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US Blames Bin Salman For Khashoggi. Will Punish Some Other People
More than two years after dissident journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the US is finally getting around to doing something about it.
Only not really.
Khashoggi, you'll recall, entered the consulate in October of 2018 in order to obtain paperwork for a marriage. He never came out. Or at least not in one piece, and certainly not alive.
Within hours of his disappearance, every intelligence agency from Ankara to Moscow to
Brings to mind the classic Jerry Tarkanian quote: “The NCAA is so mad at Kentucky, they’re going to give Cleveland State another year of probation.”
Aren’t you better off not doing anything as opposed to picking two guys out of a hat and punishing them?