Saudis hacked Amazon chief’s phone, says security consultant | Financial Times
▻https://www.ft.com/content/53a4861c-5359-11e9-91f9-b6515a54c5b1
Mr de Becker claimed the Saudi government “has been very intent on harming Jeff Bezos since last October”, due to the Post’s “relentless coverage” of the death of Khashoggi, a critic of the kingdom.
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Israël : création d’une commission d’enquête sur la disparition de 43 étudiants en 2014
Jean-Louis Trintignant va nformer des parlementaires sur le meurtre de Khashoggi
Le chef de la CIA : « je suis un raté qui a eu beaucoup de chance ».
CIA director Haspel caught in Khashoggi briefing tug-of-war - CNNPolitics
▻https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/27/politics/cia-haspel-senate-briefing/index.html
Another congressional aide said Tuesday that the White House is attempting to “hide” Haspel in an attempt to prevent her from sharing details that may not align with its public response to Khashoggi’s murder.
“If they were confident in their story they would send her to the US Senate and have her brief US senators. But the fact that they are hiding her and not allowing her to tell the Senate what she knows ... it really tells you all you need to know,” the aide said.
But Bolton denied claims that the White House was preventing Haspel from participating in the briefing, responding “certainly not” when asked about the reports.
Le meurtre de Khashoggi – À l’intersection complexe de trois points d’inflexion. par Alastair Crooke
▻https://www.les-crises.fr/le-meurtre-de-khashoggi-a-lintersection-complexe-de-trois-points-dinflexi
‘Tell Your Boss’: Recording Is Seen to Link Saudi Crown Prince More Strongly to Khashoggi Killing - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/world/middleeast/jamal-khashoggi-killing-saudi-arabia.html
The recording, shared last month with the C.I.A. director, Gina Haspel, is seen by intelligence officials as some of the strongest evidence linking Prince Mohammed to the killing of Mr. Khashoggi, a Virginia resident and Washington Post columnist whose death prompted an international outcry.
While the prince was not mentioned by name, American intelligence officials believe “your boss” was a reference to Prince Mohammed. Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, one of 15 Saudis dispatched to Istanbul to confront Mr. Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate there, made the phone call and spoke in Arabic, the people said.
Turkish intelligence officers have told American officials they believe that Mr. Mutreb, a security officer who frequently traveled with Prince Mohammed, was speaking to one of the prince’s aides. While translations of the Arabic may differ, the people briefed on the call said Mr. Mutreb also said to the aide words to the effect of “the deed was done.”
“A phone call like that is about as close to a smoking gun as you are going to get,” said Bruce O. Riedel, a former C.I.A. officer now at the Brookings Institution. “It is pretty incriminating evidence.”
Limogeage d’Al-Assiri : « Mauvaise nouvelle pour Israël » - Actuarabe - Al-Akhbar – Lundi 22 octobre 2018
▻http://actuarabe.com/le-limogeage-dal-assiri-mauvaise-nouvelle-pour-israel
(...à Mais les médias ne sont pas tous demeurés aussi silencieux, notamment suite aux conséquences internes en Arabie saoudite et le limogeage du sous-directeur des services de renseignement, Ahmed Al-Assiri.
Moav Vardi, l’analyste des affaires internationales sur la dixième chaîne, a décrit cette mesure comme « une très mauvaise nouvelle pour Israël ». Il a ainsi révélé les liens solides entre Al-Assiri et ses homologues israéliens, ainsi que le niveau de coopération entre Riyad et Tel-Aviv. Sur son compte Twitter, il a déclaré : « de nombreuses personnes ont perdu cette nuit un allié précieux ».
