June 2017

Khashoggi leaves Saudi Arabia for Washington, DC, where he hopes to continue writing amid a crackdown on dissent in his native Saudi Arabia.

September 28

Khashoggi pays a first visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document attesting he had divorced his ex-wife, a requirement under Turkish law, in order that he be able to marry Cengiz.

Cengiz described that first meeting as positive and said consulate staff had "welcomed him [Khashoggi] warmly and assured him that the necessary paperwork would come through".

October 2

Accompanied by Cengiz - who waited outside the consulate - Khashoggi is recorded by surveillance cameras entering the building at 13:14pm (10:14 GMT).

Cengiz is instructed to contact Yasin Aktay, a close aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in case anything goes wrong.

Three hours pass before Cengiz asks consulate staff about Khashoggi, at which point she is told he had already left the building through the back door.

Thursday, October 4

Turkey's foreign ministry summoned Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Ankara over the disappearance of Khashoggi.

The ambassador, however, denied knowing anything about Khashoggi's disappearance, adding that he would inform authorities once he obtained further information.

Friday, October 5

Mohammed bin Salman tells Bloomberg that Khashoggi is not inside the consulate, adding that he is not against a Turkish investigation taking place and searching the mission.

Saturday, October 6

Reuters journalists tour the six-storey consulate in northern Istanbul where Khashoggi was last seen.

Al-Otaibi says that while the consulate was equipped with cameras, these did not record any footage the day of Khashoggi's disappearance.

A government source says Turkish police believe Khashoggi was murdered inside the consulate.

Sunday, October 7

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he remains hopeful about the fate of Khashoggi amid reports that the critic may have been killed.

Yasin Aktay, Erdogan's adviser, tells Reuters he believes Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate.

Aktay added that a 15-man hit squad was "most certainly involved" in the matter.

Monday, October 8

Erdogan says the burden of proof falls on the Saudis.

"We have to get an outcome from this investigation as soon as possible. The consulate officials cannot save themselves by simply saying 'he has left'," Erdogan told a news conference in Budapest.

US President Donald Trump says he is concerned about reports of Khashoggi's disappearance.

Tuesday, October 9

The Washington Post - for whom Khashoggi wrote columns - reports that US intelligence had intercepted communications of Saudi officials planning to abduct the prominent journalist.

"Saudis wanted to lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia and lay hands on him there," the Post quoted a person familiar with the information as saying.

The US Department of State says it wasn't tipped off about such an operation.

The United Kingdom issues its first statement on Khashoggi's disappearance and demands "urgent answers".

The French foreign ministry also issues a statement on their website, saying it is closely following developments in Khashoggi's case.

Saudi Arabia agrees to let Turkish authorities search the consulate.

English-language state broadcaster TRT World says Turkish officials believe the Saudis may have taken the consulate's CCTV footage with them when they returned to the kingdom.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/jamal-khashoggi-case-timeline-181017155740442.html

Other events occurring

October 9

– Nikki Haley unexpectley announces that she will resign at the end of the year.

She calls Jared Kushner a ‘hidden genius that nobody understands’.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nikki-haley-praise-jared-kushner-ivanka-resign-2018-10

Oct. 12

A Turkish judge ordered American pastor Andrew Brunson be released and sentenced to time served. Brunson was arrested in October 2016 and was detained for 18 months before being charged by the Turkish government with being connected to outlawed Kurdish groups and opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of orchestrating the coup attempt.

Oct. 13

US pastor flies home after release from Turkish jail

https://middle-east-online.com/en/us-pastor-flies-home-after-release-turkish-jail

>>3554444

see >>3554451

Tuesday, October 9

The Washington Post - for whom Khashoggi wrote columns - reports that US intelligence had intercepted communications of Saudi officials planning to abduct the prominent journalist.

"Saudis wanted to lure Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia and lay hands on him there," the Post quoted a person familiar with the information as saying.

The US Department of State says it wasn't tipped off about such an operation.

The United Kingdom issues its first statement on Khashoggi's disappearance and demands "urgent answers".

The French foreign ministry also issues a statement on their website, saying it is closely following developments in Khashoggi's case.

Saudi Arabia agrees to let Turkish authorities search the consulate.

English-language state broadcaster TRT World says Turkish officials believe the Saudis may have taken the consulate's CCTV footage with them when they returned to the kingdom.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/jamal-khashoggi-case-timeline-181017155740442.html

Other events occurring

October 9

– Nikki Haley unexpectley announces that she will resign at the end of the year.

She calls Jared Kushner a ‘hidden genius that nobody understands’.

https://www.businessinsider.com/nikki-haley-praise-jared-kushner-ivanka-resign-2018-10

Oct. 12

A Turkish judge ordered American pastor Andrew Brunson be released and sentenced to time served. Brunson was arrested in October 2016 and was detained for 18 months before being charged by the Turkish government with being connected to outlawed Kurdish groups and opposition cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused of orchestrating the coup attempt.

Oct. 13

US pastor flies home after release from Turkish jail

https://middle-east-online.com/en/us-pastor-flies-home-after-release-turkish-jail

>>3554451

>October 9 – Nikki Haley unexpectley announces that she will resign at the end of the year.She calls Jared Kushner a ‘hidden genius that nobody understands’.

oct 12 - hit piece on Kushner

WASHINGTON (JTA) — In March, Saudi Arabia was on the brink of a new age of modernity. At the epicenter of the transformation were Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser.

