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>>> Look into BCCI and a name you might be familiar with, Khoshoggi not the dismembered journalist by MBS, but his relative who was the arms dealer that sold hi
by gettodachoppa 3y ago
>>> Look into BCCI and a name you might be familiar with, Khoshoggi not the dismembered journalist by MBS, but his relative who was the arms dealer that sold his yacht to... donald trump. Who bragged about the purchase on nightly entertainment TV.
Damn, this is actually true. I just visited Wikipedia, and I did not expect what I learned there. I thought Jamal Kashoggi was just some journalist. I never looked into him.
Turns out:
-He worked at the Saudi equivalent of the CIA
-He's the cousin of Dodi Al Fayed (the billionnaire who died in the car crash with Princess Diana)
-He's the nephew of billionnaire arms dealer Adnan Kashoggi, who sold Donald Trump a $200M yacht
-His grandfather was the personal doctor of the king of Saudi Arabia
-Considering the amount of noise the US made about him, I also expected him to be a US citizen. But no, he wasn't even a US citizen. I've never in my whole life seen the US govt care this much about a foreigner dying abroad, even if they work for a US company.
-George Soros' Open Society Foundation sued the Saudi government over his death
I know HN is the sort of place where you get flagged for voicing your suspicions without linking some establishment-approved source that gives its blessing on a particular narrative. So I'll just say this: it feels to me me that this is a very surprising background for a mere journalist.
- coliveira 3y agoGood. Now go to wikipedia again and learn about Felix Sater, and you'll see that Trump was also collaborating with the CIA to make connections and business with the Russian oligarchs. The web goes deeper than you can imagine.
- samstave 3y agoJust wait until we see an AI crawler the masses can use... The next conspiracy will be AI code that is delivering information that cant be debunked regardless how (un)true. Thats the AI we fear.
- 2-718-281-828 3y agothis is crazy interesting. but what's can be hypothesized based on that. all of that is basically just circumstantial at that.
- samstave 3y agoOnly circumstatioal if you havent been paying attention over time, which is the point -- only TIME can give you context
- 2-718-281-828 3y agocan you be a bit more specific, please. the story is he got killed because he was human rights activist and that's also why the US cared about him (which is of course not the full story)