Posted on 10/15/2018 12:20:25 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
What if this had happened in the Saudi consulate in the US, and then they took the body parts away and buried him in a forest in the US? Why should the west trade with these countries and end up so that domestic jobs that depend on trade with countries as abhorrent as Saudi Arabia?
Consular immunity in America would have not granted the Saudis much cover
It would have been a poor choice of a place to do this
I’m not sure why they didn’t assasinate him in public perhaps if he was such a thorn to them
This has likely terminated the Crown Prince aspirations which in my view is not a good turn
Had the Crown Prince wanted to get rid of Khashoggi there are any number of discreet ways to do it. Assassinating him inside a Saudi embassy is definitely not one of them.
In fact, killing him in the embassy was guaranteed to generate an international incident and deliver a major setback to MbS. Which I suspect was the intended goal, since MbS is not a fool and would have known better.
My suspicion is that this was ordered by someone else in the Saudi royal family whose intention is to discredit MbS and if possible replace him.
It feels that way
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