But allegations this week that bin Salman — or MBS, as he is known — ordered the brazen murder of a dissident Saudi journalist in Istanbul, Turkey, have roiled the prince’s reputation as a modernizer.

So where does that leave Kushner, who cultivated a close friendship with MBS in part to advance Kushner’s efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks? Does Kushner counsel the president to distance the United States from Saudi Arabia? Or does he wait out the storm and return to the bromance when things are quieter?

Despite some favorable media coverage at the time of his last U.S. visit in March, much reporting suggested — even before the disappearance in Istanbul last week of Jamal Khashoggi, a permanent resident of the United States — that MBS’s reforms were more show than substance.

Yes, women could drive, but the activists who helped bring about the change were languishing in jail. Yes, he seemed ready for closer relations with Israel, while also bombing Yemen into submission, with little regard for civilian casualties. Yes, the extended Saudi royal family seemed on board with his changes, but maybe a period of imprisonment and torture in 2017 had something to do with that.

With the Khashoggi crisis in full bloom, the Trump administration is scrambling for a strategy. Trump himself is wary of penalizing a nation that spends big money on U.S. arms.

“I don’t like stopping massive amounts of money that’s being poured into our country on — I know they’re talking about different kinds of sanctions,” he said Thursday, referring to moves in Congress to sanction Saudi Arabia, “but they’re spending $110 billion on military equipment and on things that create jobs, like jobs and others, for this country.”

Saudi Arabia also figures large in Trump administration plans to isolate Iran.

At the center of the U.S.-Saudi relationship is Kushner, whom Trump has tasked with relaunching the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. The drive for a peace deal is what ostensibly brought Kushner and MBS together, but their relationship has broadened to include arms sales and regional strategy making.

Here are five key moments in the Kushner-MBS bromance.

cont

https://www.jta.org/2018/10/12/news-opinion/5-key-moments-in-the-jared-kushner-saudi-prince-mohammed-bromance

>>3554532

Open arms and an arms deal

One result of the closeness was a major shift: A president’s inaugural trip has traditionally been to a neighbor, Canada or Mexico. Trump instead first headed to Saudi Arabia, in May 2017, and Kushner was instrumental in setting the agenda — so instrumental that he says he got a rabbi’s permission to join his father-in-law on the Shabbat flight. (Which rabbi? That’s still a mystery.)

The trip went off smoothly — remember that glowing orb Trump and MBS’s dad touched together? And Trump signed a $110 billion arms sale deal with the country.

That Lebanon business

Kushner visited with MBS in Saudi Arabia in October 2017, supposedly to discuss advance of the Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. A week or so later Saad Hariri, the Lebanese prime minister, turned up in Saudi Arabia to resign, citing the overweening influence in his country of Hezbollah, the Shiite militia aligned with Iran.

It was a bizarre moment, and soon Hariri was back in Lebanon having rescinded his resignation. What happened?

Hariri has close business and family relations in Saudi Arabia, and MBS may have coerced his resignation as a means of sowing chaos in Lebanon, which he reportedly hoped would spark a punishing Israeli assault on Hezbollah. No one told the Israelis and they were not game to be Saudi Arabia’s proxy in its longstanding dispute with Iran.

Did Kushner give MBS a green light? They chatted until 4 a.m. during the visit. We may never know what they discussed, but the proximity (and secrecy) of his visit so close to the Lebanon fiasco led to speculation that Kushner winked at MBS’s maneuvering. The crown prince arrested a bunch of his extended family at around the same time. That was the second round of arrests; the first was in June, soon after the Trump visit. Making matters murkier, Trump praised the prince for the arrests in a tweet.

That peace deal

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was summoned to Saudi Arabia the same month as Hariri, November 2017. What was said was not clear, but according to subsequent reports, MBS pressed Abbas to accept Kushner’s terms for a peace deal that would comprise a Palestinian quasi state with its capital in Jerusalem’s suburbs, as opposed to the city itself.

Abbas reportedly declined, and Saudi statements denied that MBS had ever embraced such a proposal.

One year later …

A year after their snowbound bromance began, MBS was back in the United States for what was to be a turning point in the U.S.-Saudi relationship. He met with Trump, and Kushner helped organize a busy itinerary for the prince, including stops in high-tech centers on the East and West coasts to talk investment. MBS and his modernization proposals received glowing attention from influential columnists.

Marring the visit was the revelation, first reported at the time by The Intercept, that MBS told Persian Gulf buddies that he had Kushner “in his pocket.”

Is that the case? The Khashoggi mystery is not going away, and we may learn more soon.

>>3554444

If Nikki did anything, she signaled to the cabal that it was time for them to do a massive hit on Kushner because Kushner was having massive success in bringing peace to Mid EAst.

This Khashogge isn't just about taking down MbS and Trump but they are taking out Kushner, too.

Nikki called him a genius who was producing.

>>3554546

BEST MOVIE EVER!!!!!

DESANTIS DEBATE TONITE!!

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>>3554700

DOES THIS BRIDGE FIT ANY DROPS?