The visit by the Saudi ruler to D.C. occasioned the media dragging out the tired Qatari influence campaign about Jamal Khashoggi. Trump replied briefly on the question about the dead Qatari agent that “things happen.”
That’s probably two words more than Khashoggi deserves.
Since the media wants to roll out the same lies again, let’s recap.
1. Jamal Khashoggi wasn’t a ‘journalist’. He was a Jihadist.
In high school, Jamal Khashoggi had a good friend. His name was Osama bin Laden.
“We were hoping to establish an Islamic state anywhere,” Khashoggi reminisced about their time together in the Muslim Brotherhood. “We believed that the first one would lead to another, and that would have a domino effect which could reverse the history of mankind.”
The friendship endured with Jamal Khashoggi following Osama bin Laden to Afghanistan. Khashoggi credited Adel Batterjee, listed at one time as one of “the world’s foremost terrorist financiers” by the Treasury Department, with bringing him to Afghanistan to report on the fighting.
The media calls Khashoggi a journalist, but his writings from 80s Afghanistan read as Jihadist propaganda with titles like, “Arab Mujahadeen in Afghanistan II: Exemplifies the Unity of Islamic Ummah”.
And when Osama bin Laden set up Al Qaeda, he called Khashoggi with the details.
When the other 19 hijackers perpetrated the attacks of September 11, Khashoggi wrote that the Saudis would not “give in” to American “demands” for “unconditional condemnation” and “total cooperation”.
2. Khashoggi didn’t even write his own articles. They were written for him by Qatar.
3. Jamal Khashoggi wasn’t a reformer. He was an Islamist working with Qatar and more Jihadist elements in the Saudi power bloc to push Saudi Arabia back in time. That’s the opposite of reform.
I’m not a fan of the Saudi regime, but had Khashoggi and his backers achieved their goal, things would be much worse and much closer to Al Qaeda territory.
The world is better off with Jamal Khashoggi dead.
