alan...

100 million dollars, now we know the price of a mans life, Im suprised the US took MBS's first offer, I expected them to hang out for more. I feel another giant arms sale is in the offing. Whats interesting is the US democratics are using this as a stick to beat Trump with, even raising the issue of Saudi's war in Yemen which they've ignored for 4 yrs.

Dev... US has cross the redline this is the lowest of the lowest thing a man could do took bribe to cover up a brutal murder for the Saudi evil regime. US has been a rough state and a nasty regime build on corruption but they been hiding it for so long now they become desperate for money they started showing their true colour. How can a man who call himself a president come on international TV and tell such a barefaced lies to cover up murder for the Saudi evil regime that only proof how desperate the US regime are.

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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0) (Edited)

So.... Putin is personally responsible for the chem attack on Skripal, but this fish king running Saudi Arabia had nothing to do with Khashoggi's disappearance/death in SA's own consulate. These are "rogue killers" who happened to get a free pass to do their killing in the SA consulate, which means, of course, that SA knows exactly who the "rogue killers" are.

I'm sure their apprehension, identification and prosecution will be forthcoming very shortly, and we all know that SA is pleased to dole out the death penalty with a sharp scimitar.

It's about time that Saudi Arabia is called out for being the tyranical, terrorist country it is. However bad Iran is, if indeed they are bad at all, Saudi Arabia is much worse when it comes to terrorism.

Trump is doing good domestically, but he's been horrible with foreign policy.... not that that equates to anything worse that his predecessors...

Pinguinite  posted on  2018-10-18   3:43:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Pinguinite (#1)

It's about time that Saudi Arabia is called out for being the tyranical, terrorist country it is.

Indeed, Saudi Arabia has the Madrassa's that are the root of the evil. Terrorists sprout from them like weeds. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-10-18   6:02:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Pinguinite (#1)

Very well said!


"Define yourself as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion."—Brennan Manning

Rotara  posted on  2018-10-18   8:29:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Pinguinite (#1)

he's been horrible with foreign policy...

US foreign policy is the domain of a Congress whose members had to pledge loyalty to Israel to get enough financial, organizational and media support from Zionist Jews to win at the polls.

Tatarewicz  posted on  2018-10-19   5:53:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: Pinguinite (#1)

SA knows exactly who the "rogue killers" are.

But of course. They came into Turkey with diplomatic passports. The only way to get those is thru the Saudi government itself. ;)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke

BTP Holdings  posted on  2018-10-19   6:08:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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