Jamal Khashoggi

The real Jamal Khashoggi did not at all resemble the person he was represented in the US media as having been.

Consortium News
The Strange Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi

As’ad AbuKhalil | Lebanese-American professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus

Pepe Escobar at FB:

EXCLUSIVE: BUTCHER/KILLER/REFORMER MBS AND HIS PAL JARED

One of my top House of Saud-related sources confirmed it - once again: Khashoggi was CIA - and no wonder the CIA WaPo is up in arms.

Quite a few CIA senior ops are also after MBS prime WhatsApp pal Jared.
The narrative is that Jared alerted MBS that Khashoggi was a danger.

Other CIA ops were already in uproar when MBS pulled his Ritz-Carlton jail stunt - accusing Jared of TREASON: giving away CIA files on dissidents in the royal family which were CIA agents. That led to their deaths or arrests or at least forking out billions.

This is the real game: civil war at the top. The Trump clan vs. the CIA. Everything else is smoke and mirrors.

Also in the news.

“The king firmly denied any knowledge of it,” Trump told reporters. “He didn’t really know, maybe - I don’t want to get into his mind but it sounded to me - maybe these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?”

Reuters

Trump says 'rogue killers' may be behind Khashoggi disappearance
Tulay Karadeniz, Roberta Rampton

Also

“The Kingdom affirms its total rejection of any threats and attempts to undermine it, whether by threatening to impose economic sanctions, using political pressures, or repeating false accusations,” the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) quoted an unnamed official as saying.

“The Kingdom also affirms that if it receives any action, it will respond with greater action, and that the Kingdom’s economy has an influential and vital role in the global economy,” the official added, without elaborating.

Reuters
Saudi Arabia says will retaliate against any sanctions over Khashoggi case

Andrew Torchia, Arshad Mohammed