Saudi Uproar Business leaders are starting to properly react to the disappearance and reported death of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. First, Richard Branson pressed pause on two tourism projects in Saudi Arabia and suspended talks about Saudi investments in his space ventures, and now Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has pulled out of a major business conference in the kingdom, whose sovereign wealth fund is a major investor in Uber. Viacom CEO Bob Bakish and Arianna Huffington have also withdrawn from the Future Investment Initiative shindig, and the New York Times has pulled its sponsorship. CNN
There used to be some jet-setting multi-billionaire Saudi arms dealer with the same last name. Adnan Khashoggi. Cat died last year. Probably hung out with Trump back in the day I bet. I don't know if thats a common last name or not... maybe this guy is related. I'm sure a billionaire arms dealer from Saudi Arabia pissed off more than his fair share of folks along the way. Dirty business. Lots of $'s, lots of secrets.
I was reading Wiki about Adnan... Check this out... His yacht, the Nabila, was the largest in the world at the time and was used in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again. After Khashoggi ran into financial problems he sold the yacht to the Sultan of Brunei, who in turn sold it for $29 million to Donald Trump, who sold it for $20 million[11] to Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal as part of a deal to keep his Taj Mahal casino out of bankruptcy.
I believe his demise was the "Iran-Contra" scandal. Although he had been world's richest at one point, at the time of his death he had not been a billionaire for a decade or more. Not to mention his life long rivalry with his former brother in law Mohamed Al-Fayed ( Dodi's father). Looks like missing journalist Jamal was Adnan's nephew.
Malcom Nance last night said Trump would have been informed of the incident through flash traffic 5 minutes after Turkey's intel found out. Its funny how the first thing Trump brought up yesterday was regarding weapon sales. Adnan made his fortune brokering weapon deals between the U.S. and Saudi. He was alleged to be an asset for the Mossad.... worked with our CIA.... yachts, jets, models, cocaine... it was a different time, you could get away anything and money was no object. Bribes and graft abounded I'm sure. Pfff.... it was the wild west for our defense contractors. Hookers, blow, private jets, vacations and yachts. What a deal. So there's dirt there. Saudi dirt. It may be 30 years old.... but I'd bet money his nephew knew things and threatened to out the wrong person about something. They don't send a hit squad like that and blatantly kill someone with no regard to repercussions from the international community for just writing some op-ed about dissidents. He got killed for what he knew.... not what he wrote. Trump and Jared will give their friends a pass.