KNews.id- When a well-known Saudi journalist disappeared inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, the West was initially reluctant to believe the leaks from the Turkish presidency that Jamal Khashoggi had been murdered and his body massacred.
Two full weeks passed before New York Times correspondent Carlotta Gall accused the Turkish president of using selective leaks at state-owned outlets to pressure the Saudis.
Dubbing the gruesome details of Khashoggi's murder, Gall wrote on October 19 of that year: “No newspaper has actually obtained the audio [of the killings] or even listened to them, enabling the government not only to keep their origins but also to maintain control over how many things. it was revealed - and when.”
And why trust Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about the fate of a journalist?. "The enduring irony of Mr. Khashoggi's case is that, while pushing details of the case to selected media, Mr Erdogan's own government is openly hostile to independent journalists," Gall wrote.
Targeted by the Tiger Squad Four days before the Times cast doubt on the details of Khashoggi's disappearance, we now know that a second killing crew from the Tiger Squad allegedly landed in Toronto - 50 in all, including forensic experts to erase the trail. Their mines are more dangerous for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) than Khashoggi can do.
Saad al-Jabri is Prince Mohammed bin Nayef's right-hand man at the Interior Ministry. He has the rank of minister. He knows all the embarrassing secrets of his ministry, including that King Salman and his son allegedly dipping their hands in the ministry's counterterrorism fund, up to tens of millions of Saudi riyals a month.
This is of course only a fraction of King Salman's monthly income. Jamal Khashoggi told me, with good authority, that the King's monthly salary was 3 billion riyals or $ 800 million. This number is astonishing. It's no wonder the Saudi balance of payments is soaring on the brink. Jabri was, and indeed is, an insider.
After his stint as a press officer for the former security minister, Khashoggi was nothing more than a well-connected journalist. But by then he was already outside Diwan, the royal palace. Other insiders have violated the regime. But unlike them, Jabri was willing to face the regime in full. Not so with Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, Salman's younger brother.
Ahmed signaled his unhappiness with the manner of prosecuting war in Yemen, when he approached Yemeni and Bahraini protesters outside his London home. But he didn't go any further. Bin Nayef also said nothing about the humiliation he suffered; nor have any other princes lost their assets at the Ritz Carlton. (FHD)
