Hey, TF, you are better versed on this stuff than most FReepers, including myself:
1) Agreed, it’s not saying much, but SA still has more credence than the Turks.
2) That said, if as suggested on FR and elsewhere that maybe SA had a legit reason, as they saw it, to take out Khashoggi, why do they not simply say so? Or, they could fabricate a reason. (As also noted on this thread, we have droned thousands: The explanation each time that the departed was a terrorist, happened to be in the same room as the target terrorist, etc., generally seems to be sufficient.) Ok, yeah, this guy was a “journalist” opposed to MBS, but how many of such, with suspect “friends”, no less, are out there dissing the Prince, fomenting trouble, etc.? Quite a few, I’ll wager. Have any others been killed?
3) MSB’s usual moves against opponents don’t seem to involve sending a large squad to chop them up. Ye, I know it’s the ME, but I keep thinking “Somebody must have really, REALLY wanted Khashoggi dead.” But (going back to “2” above), no one says why —this in a culture where most any reason is often sufficient.
I keep thinking there is something more to all this that we don’t know...
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