There is something that must be pointed out in the left’s diatribe about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi had strong ties to Osama bin Laden, the Muslim Brotherhood and was the employer of Obama spy Joseph Mifsud.
That is not the action of a journalist. It’s more likely, he was an intelligence agent. Aside from Iran, Saudi Arabia has no worse enemy that the Muslim Brotherhood, who has tried to overthrow the royal family for years in order to set up an Islamic regime. That does not excuse his murder but may provide more clarity as to why he was killed.
Can’t forget this: Joseph Mifsud was on Khashoogi’s payroll. This was no ordinary “journalist,” just like Mifsud was no ordinary “academic.” That Mifsud-Khashoogi connection is much deeper than many realize. I witnessed it in London.
— George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) November 20, 2018
But what CNN doesn’t report and what Khashoggi may have neglected to note is that when Khashoggi was with bin Laden in Afghanistan he was very much in sync with bin Laden, as noted in the Arab Weekly –
Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, couldn’t have imagined one of the other characters in his book was going to be at the centre of a huge political and diplomatic controversy, no less than the book’s central character, namely Osama Bin Laden.
The book was adapted for television as a series with the same title and tells the story of Al-Qaeda’s infamous attacks on New York and Washington. In one paragraph, Wright mentions a close friend of Bin Laden’s who shared the latter’s ambition to “establish an Islamic state anywhere.” That friend was Jamal Khashoggi. Both Bin Laden and Khashoggi were at the time active members of the Muslim Brotherhood and later Bin Laden would split from the Brotherhood to form with Abdullah Azzam Al-Qaeda, the most dangerous organisation in the world. Khashoggi, Bin Laden, and Azzam, were all the merry companions of the same extremist group.
On page 78 of his book, Wright quoted Khashoggi as saying that he and Bin Laden believed that “the first one [Islamic state] would lead to another, and that would have a domino effect which could reverse the history of mankind.” The noun phrase looming tower in the book’s title was taken from Surah An-Nisa in the Holy Quran and clearly refers to the attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York.
Also, you can discount the Democrats argument that Khashoggi was an American. He didn’t even have a green card. His trips to the US were done on a visitor’s visa.
Khashoggi is the one with the rocket launcher on his shoulder during his time with bin Laden.