De son côté, le journaliste Ben Kaspit a écrit dans un article pour The Monitor qu’en coulisse, Israël se tenait aux côtés de l’Arabie saoudite, pour qu’elle « digère » l’assassinat de Khashoggi, sans autre choix possible. Il a rapporté ces propos d’un dirigeant israélien : « La lutte contre l’Iran rend tout insignifiant. La sécurité nationale d’Israël et la menace iranienne sont nos priorités. Les affaires internes de l’Arabie saoudite nous concernent moins actuellement ». La source a ensuite ajouté : « Si cela s’était passé sous Obama, il est clair que l’administration se serait retournée contre les Saoudiens en moins de deux ». Donald Trump a une approche opposée : « Le Président Trump comprend que le problème iranien est plus important et la démocratie devra attendre ». Ces déclarations confirment les propos tenus à plusieurs reprises par le chef du gouvernement israélien, Benyamin Netanyahou, sur la coopération sécuritaire croissante avec de grands Etats arabes et musulmans, sans les nommer. Elles interviennent quelques jours après une rencontre entre le chef d’état-major de l’armée d’occupation, Gadi Eizenkot, et son homologue saoudien, Fayad Al-Ruwaili, lors d’une conférence réunissant les chefs des armées de plusieurs pays aux Etats-Unis. (...)
Western hypocrisy: Khashoggi and Murtaja two deceased journalists but the world will only remember one – Middle East Monitor
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20181030-western-hypocrisy-khashoggi-and-murtaja-two-deceased-jou
Yaser Murtaja was a Palestinian photojournalist who had gone to the Gaza fence with Israel to cover the second Friday of the Great Return March. He was killed by an IDF sniper on 7 April. There was modest coverage of his death coming on the second Friday of the Great Return March. The world was troubled by the deliberate targeting by highly trained Israeli snipers of Palestinian civilians who posed no threat, but Western governments were hesitant about criticising Israel for targeting men, women, children, medics and journalists. The young medic, Razan Al-Najjar was shot and killed weeks later while tending to the wounded at the Gaza fence. At the same time, Nikki Haley was plotting to scupper a UN Security Council resolution to protect Palestinian civilians.
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Le gendre de Trump fait tout pour sauver Ben Salman, par Gilbert Achcar dans Al-Quds Al-Arabi - Actuarabe
▻http://actuarabe.com/le-gendre-de-trump-fait-tout-pour-sauver-ben-salman
L’ensemble des médias internationaux ont mis en avant les échecs de Ben Salman à la suite de ses actions inconsidérées et l’assassinat de Khashoggi n’est que la goutte d’eau qui a fait déborder le vase. Mais le Prince héritier n’a pas pris en compte le fait que les actes que peut se permettre un dirigeant autoritaire comme Vladimir Poutine ne peuvent pas être commis aussi facilement par un dirigeant otage des Etats-Unis. Personne ne doute de la responsabilité directe de Poutine dans la tentative d’assassinat de l’ancien espion russe en Grande-Bretagne il y a huit mois, mais cette action n’a pas fait trembler le trône du nouvel empereur de Russie. Ce dernier ne dépend de personne et possède tous les éléments constitutifs du pouvoir. Il a même entre ses mains les éléments constitutifs de la puissance internationale, dont il se sert pour soutenir par exemple la famille Assad en Syrie.
Saudi operative wore Khashoggi’s clothes, acted as decoy to fool Turkish police – report — RT World News
▻https://www.rt.com/news/441922-khashoggi-clothing-embassy-turkey
“Khashoggi’s clothes were probably still warm when Madani put them on,” the senior Turkish official told CNN.
Madani, 57, is of similar age and build to Khashoggi, 59, and was reportedly brought in as a decoy to throw Turkish investigators off the killers’ trail.
#khashoggi toujours aussi gore.
Jonathan Cook sur Twitter : "Awful as Khashoggi’s murder was, this is pure, hagiographic tripe from Jonathan Freedland. Khashoggi wasn’t a ’reformer’ or ’bright light’ - he was a long-time insider and apologist for this ’morally repugant’ regime. A Saudi version of Freedland, in fact / Twitter
▻https://mobile.twitter.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/1053565164916826112
▻https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/19/saudi-arabia-jamal-khashoggi-life-mission-brutal-regime
L’#Arabie_Saoudite reconnaît la mort de Khashoggi, la presse saoudienne cherche les coupables | Courrier international
▻https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/larabie-saoudite-reconnait-la-mort-de-khashoggi-la-presse-sao
“Tous ceux qui ont versé dans l’affaire Khashoggi seront passés au fil de l’#épée de la justice”, ose même le site saoudien Sabq, ce qui fait dire à Madawi Al-Rachid, opposante saoudienne vivant en exil que “même en parlant de justice, les médias saoudiens, propriétés d’État, parlent d’épée. C’est une part intégrale de la gouvernance au royaume saoudien.”
