But at the same time if you read here you are entitled to have at least sufficient background to whatever is being presented as 'the facts' by the press.
When the media relays some 'leak' or 'rumor' that someone was being tortured and killed inside an Embassy which the Turkish government was covertly 'bugging' at very minimum you should also know certain other facts that are connected to what transpired.
Captagon tablets |
Underground labs in Turkey, Syria, and ENGLAND produce TONS - I kid you not - many many TONS of a substance called 'Captagon,' a compound of Amphetamine and Phenethylline. This latter substance on its own is fairly benign and is marketed widely over the counter as 'Theophylline.' It is used by ISIS soldiers and is known by them as 'chemical courage.' It can be used by people with heart conditions because it does not - unless reacting to other substances - raise the heart-rate.
Whereas the US media is currently running stories about Fentanyl being illegally distributed in the streets, possibly from China sources and sent through the mail, there is simply no doubt at all that it is more Captagon that is being spread around and to which people are becoming addicted and from which many instances of violent outbursts have resulted.
There are considerable gaps in the 'story' that has come through the media about Jamal Khashoggi's demise. On the surface, all the official stories from the Saudi/US side say 'something went amiss' with an interrogation, and that there was a fight and that the disposal of the body was something that compounded the situation regarding proper disclosure and so on.
1. Khashoggi did not go to the Embassy because he was seeking a promised set of documents. Get that firmly out of your head. And we will not be told EXACTLY why he went there or was even in Turkey at all - Turkey has hundreds of actual journalists that it has imprisoned without trial right now and Khashoggi was going there as a spokesperson and champion of whose freedom, exactly? I was wrong in a previous post here - Erdogan arrested 88,000(!) civilians at army gunpoint marching these through the streets you might recall the videos - after his coup, not 14,000.
2. Khashoggi was suffering from emphysema and had a heart condition.
3. If there were drugs implicated in the 'scene' at the Embassy - either used by any of the Saudi 'hit' team, or Khashoggi himself - and if that drug was Captagon, then a violent outcome was certain in the circumstances.
...And if Captagon was used, then it could be a reason for the disposal of the body, which would have had metabolites present to an autopsy.
I cannot say here who is the number 1 manufacturer and distributor of Captagon in Syria, but it is not the Syrian Government, nor the American Government, nor the Russian Government - and the Turkish government is only 'number 2...'
It is not the Saudi Government either although there have been instances of 'elites' there being caught with plane loads of the stuff going to who-knows-where.
Just don't get the idea that if I go back to sticking to talking about nice lovely luxury things here, and stupid money talk and fine clothes from Savile Row or Naples or Milan or somewhere, that I condone all of these present-day governments in the UK and all across Europe, whose wonderful legacy of democracy is rape gangs 'grooming' young economically under-privileged families in the Western Midlands or Westphalia or Glebe or whatever. Or that I am unaware of what is going on down there, in the dirty streets where only the poor unwashed masses reside. If Jamal Khashoggi was desirous of introducing modern Western democracy to the repressed society that Saudi Arabia is, then he was plainly disconnected from reality, even given that so is the society of Saudi Arabia also disconnected from reality.