Yes, they shouldn’t accept any donations from the Saudis until they have a good explanation for the presence of that bone saw in the equipment of those 15 Saudi interrogators who worked over Khashoggi and ended up carting his dismembered body out of their embassy in hand bags. They might have just mixed up their ceremonial dagger with a bone saw, after all.
The Brookings Institute has also acted quickly in response to reports from the Turkish government that Saudi officials allegedly killed and dismembered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi’s Istanbul consulate. On Friday, Brookings terminated a research grant it has with Saudi Arabia.
OK, this is now the funniest thing I’ve read all morning.
After decades of playing footsie, Brookings terminated a research grant!
They’re quaking in Riyadh, I tell you, quaking.
I’m not clear on why you know so much about bone saws.
I read a lot…and I used to watch Dexter.
Weird, I would expect that most consulates would have incinerators for documents, and in this case dissidents.
Small steps, Young Grasshopper…
Was Brookings also taking money from N. Korea and Russia. Jesus. It really is a time to be picking sides and no one with a soul would choose to align himself with any of the nations of the ME and S. and C. Asia.
Yes, in my limited experience of the world, the good guys don’t often have bags of money laying about and, therefore, if you’re in charge of fund-raising for the likes of Brookings, your having a soul (or not suppressing it) can put you at a distinct disadvantage!
TPM shouldn’t use “Cutting Off” in the title to this story.
Probably real emeralds, too.
This is laughably small to the Saudis but I can’t help but think about the sanctions against South Africa. There’s not much love here for KSA as it is, and they may find there are some limits to what their money can buy.
alternate: Refusal of Money Cuts at the Sinews of Saudi-American Relations