Posted on 10/15/2018 12:20:25 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
One of the most influential Arab journalists in the world, Jamal Khashoggi, went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. Turkish authorities have blamed the Saudis, but Riyadh has denied harming the veteran reporter.
Jamal Khashoggi, 59, was born in Medina, Saudi Arabia, one of the holiest cities in Islam. Like many Saudis at the time, Khashoggi left to study abroad. He earned a business administration degree in 1983 at Indiana State University in the United States.
Career in journalism
Khashoggi began his career as a reporter for the English language newspaper Saudi Gazette. He went on to work for several Arab newspapers and made his mark as a foreign correspondent covering Afghanistan, Algeria, Sudan and the Middle East in the 1990s. During that time, he met and befriended Osama bin Laden, who was fighting in Afghanistan against the Russians. Khashoggi interviewed bin Laden several times during that period.
He was deputy editor-in-chief of Arab News, the leading English newspaper of Saudi Arabia, from 1999 to 2003. He was named editor-in-chief of the Al Watan newspaper in 2003 but the job lasted only two months.
After he was fired from Al Watan, Khashoggi became media adviser to Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal, the former head of Saudi Arabia’s General Intelligence Directorate, who served as the Saudi ambassador to Washington from 2005 until the end of 2006.
On his personal website, Khashoggi writes he was reinstated as editor-in-chief at Al Watan in 2007 and served for three years before being fired again for “pushing the boundaries of debate within Saudi society.”
In 2010 he was made general manager of a new 24-hour Arabic news channel, Al-Arab, in Manama, Bahrain. The news channel was ordered off the air within 11 hours of its launch.
Self-imposed exile
Since then, Khashoggi has been a political commentator, appearing on several Arab and international news channels and writing for a number of publications and on social media.
He went into a self-imposed exile in the United States last year, fearing for his safety after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman began consolidating his position and cracking down on critics. He told Al Jazeera TV’s Upfront in March that he left the kingdom “because I don’t want to be arrested.”
Khashoggi comes from a powerful and well-known family in Saudi Arabia. He is the grandson of Muhammad Khashoggi, a Turkish doctor who married a Saudi woman and served as the personal physician for King Abdulaziz Al Saud, the founder of the kingdom.
Jamal Khashoggi is the nephew of Adnan Khashoggi, a Saudi businessman and arms dealer known for his part in the Iran-Contra scandal. Adnan Khashoggi was the middleman in the arms-for-hostages deal. In the 1980s, Adnan Khashoggi was estimated to have a net worth of $4 billion.
Jamal Khashoggi’s cousin, Dodi Fayed, was dating Britain’s Princess Diana when the two were killed in a car crash in Paris.
“Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal”
When was the Bloomberg announcement?
Before or after he lost 58% of his wealth to the SA Government? (give it or die)
Bingo! Fox says only info coming out of Turkey no where else.
Agreed.
I have said before that Islam can't be reformed so what we have to do is poison Islam by freeing its women and getting them interested in worldly things like personal vanity and thinking more about themselves and worldly pleasures than in doing what their God wants done. -Tom
I think the truth is that he was a brazen voice for oppression in a regime that was beginning to reform.
Quite a difference.
Agreed.
I have said before that Islam can’t be reformed so what we have to do is poison Islam by freeing its women and getting them interested in worldly things like personal vanity and thinking more about themselves and worldly pleasures than in doing what their God wants done. -Tom
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Then I hope you lose at “reforming Islam”, because it sounds like you just want to empower more Feminazis around the globe.
Not that it matters much but I had relatives that went to ISU around 1983 (article says he earned a degree in 1983). No mention of Khashoggi in the 1982, 83 or 84 year books. Probably lied on his resume.
My givvash!tometer is still stuck at zero.
I’ve seen it suggested that Khashoggi was a spook. For us. That his public positions were his cover.
Who knows.. but the amount of interest being accorded him sure seems odd.
I don't want to reform Islam I want to poison it, and get rid of it.
I am not interested in empowering feminazis. -Tom
There are certain parties a lot closer to home who would love Trump to rush headlong into a war.
Frankly, my concern meter is broken with this guy.
We won’t go to war over him.
I’m not sure we will ever be sure who killed him.
He was a Saudi insider, but he was in Turkey.
Some of the Saudi’s Royal Family were/are pro Jihadi’s. The new King does not appear to. So it is their stable to be cleaned.
Valid view point.
Understand.
I don’t know enough about him to have an opinion.
What do you base that opinion on?
I doubt it. Foreign students might fall through the cracks.
But if he were a spook as some suggest, it might be cover only.
Who cares?
Not the point. Civilised countries don’t torture, murder and dismember political opponents, especially in other people’s countries. This shouldn’t be tolerated, just as what the Russians did in Salmsbury shouldn’t be tolerated.
Sorry
Imposing our hypocritical morality on others has rarely borne fruit and often it makes things worse
It’s a Saudi problem
Israel kills its foes with legal warrant whenever necessary
Britain
France
The USA
Etc
I just don’t care as a rule and particularly with this guy
It’s a murky world
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