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To: Texas Fossil
Erdogan is a putz, but so is MbS. I'm pretty sure that he hamfistedly ordered Khashoggi to be killed in this way (complete with "Breaking bad" style dissolving the body

A pox on both their houses.

24 posted on 11/21/2018 2:37:40 AM PST by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Cronos

I’m not sure he did. Khashoggi was connected with al Talal. He was outwardly supportive of the MB.

Turkey and Saudi Arabia have a long history of battle for power in the Middle East. At one point the leader of Saudi Arabia (Abdullah bin Saud) was captured (1818), brought to Istanbul and beheaded (outside the Hagia Sophia).

The Long Struggle for Supremacy in the Muslim World

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-long-struggle-for-supremacy-in-the-muslim-world-1540572987 (pay walled)

(https://www.hiiraan.com/news4/2018/Oct/160847/the_long_struggle_for_supremacy_in_the_muslim_world.aspx)

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27 posted on 11/21/2018 3:35:49 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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