Agnes Callamard is the UN’s special rapporteur who issued a scathing report about the Saudi Arabian government’s involvement in the brutal murder of reporter Jamal Khashoggi inside a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, saying that there was evidence of high-level involvement in what was a pre-meditated murder and that the role of crown Mohammed bin Salman’s needed to be investigated.
The World‘s reporter Shirin Jaafari scored an interview with Callamard and asked her about the evidence that she saw and how she arrived at her conclusions. Callamard was remarkably frank and forthcoming and the seven-minute interview is illuminating and also damning in its portrayal of how the Saudi government behaved.
Callamard describes what she heard on the audio recordings that were obtained by the Turkish government, where the Saudis casually discuss the planned murder. It is quite extraordinary how coldly and clinically the Saudi officials discussed the planned murder.
It is quite extraordinary how coldly and clinically the Saudi officials discussed the planned murder.
Saudi officials can be like that. They are a bit like the Gestapo or CIA torturers.
Your run-of-the-mill Saudi is about the same as your run-of-the-mill Canadian. Friendly, helpful, and the young men drive like lunatics. They would blend into Toronto in an instant.
And stupidly. Standard sort of egotistical criminal type figuring that nobody’s actually caught them or called them out yet, so obviously nobody’s going to catch them this time. While they discuss things within listening range of other foreign operatives.
(This is a reconstructed cross-post from poopyhead’s current Political Madness All the Time thread.)
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