![]() Obama lavished hospitality at the White House on a host of bloody autocrats – from Gambia, Burkina Faso and Cameroon – before we even recall Suharto, whose death squads killed up to half a million people, and Hosni Mubarak, whose secret police sometimes raped their prisoners and who sanctioned the hanging of hundreds of Islamists without proper trials and his ultimate successorįield Marshal-President al-Sissi, who has around 60,000 political prisoners locked up in Egypt and whose cops appear to have tortured a young Italian student to death. We are all waiting for Rodrigo Duterte to take up his own invitation. Trump has infamously met Kim Jong-un and invited him to the White House. Yet when at least one recent US presidential incumbent of that high office is guilty of war crimes – in Iraq – and the deaths of tens of thousands of Arabs, how come American senators are huffing and puffing about just one man, Mohammed bin Salman, who (for a moment, let us set aside the Yemen war) is only being accused of ordering the murder and dismemberment of one single Arab?Īfter all, world leaders – and US presidents themselves - have always had rather a soft spot for mass murderers and those who should face war crimes indictments. So what on earth is going on here? Perhaps the “world’s stage” of which Martinez spoke was the White House – an appropriate phrase, when you come to think about it - where the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia has been no stranger. And this from a man who constantly defended Israel after its slaughter of the innocents in Gaza. The US, he told us, must “send a clear and unequivocal message that such actions are not acceptable on the world’s stage.” The “action”, of course, is the murder of Khashoggi. ![]() Here’s Democrat Senator Bob Martinez this week. Why play music through the earphones of the murderers?īut still it goes on. Testimony suggests that mass rape followed by mass torture did for their enemies in Vietnam. If the CIA could sign off on mass murder in Vietnam, why shouldn’t an Arab dictator do the same on a far smaller scale? True, I can’t imagine the Americans went in for bone saws. In spook language, Khashoggi was merely “terminated with maximum prejudice”. Which it did.Ī generation ago, the CIA’s “Operation Phoenix” torture and assassination programme in Vietnam went way beyond the imaginations of the Saudi intelligence service. Except, of course, that the CIA’s victims lived to be tortured another day – indeed several more days – while Jamal Khashoggi’s asphyxiation was intended to end his life. After all, the desperate screams of a man who believes he is drowning and the desperate screams of a man who believes he is suffocating can’t be very different. ![]() US government leaks suggest that Haspel knew all about the shrieks of pain, the suffering of Arab men who believed they were drowning, the desperate pleading for life from America’s victims in these sanctuaries of torment in and after 2002. CIA Director Gina Haspel, who was happy to sign off on the torture of her Muslim captives in the secret American prison of Thailand, obviously knew what she was talking about when she testified about Mohammed bin Salman and the agony of Jamal Khashoggi. The Independent: Can I be the only one – apart from his own sycophants – to find the sight of America’s finest Republicans and Democrats condemning the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia for murdering Jamal Khashoggi a bit sickening? “Crazy”. The big-spending New York Mets are expected to at least take a flier on signing Ohtani, and some assume he's essentially already decided to join the Los Angeles Dodgers following the campaign.Spare me America's tears for Jamal Khashoggi – this excuse for Trump-bashing ignores the CIA's past crimes Some would suggest that the Angels even winning this year's World Series, which seems unlikely as of the final days of July, is not worth losing Ohtani to free agency considering a plethora of insiders have hinted since this past winter that Moreno won't give the 29-year-old up to $600M total that it could take to win the upcoming bidding war. ![]() Los Angeles entered Thursday's MLB action four games back in the race for a wild-card spot but had won seven of 10 games coming off the All-Star break at that time. The injury-plagued Angels (52-49) probably are still multiple weeks away from getting both Mike Trout (broken bone in his left hand) and Anthony Rendon (deep bone bruise in his shin) back but nevertheless became buyers by acquiring starting pitcher Lucas Giolito and reliever Reynaldo Lopez late Wednesday night. ![]()
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