« Modéré » #sans_vergogne
Why the Khashoggi murder is a disaster for Israel -
The grisly hit-job on Khashoggi has implications far beyond its exposure of the Saudi Crown Prince as brutal and reckless. In Jerusalem and D.C., they’re mourning their whole strategic concept for the Mideast - not least, for countering Iran
Daniel B. Shapiro
Oct 17, 2018
▻https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-why-the-khashoggi-murder-is-a-disaster-for-israel-1.6569996
For Israel, this sordid episode raises the prospects that the anchor of the new Middle East realities it has sought to promote - an Israeli-Sunni Arab coalition, under a U.S. umbrella, to check Iran and Sunni jihadists - cannot be counted upon.
And Israel must be careful how it plays its hand. There will, without question, be a U.S. response to Khashoggi’s murder, even if it is resisted by the Trump administration. It will not lead to a total dismantlement of the U.S.-Saudi alliance, but Congressional and public revulsion will have its price.
President Hassan Rouhani giving a speech on Iranian TV in Tehran on May 8, 2018.HO/AFP
The price could include significant restrictions on arms sales that had been contemplated. It is already leading key U.S. investors to distance themselves from the major development projects MBS has promoted. At a minimum, there will be no replay of the warm, PR-friendly visit by MBS to multiple U.S. cities last March, no more lionizing of him in the American press as a reformer who will reshape the Middle East.
Israel, which has a clear interest in keeping Saudi Arabia in the fold of U.S. allies to maximize the strategic alignment on Iran, will need to avoid becoming MBS’s lobbyist in Washington. Israel’s coordination with its partners in the region is still necessary and desirable. Simple realpolitik requires it. But there is a new risk of reputational damage from a close association with Saudi Arabia.
It won’t be easy for Israel to navigate these waters, as the Washington foreign policy establishment has quickly splintered into anti-Iran and anti-Saudi camps. The idea that the United States should equally oppose Iranian and Saudi brutality toward their peoples, and not let MBS’s crimes lead to a lessening of pressure on Iran over its malign regional activities, is in danger of being lost.
For Israelis, that may be the biggest blow in the fallout of Khashoggi’s murder. MBS, in his obsession with silencing his critics, has actually undermined the attempt to build an international consensus to pressure Iran.
The damage is broad. Trump may be an outlier. But what Member of Congress, what European leader, would be willing to sit with MBS for a consultation on Iran now?
That is the greatest evidence of MBS’s strategic blindness, and the damage will likely persist as long as he rules the kingdom.
Daniel B. Shapiro is Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Israel, and Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa in the Obama Administration. Twitter: @DanielBShapiro
Khashoggi case: CCTV disappears from Saudi consulate in Turkey | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/09/khashoggi-case-cctv-disappears-from-saudi-consulate-in-turkey
Security footage removed and Turkish staff told to go home on day missing journalist visits
Turkish Officials Say Khashoggi Was Killed on Order of Saudi Leadership - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/09/world/europe/jamal-khashoggi-turkey-saudi-arabia.html
Two and a half hours after [Khashoggi] entered the facility, six vehicles with diplomatic license plates pulled out, carrying 15 Saudi officials and intelligence officers, Sabah reported.
Two other vehicles, including a black Mercedes Vito van with darkened windows, went from the consulate to the consul’s residence about 200 yards away. Turkish employees of the residence had unexpectedly been told not to report for work that day, the newspaper said.
Sabah reported, without naming its sources, that police investigators suspected that Mr. Khashoggi was in the van.
