You are spreading misinformation.
Originally Posted by WTF
So you are spreading half truths and distortions....
Originally Posted by WTF
You've said this a dozen times already in this thread. What exactly is the "misinformation"?
Khashoggi had a checkered past. That's a fact we can all agree on without minimizing or exaggerating it. Go back and read what Karen Elliott House, who is no conservative and knows the country much better than anyone in this forum, had to say about him in the article I copied in post #36:
"Mr. Khashoggi, notwithstanding his credentials as a columnist for the Washington Post, spent most of his adult life working with and for the Al Saud family and its media properties. He also did stints for Saudi intelligence, headed for part of the time by Prince Turki al-Faisal, who later served as ambassador to the U.S. Mr. Khashoggi’s early claim to fame was interviewing Osama bin Laden in 1980s Afghanistan, where both were allied with the anti-Soviet mujahedeen. Mr. Khashoggi broke with bin Laden in the 1990s and after 9/11 became Riyadh’s favorite example of a reformed Islamic fundamentalist, often produced for visiting Westerners to outline his conversion. But under King Salman and the crown prince, Mr. Khashoggi became an outcast, accused of supporting the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood. He moved to the U.S. in July 2017."
So the guy was an early al Qaeda sympathizer who conferred frequently with bin Laden before breaking ties with him to become by Saudi standards a "reformed Islamic fundamentalist". And he was a lifelong Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer. Presumably he kept those views in check during the past year while he was employed by the Washington Post. But there is a long and undisputed history of his work in Arab journalism and Saudi intelligence that should raise a lot of questions.
As I said earlier, none of this means Khashoggi deserved his fate. So why do you keep denying it?