By: S. Nawabzadeh
After 18 days of lies and denial of facts, Saudi Arabia has finally – following consultations with the US – sheepishly admitted its killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but as expected made a clumsy attempt to absolve the Heir Apparent of the macabre murder in its Istanbul consulate by laying the blame (for possible execution as scapegoats) on "rogue” interrogators, as immediately trumpeted by Trump, although Turkey, which rejected Riyadh’s multi-million dollar bribe to hush up the matter, has yet to announce details of undiplomatic crime on its soil.
The latest preposterous lie from the regime in Riyadh and its blind endorsement by the US president as "credible” not just exposes Mohamed bin Salman (MBS) as a fiendish maniac willing to commit any imaginable crime, but rips the mask of hypocrisy off the face of Donald Trump, whose greed for petro dollars makes him ignore basic human rights as is evident by his refusal to stop the sale of deadly weapons for the killing of more and more Yemeni men, women, and children.
World public opinion, including the American media and many politicians think the dastardly dismemberment of the Washington Post Correspondent with a bone saw could not have been a spontaneous act without the precise orders of MBS and perhaps a green signal from the corridors of power in Washington.
The name of MBS’ bosom pal, Jared Kushner, the Jewish son-in-law of Trump, is already in circulation as the person who wanted Khashoggi to be silenced for good, since his writings were laying bare the totalitarian Saudi system that tolerates not even the slightest dissent, and with it the complicity of the presidential clique in the White House in squeezing scores of billions of dollars from Riyadh.
The questions being raised are: Can MBS get away with his latest act of crude terrorism – glimpses of which the world saw in the crimes against humanity of the Saudi-supported takfiri terrorists in Syria and Iraq?
Would Trump and team remain unscathed from the unfolding scandal whose full dimensions are about to unravel for a shocked civilized world?
The answers to these and related questions will hopefully be found once the Turkish government, ignoring pressures from Washington and bribes from Riyadh, safeguards its integrity and independence by disclosing details of the crime on its soil and the names of persons and governments involved, as well as consequences for the perpetrators, so that such acts of state terrorism does not occur at diplomatic missions anywhere in the world.
Jamal’s case is of vital importance for Turkey, since he is the grandson of Dr. Mohammad Khaled Khashoggi (actual pronunciation Khashoqchi or Spoon-maker) the Turkish citizen from Kayseri in central Anatolia who settled in Mecca after disintegration of the Ottoman Empire, and served as personal physician to Abdul-Aziz Aal-e Saud, the desert brigand of Najd for whom Britain created Saudi Arabia in 1932 after he had seized the dominions of the Istanbul-backed dynasties of the Aal-e Rashid of Ha’el and the Hashemites of Hijaz.
Ankara would be doing a great service to the peace and stability of the region and the American-disturbed international order if it reveals the facts, no matter the heads of certain troublemakers were to fall.
MBS, whose strings of crimes include the martyrdom of the scholar Sheikh Nimr Baqer an-Nimr, the reducing to rubble of the centuries old historic quarters of the city of Awamiyya, the detention and mysterious killing of rival kinsmen of the Saudi clan, the hijacking of Lebanese prime minister, Sa’d al-Hariri, cannot be allowed to go scot-free this time after having destroyed Yemen and killed so far 20,000 of its people, in addition to displacing hundreds of thousands of others and threatening millions with famine and starvation.
Human conscience is thirsty for realities, not myths or dubious accounts, in view of the fact that Jamal Khashoggi, after all, was neither an innocent figure nor a dissident in the real sense of the word.
It was an open secret that he had ties to the CIA as well as to American arms manufacturers through his late uncle the multi-billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, one of Saudi Arabia’s most powerful weapons dealers.
This means his death has deep connections to the CIA, Saudi Intelligence, and the Zionist Mossad, since he represented the shadowy world of collaboration that sometimes exists between journalism and the intelligence agencies.
Indeed, as advisor to Turki bin Faisal Aal-e Saud, the head of Saudi intelligence for 24 years who also served as ambassador to Washington and then London, Jamal, who doubled as a journalist, had become a regime critic and sought asylum in the US only after internal power struggles broke out between Saudi princes.
He was an advocate of the Saudi destruction of Syria and Iraq, and an ardent supporter of MBS’ war in Yemen to stop alleged Iranian influence before he fell out and realizing it was impossible for Riyadh to defeat the well-entrenched popular Ansarallah Movement, constantly called for end of war and dialogue – ideas which did not go well with MBS.
In short, justice demands divulging of the plain truth, whether or not MBS survives as Heir Apparent or Trump trumpets threats, theatrics, and tweets at the free world, in a vain bid to cling on to power he certainly does not deserve.
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