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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump Jr. Boosts Smear Tying Missing Journalist Jamal Khashoggi to Islamic Terrorism
The presidents son, along with conservative media, are using Jamal Khashoggis interviews with Osama bin Laden to imply he supported Islamic terror.
With President Trump apparently reluctant to punish Saudi Arabia over Khashoggis alleged murder after he entered the Saudi embassy in Istanbul, conservative pundits have been straining to provide excuses for U.S. inaction.
Much of that effort has focused on claiming Khashoggi was a terrorist sympathizer, based on his ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and career covering terrorist groups and leaders, including Bin Laden.
The latest attack on Khashoggis reputation started Friday with Patrick Poole, a terrorism correspondent for conservative website PJ Media. Poole ran images from a 1988 article Khashoggi wrote showing Khashoggi holding a rocket-propelled grenade with fighters in Afghanistan opposing the Soviet Union.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-jr-boosts-smear-tying-missing-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-to-islamic-terrorism?ref=wrap
samnsara
(17,622 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)During the proxy war that Reagan engaged in with the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Bin Laden was a major mujahadeen general. They were U.S. allies at the time. When the Soviet Union retreated from Afghanistan, Reagan left a vacuum in Afghanistan that seeded the Taliban and Al Quaeda emergence. If these right wing nuts think killing a reporter was justified, then many that served in the Reagan Administration deserve worse IMO. Donny Two Scoops Jr. did not receive the best education.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Comes from the Saudis. So it won't work trying to defend them from "Islamic" terrorism since the ideology comes from them.
JCMach1
(27,559 posts)The time to frame political opponents in the Arab world.