Turkish police believe Saudi journalist was killed at consulate: sources | Reuters
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-politics-dissident-turkey/turkish-police-believe-saudi-journalist-was-killed-at-consulate-sources-idU
▻https://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20181006&t=2&i=1311983562&w=1200&r=LYNXNPEE950Q2
“The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate,” one Turkish official told Reuters.
The sources did not say how they believed the killing was carried out. Saudi Arabia’s consul-general told Reuters on Saturday his country was helping search for Khashoggi, and dismissed talk of his possible abduction.
Khashoggi, who has lived in self-imposed exile in Washington for the past year fearing retribution for his critical views on Saudi policies, entered the consulate on Tuesday to secure documentation for his forthcoming marriage, according to his fiancee, who waited outside. He has not been heard of since.
Quand ça devient vraiment trop évident, tu peux encore écrire : « alliance inhabituelle »…
▻http://www.rfi.fr/moyen-orient/20150405-syrie-etat-islamique-jihadistes-front-al-nosra-yarmouk-camp-palestinien
L’alliance inhabituelle entre le groupe Etat islamique et le Front al-Nosra, la branche syrienne d’al-Qaïda, a permis aux jihadistes de s’emparer de la quasi-totalité du camp palestinien de Yarmouk, composé de 18 000 habitants et situé à sept kilomètres environ du centre de Damas.
Oui, mais RFI c’est des enfants de chœur devant « Le Monde »
►http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2015/04/04/l-ei-s-empare-de-l-essentiel-du-camp-de-yarmouk-aux-portes-de-damas_4609788_
Le titre :
L’EI s’empare de l’essentiel du camp de Yarmouk aux portes de Damas.
Dans le contenu,
Depuis mercredi, l’EI attaque ce camp de réfugiés, affrontant des milices, dont celle d’Aknaf Baït Al-Makdis, un groupe de combattants anti-Assad,
C’est seulement après que vient,
L’OSDH, une organisation proche de l’opposition syrienne, indique que l’EI et le front Al-Nosra , émanation d’Al-Qaida, rivaux dans le reste de la Syrie, ont avancé au cours de la nuit.
De plus, ils sont aussi alliés dans le Qalamoun. Au moins.
Dans un article très peu cité (et pour cause), les Saoud se vantent ouvertement de soutenir al-Nusra et similaires
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/world/middleeast/saudis-make-own-moves-as-us-and-iran-talk.html
Mr. Khashoggi, the Saudi editor, argued that Saudi Arabia’s own campaign to push back against Iran without waiting for the Americans was showing signs of success. Saudi Arabian and Turkish sponsors, he said, had backed the coalition of jihadist groups that recently captured the Syrian city of Idlib in the first major victory in months against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
One participant in the coalition was the Nusra Front, the Syrian arm of Al Qaeda, a terrorist group in the eyes of the West. But members of the jihadi coalition “are the ones who captured Idlib, it is an important development, and I think we are going to see more of that,” Mr. Khashoggi said. “Coordination between Turkish and Saudi intelligence has never been as good as now.”
Via Patrick Cockburn
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/a-young-prince-may-cost-syria-and-yemen-dear-10156167.html
The Syrian government last week accused Turkey of helping thousands of jihadi fighters to reach Idlib and of jamming Syrian army telecommunications, which helped to undermine the defences of the city.
In the Middle East, our enemy’s enemy must be our friend
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/in-the-middle-east-our-enemys-enemy-must-be-our-friend-10169984.html
Saudi sources revealed that Saudi Arabia and Turkey had both given their backing to Jabhat al-Nusra and other extreme jihadis in seizing Idlib.
Saudi Arabia and other Sunni states seem intent on rebranding Jabhat al-Nusra and its clones as wholly different from Islamic State (Isis) and therefore acceptable as a potential ally.
Al-Nusra may not publicly revel in its own atrocities as does Isis, but otherwise it differs little from it in ideology and tactics.
Created by Isis in 2012, it split from the parent movement and fought a bloody inter-rebel civil war against it in early 2014, but today there are worrying signs of cooperation. According to accounts from the Syrian opposition, it was al-Nusra that allowed Isis fighters to take over in recent days most of Yarmouk Palestinian camp a few miles from the centre of Damascus .