Criticise the Saudis and you go home in pieces

stockhausen · 18 Oct 2018 at 09:02

MartinPrince said:
. . . In turn the Saudi's may have underestimated the reaction from the West though I'm sure they firmly believe that their ties and money links with the West will eventually hold sway but we will see.

I suspect that the Saudis knew that the reaction from the USA & UK would be along the lines of:

"Naughty, naughty; silly boys. Fancy placing an order for more weapons of indiscriminate destruction?"

stockhausen · 18 Oct 2018 at 09:44

ubersonic said:
. . .Well, (Iran was an ally and honoured customer of the USA) until they did something dodgy involving an embassy.

I think that you will find that the Americans and the British interfered in Iran long before the Embassy takeover - in the early 1950s I believe?

antijoke · 18 Oct 2018 at 14:19

Lol one of the suspects died in a car accident

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/saudi-suspect-in-khashoggi-case-dies-in-car-accident-report-138007

Not suspicious at all

Freakbro · 18 Oct 2018 at 14:24

antijoke said:
Lol one of the suspects died in a car accident

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/saudi-suspect-in-khashoggi-case-dies-in-car-accident-report-138007

Not suspicious at all

The other 14 men involved are going to be bricking it at the minute

dowie · 18 Oct 2018 at 14:28

Freakbro said:
The other 14 men involved are going to be bricking it at the minute

I suspect the people on the first flight are in the most danger, especially if they do go with the "interrogation gone wrong excuse" - the people on the second flight can then be portrayed as merely the cleanup team going in to sort out the mess caused by the "rogue" operation carried out by the first.

Some of the people involved are rather close to the ruling regime, they'll not want to bump off their best buds just the lower status guys.

Freakbro · 18 Oct 2018 at 15:01

dowie said:
I suspect the people on the first flight are in the most danger, especially if they do go with the "interrogation gone wrong excuse" - the people on the second flight can then be portrayed as merely the cleanup team going in to sort out the mess caused by the "rogue" operation carried out by the first.

Some of the people involved are rather close to the ruling regime, they'll not want to bump off their best buds just the lower status guys.

Yea, I was just being tongue in cheek

You never know, that might have been a genuine car accident....stranger things have happened....

dowie · 18 Oct 2018 at 15:02

Freakbro said:
Yea, I was just being tongue in cheek

You never know, that might have been a genuine car accident....stranger things have happened....

Quite possible, the standard of driving in the gulf states is a bit dubious!

Tefal · 18 Oct 2018 at 15:09

SPG said:
Frankly who cares..... nothing will change, they can crash the world economy in a blink, not that it would help them but they would do it to punish the interfering infidels......

Well if they tried that they'd be killed in a coup before they even announced the plans.

Tefal · 18 Oct 2018 at 15:13

Ayahuasca said:
Word is the Saudi's are in the process of producing a report saying he was accidentally killed via interrogation. That must be why they took a bone saw... just to scare him a little as it was sat on the polished metal table.

Bone saw wouldn't be all that much use in an I terrogation excdpt for fear factor.

If you put one on skin you'll just get a massage.

The whole point of them is they don't cut flesh

doodah · 18 Oct 2018 at 17:41

Liam Fox has pulled out of the conference after sustained pressure to do so. It's getting serious now!!

Angilion · 18 Oct 2018 at 17:46

Tefal said:
Bone saw wouldn't be all that much use in an I terrogation excdpt for fear factor.

If you put one on skin you'll just get a massage.

The whole point of them is they don't cut flesh

Really? How does that work?

Tefal · 18 Oct 2018 at 17:52

Angilion said:
Really? How does that work?

It's a reciprocating saw.

Same as the multiple ones that are everywhere now for diy (it's where they came from)

Section of a circular blade with teeth.

It moves a few degrees clockwise then moves a few degrees anticlockwise very very rapidly.

Something hsrd that csnt move like bone, wood plasterboard etc gets cut through.

Something soft like skin gets moved a few mm to the right then a few mm to the left and just jiggles

So it cuts through bone without damaging tissue as it can move.

Like if you go get a normal wood saw put it on your arm and just move it a tiny bit forward and a tiny bit bsck the elasticity in you're skin means you don't get cut because it jist moves with the teeth

https://youtu.be/hppLXKXpILI

Some dude sticking on in his abdomen

adolf hamster · 18 Oct 2018 at 17:56

Tefal said:
because it jist loves with the teeth

and our award for spelling mistake of the day goes to....

Angilion · 18 Oct 2018 at 17:56

Tefal said:
It's a reciprocating saw.

Same as the multiple ones that are everywhere now for diy (it's where they came from)

Section of a circular blade with teeth.

It moves a few degrees clockwise then moves a few degrees anticlockwise very very rapidly.

Something hsrd that csnt move like bone, wood plasterboard etc gets cut through.

Something soft like skin gets moved a few mm to the right then a few mm to the left and just jiggles

So it cuts through bone without damaging tissue as it can move.

Like if you go get a normal wood saw put it on your arm and just move it a tiny bit forward and a tiny bit bsck the elasticity in you're skin means you don't get cut because it jist loves with the teeth

Ah, I see. Thanks for the explanation.

Although "loves with the teeth" sounds more like kinky sex

Tefal · 18 Oct 2018 at 18:26

adolf hamster said:
and our award for spelling mistake of the day goes to....

Sounds like my ex

Added a video link

Malevolence · 18 Oct 2018 at 19:18

Gotta love the Saudi's lapdog, the US, allowing these ***** even more time to get their stories straight, ditch evidence and 'disappear' witnesses.

muon · 19 Oct 2018 at 23:20

So much for conspiracy theories. Saudi Arabia have given up on lying.

A journalist went inside the consulate with a private appointment to start a fight though? Haha, they may want to think through their damage minimisation strategy a bit better.

I wonder if they are gonna attempt to play this as an evil media exercise which seems to appeal to some in the US.

Minstadave · 19 Oct 2018 at 23:23

Oh he did die then, did they just not notice for over a week?

What was the fight over? The decor or the removal of his limbs?

“I say old boy, that’s terribly impolite to just cut off a chaps arms without asking first......fisticuffs!”

Malevolence · 19 Oct 2018 at 23:33

They've had long enough to come up with any excuse they wanted and that's the best they can do?

aardvark · 19 Oct 2018 at 23:41

lol, they are so full of it.

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