Holy shit, that’s an old-style mafia THREAT. “Of course we’d hate for anything like that to happen to any of you, or anyone else in his family. Or his friends.”
Murdering motherfuckers.
It’s absolutely ghoulish the way the Saudi government is coercing Khashoggi’s son into these ritual displays of reconciliation. If the condolences were even remotely genuine, they would grant him an exit visa. Instead, he remains trapped in SA, where he knows he has to keep his mouth shut and pretend to accept their phony bullshit – or else.
And since they’ve been our trusted allies for some 85 years now, it shows the complete moral bankruptcy of US foreign relations under both Parties, save for Carter’s brief foray into a focus on human rights…
How do you say “Plata o plomo” in Arabic? That’s the deal.
If the Khashoggi family members refused this honor they’d likely meet the same fate.
This sounds like a sick joke:
You know that very unfortunate murder of your father? Well, if we had anything to do with it we’d be sorry. Oh, by the way – you’re still not free to leave the Kingdom.
It’s clear that MBS revels in torture. Physical, psychological, whichever. Sick bastard.
Did they have a choice?
Please, tell the world how truly upset I am about this. I don’t usually get caught. I mean, condolences.