{"id":39134,"date":"2018-10-15T05:53:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39134"},"modified":"2018-10-15T05:53:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T10:53:04","slug":"did-saudis-cia-fear-khashoggi-9-11-bombshell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=39134","title":{"rendered":"Did Saudis, CIA Fear Khashoggi 9\/11 Bombshell?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Did Saudis, CIA Fear Khashoggi 9\/11 Bombshell?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The macabre case of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi raises the question: did Saudi rulers fear him revealing highly damaging information on their secret dealings? In particular, possible involvement in the 9\/11 terror attacks on New York in 2001.<\/p>\n

Even more intriguing are US media\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0now emerging that American intelligence had snooped on and were aware of Saudi officials making plans to capture Khashoggi prior to his apparent disappearance at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. If the Americans knew the journalist\u2019s life was in danger, why didn\u2019t they tip him off to avoid his doom?<\/p>\n

Jamal Khashoggi (59) had gone rogue, from the Saudi elite\u2019s point of view. Formerly a senior editor in Saudi state media and an advisor to the royal court, he was imminently connected and versed in House of Saud affairs. As one commentator cryptically put it: \u201cHe knew where all the bodies were buried.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the past year, Khashoggi went into self-imposed exile, taking up residence in the US, where he began writing opinion columns for the Washington Post.<\/p>\n

Khashoggi\u2019s articles appeared to be taking on increasingly critical tone against the heir to the Saudi throne, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The 33-year-old Crown Prince, or MbS as he\u2019s known, is de facto ruler of the oil-rich kingdom, in place of his aging father, King Salman.<\/p>\n

While Western media and several leaders, such as Presidents Trump and Macron, have been indulging MbS as \u201ca reformer\u201d, Khashoggi was spoiling this Saudi public relations effort by criticizing the war in Yemen, the blockade on Qatar and the crackdown on Saudi critics back home.<\/p>\n

However, what may have caused the Saudi royals more concern was what Khashoggi knew about darker, dirtier matters. And not just the Saudis, but American deep state actors as as well.<\/p>\n

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Did Saudis, CIA Fear Khashoggi 9\/11 Bombshell? The macabre case of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi raises the question: did Saudi rulers fear him revealing highly damaging information on their secret dealings? In particular, possible involvement in the 9\/11 terror attacks on New York in 2001. Even more intriguing are US media\u00a0reports\u00a0now emerging that American intelligence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[10,135,16113,22167,701,8203],"class_list":["post-39134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-10","tag-cia","tag-finian-cunningham","tag-jamal-khashoggi","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-strategic-culture-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39135,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134\/revisions\/39135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}