The sinister Saudi regime of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (a.k.a. Mohammed Bone Saw) has been vigorously trying to get the story of their murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi to die. The UN's human rights organization released preliminary findings that the Saudi regime undermined and curtailed the Turkish government's attempts to probe Khashoggi's murder in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last October. According to Agnes Callamard, the U.N.'s special official leading the investigation, the Turks were given "woefully inadequate access" to the crime scene, impeding the investigation. The Saudis have yet to disclose where Khashoggi's remains are.
In a separate report yesterday, U.S. intelligence sources intercepted a conversation between Bone Saw and an aide, in which Bone Saw is heard to say that he'd use "a bullet" on Khashoggi if he didn't cease his criticism of the Saudi regime, and Bone Saw in particular:
"The conversation, intercepted by American intelligence agencies, is the most detailed evidence to date that the crown prince considered killing Mr. Khashoggi long before a team of Saudi operatives strangled him inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and dismembered his body using a bone saw."Bone Saw's relationship with the regime of con man and Kremlin asset Donald "Rump" Trump, and Rump son-in-law Jared "Mr. Ivanka Trump" Kushner in particular, has colored the U.S.'s tepid response to the murder of a journalist working for a major U.S. newspaper. Bone Saw reportedly said in 2017 that he had Kushner "in his pocket," presumably through a financial loan or line of credit extended when Kushner was seeking financing for his failing property at 666 Fifth Avenue in New York, or for other financial reasons.
What makes the convergence of these stories timely is the additional connection of the Saudi regime with the National Enquirer / David Pecker extortion and blackmail allegation from mega-billionaire and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos. As he wrote in his statement, Bezos has reason to believe that Saudi intelligence services may have had a hand in the theft of his private communications which are the subject of the extortion scheme. The Saudis would like nothing better than to embarrass Bezos, whose paper has been doggedly pursuing Bone Saw's complicity in the Khashoggi murder (and as a favor to Rump, who hates the Post's coverage of him). Rump's possible role with Pecker in trying to smear the owner of the Washington Post might yet be revealed as this story unfolds.
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