{"id":2081,"date":"2019-04-06T19:33:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T19:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2081"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T17:00:00","slug":"Is-the-Media-Covering-Up-‘the-Real-Story’-About-Jamal-Khashoggi?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.syyhoaxanalyzer.com\/?p=2081","title":{"rendered":"Is the Media Covering Up ‘the Real Story’ About Jamal Khashoggi?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Is the Media Covering Up ‘the Real Story’ About Jamal Khashoggi?<\/h1>\n

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The “global media” is covering up “the real story” about what happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A hideous story unspooled before the international media in October 2018, when Saudi Arabian journalist and Washington Post<\/em><\/a> \u00a0columnist Jamal Khashoggi \u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d who had been living in Washington, D.C. after fleeing his home country a year before due to persistent death threats in response to his criticism of its government \u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201d abruptly vanished<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, sources told CNN that the report will acknowledge that \u00a0Khashoggi died in a botched interrogation<\/a>, one that was intended to lead to his abduction from Turkey. A Turkish official told CNN on Tuesday that Khashoggi’s body was cut into pieces after he was killed two weeks ago at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The claim, which was first made to the New York Times earlier in the investigation into Khashoggi’s fate, comes after Turkish officials searched the consulate for nine hours on Monday night.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Khashoggi had entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 to finish up what should have been a relatively quick errand: he was getting routine paperwork finalized so that he could marry his Turkish fianc\u00c3\u00a9e. The errand was so quick, in fact, that his fianc\u00c3\u00a9e stayed outside to wait for him. He never came out. He has been missing<\/a> \u00a0ever since.<\/p>\n

Since that day, reports have been accumulating slowly but surely, all of which so far seem to indicate \u00a0a horrific state-sponsored murder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Reports from Turkish sources that the Saudis allegedly \u00a0murdered and dismembered the dissident writer<\/a>, a Washington Post contributor, have fanned a growing backlash against Riyadh in Western capitals. But the kingdom has circled the wagons and angrily hit back at the accusations \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and it seems to have found a willing ally in President Trump.<\/p>\n

On Monday morning, Trump held a 20-minute phone call with the Saudi king and then parroted Riyadh’s denials to reporters. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don’t want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers,” \u00a0Trump said<\/a>. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who knows? We’re going to try getting to the bottom of it very soon, but his was a flat denial.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Initial calls for an investigation were met with more denials, then attempts to muddy the narrative from Saudi Arabian officials and their assorted supporters. Those denials were then boosted by an eager \u00a0bevy of conspiracy theorists and true believers. One of the latter, a conspiracy theorist named Thomas Wictor (who is perhaps best known for being banned by Twitter for openly speculating, without any proof whatsoever<\/a>, that actress Alyssa Milano was plotting to assassinate controversial Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh) produced a strange, evidence-free monologue from a filthy room \u00e2\u20ac\u201d complete with a colander on his head, presumably as a trolling attempt \u00e2\u20ac\u201d supporting the line that Khashoggi had left the consulate twenty minutes later after he entered it in a video that was immediately picked up by Twitter accounts supporting Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman:<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00d9\u201e\u00d8\u00a8\u00d9\u0160\u00d8\u00a8 Labeeb (@LabeebHub) October 15, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n