How are things in Yemen?

[C-Mag]

As far as Yemen, we have no real interest in Yemen, Trump got cucked by the House of Saud on this.

The Saudis had to have their Vietnam. All the videos of destroyed Abrams tanks in Yemen just show it isn't about the equipment, but the actual fighting capabilities of those manning the equipment.

Trump got cucked when he put idiot-Jared to handle Middle East, the Arabs played that totally clueless sucker for all the money. Heck, we nearly saw Saudi-Arabia and UAE going at war with their GCC "ally" Qatar. Of course, Qatar has been quite hyper active in it's foreign policy and has irritated the Saudis. But anyway, the so-called allies of the US are totally in dissarray.

I agree Lil Kush has no Fucking Business representing us in the ME or anywhere fucking else except maybe Manhattan. The Nepotism of the Trump Whitehouse bothers me, but it's really not that fucking different from other admins either.

[pineapplemike]

gotta be John Oliver's best work in years, he managed to avoid Trump pretty well for atleast 75% of the video

[pineapplemike]

It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die, a Turkish source who has listened in full to an audio recording of the Saudi journalist's last moments told Middle East Eye.

Khashoggi was dragged from the Consul General’s office at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and onto the table of his study next door, the Turkish source said.

Horrendous screams were then heard by a witness downstairs, the source said.

"The consul himself was taken out of the room. There was no attempt to interrogate him. They had come to kill him,” the source told MEE.

The screaming stopped when Khashoggi - who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on 2 October - was injected with an as yet unknown substance.

Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy, who has been identified as the head of forensic evidence in the Saudi general security department, was one of the 15-member squad who arrived in Ankara earlier that day on a private jet.

Tubaigy began to cut Khashoggi’s body up on a table in the study while he was still alive, the Turkish source said.

The killing took seven minutes, the source said.

As he started to dismember the body, Tubaigy put on earphones and listened to music. He advised other members of the squad to do the same.

“When I do this job, I listen to music. You should do [that] too,” Tubaigy was recorded as saying, the source told MEE.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/excl ... -829291552

so whats the word on this guy anyway? no mention anywhere on MHF? seems pretty fucked up, i don't like how favorable trump is to saudi arabia

[SuburbanFarmer]

It took seven minutes for Jamal Khashoggi to die, a Turkish source who has listened in full to an audio recording of the Saudi journalist's last moments told Middle East Eye.

Khashoggi was dragged from the Consul General’s office at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and onto the table of his study next door, the Turkish source said.

Horrendous screams were then heard by a witness downstairs, the source said.

"The consul himself was taken out of the room. There was no attempt to interrogate him. They had come to kill him,” the source told MEE.

The screaming stopped when Khashoggi - who was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on 2 October - was injected with an as yet unknown substance.

Salah Muhammad al-Tubaigy, who has been identified as the head of forensic evidence in the Saudi general security department, was one of the 15-member squad who arrived in Ankara earlier that day on a private jet.

Tubaigy began to cut Khashoggi’s body up on a table in the study while he was still alive, the Turkish source said.

The killing took seven minutes, the source said.

As he started to dismember the body, Tubaigy put on earphones and listened to music. He advised other members of the squad to do the same.

“When I do this job, I listen to music. You should do [that] too,” Tubaigy was recorded as saying, the source told MEE.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/excl ... -829291552

so whats the word on this guy anyway? no mention anywhere on MHF? seems pretty fucked up, i don't like how favorable trump is to saudi arabia

Hopefully, that’s changing. Trump (publicly, at least) is threatening to remove aid from them over this.

Of course, he’s not stopping our arms sales..

[Martin Hash]

I don’t know what to say?

The rules have changed about where you are safe? Poisoned in your home by Russians; shot in the back at work after releasing Hillary’s emails; chopped into pieces during an interview with your consulate. Jesus, has it always been this bad and we just didn’t know it?

[Speaker to Animals]

Jesus, has it always been this bad and we just didn’t know it?

Pretty much: yeah.

A lot of this stuff was just not reported on much until recently. This has been going on since the cold war.

[TheReal_ND]

Tubaigy began to cut Khashoggi’s body up on a table in the study while he was still alive, the Turkish source said.

Metal af

[SuburbanFarmer]

Jesus, has it always been this bad and we just didn’t know it?

Pretty much: yeah.

A lot of this stuff was just not reported on much until recently. This has been going on since the cold war.

No way to know, unless you post a source.

In the absence of knowledge otherwise, it certainly looks like a new fad.

[clubgop]

Jesus, has it always been this bad and we just didn’t know it?

Pretty much: yeah.

A lot of this stuff was just not reported on much until recently. This has been going on since the cold war.

No way to know, unless you post a source.

In the absence of knowledge otherwise, it certainly looks like a new fad.

Because you haven't been paying attention.

Take this and all Turkish sources with a grain of salt people. Remember Erdogan has every reason to play this up and lie about it almost as much as the Saudi's.

[BjornP]

The media lapped up the "reformer" Crown Prince narrative up like starved dogs untill fairly recently, yet SA has executed dissidents before. Can't believe anyone is shocked by this. As for the credibility of the Turkish government, no, Erdogan is not credible by himself, but it's not like SA and Turkey has been major rivals.. I think this case is genuinely Erdogan being outraged at the lack of "disrespect" shown by the SA regime on Turkish soil, making them go public with it. Had SA killed the guy in some discreet fashion, and maybe run it by Erdogan first, there might not be a story at all.

Anyway, Trump defending the SA and the Crown Prince's reputation and apparantly thinks making comparisons to the Kavanaugh hearing is the way to best do so:

https://www.apnews.com/6ef4045b710b411086e93967eb8ffc4f