Oct 7, 2018

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//medium.com/@aqpk/khashoggi-an-intricate-web-of-connections-and-assassinations-in-turkey-e739f05ef2e2

"The story of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is intertwined with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar, and Turkey’s ruling AK Party.

It could be another chapter in the of spate of unexplained assassinations in Turkey since 2015.

No story symbolizes Middle East’s dirty politics right now more than Kashoggi’s fate, which is not confirmed yet.

Turkey and the western media are convinced he was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. No less than President Erdogan of Turkey has come out in Kashoggi’s support. Turkish Police is unofficially leaking to the media that Khashoggi was “dismembered” by a 15-member Saudi death squad that smuggled him out in pieces.

But then there’s also this: Khashoggi was killed when he planned to end his opposition to King Salman, end his self-imposed exile, and return home.

In the days before the incident, he changed his tone on the Saudi government.

One day before his disappearance, a Saudi user asked him on Twitter: “Your tone has changed, have you become soft on Saudi Arabia?”

Khashoggi replied: “Dear Abdullah, it’s my home and my people..”.

Saudi Arabia is convinced Khashoggi was about to divulge information on links between Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, Turkey’s ruling AK Party, Qatar and underground Brotherhood cells inside Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Prince Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud wrote this in a tweet: “Khashoggi wanted to return home, they became scared he would expose them, so Qatar rulers eliminated him.”

Kashoggi, 59, was planning to marry his Turkish girlfriend. He was close to the Saudi royal family during the days when the kingdom was divided into power centers under the various branches of the royal family. After taking over, King Salman eliminated power centers within the House of Saud to stabilize the country, bring young royals forward and simplify succession."

"Khashoggi is no ordinary journalist or dissident. He insisted in all his interviews he did not oppose the Saudi royal family. He was the cousin of Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi. Princess Diana’s lover Dodi Fayed was his nephew. He was practically part of the Saudi aristocracy, somewhat like the Bin Laden family and their notorious rebel son: Osama.

Did Khashoggi know too much? Is he really kidnapped and alive in Riyadh? Or was he eliminated because he decided to return home?"

The real life version of Murder on the Orient Express is playing out in Istanbul."