{"id":177109,"date":"2019-12-23T20:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T01:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/23\/the-saudis-should-have-hired-claude-rains-to-make-the-announcement\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T20:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T01:02:00","slug":"the-saudis-should-have-hired-claude-rains-to-make-the-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/12\/23\/the-saudis-should-have-hired-claude-rains-to-make-the-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Saudis Should Have Hired Claude Rains to Make the Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 260px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/I0S9d.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/I0S9d.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Round up the usual suspects<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Because the recent convictions in the Jamal Kashoggi murder is literally a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-saudi-khashoggi\/saudi-arabia-sentences-five-to-death-over-khashoggi-murder-u-n-official-decries-mockery-idUSKBN1YR0SY\">round up the usual suspects<\/a> moment.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most an egregious scapegoating that I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three to jail  over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but a U.N.  investigator accused it of making a \u201cmockery\u201d of justice by allowing the  masterminds of last year\u2019s killing to go free.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Saudi court rejected the findings of a U.N. inquiry by ruling that the killing was not premeditated, but carried out \u201cat the spur of the moment\u201d. Saudi Deputy Public Prosecutor and spokesman Shalaan al-Shalaan said the court dismissed charges against three of the 11 people tried, finding them not guilty. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The source said the five men condemned to death were essentially foot soldiers in the killing, while two senior security officials acquitted played a more significant role. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Agnes Callamard, the U.N. special rapporteur for extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions, said the trial verdict was a \u201cmockery\u201d of justice.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe hit-men are guilty, sentenced to death. The masterminds not only walk free, they have barely been touched by the investigation and the trial,\u201d she said on Twitter. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, but no one cares, because the Saudis have all that oil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Round up the usual suspects Because the recent convictions in the Jamal Kashoggi murder is literally a round up the usual suspects moment. This is the most an egregious scapegoating that I&#8217;ve seen in a very long time: Saudi Arabia on Monday sentenced five people to death and three to jail over the murder of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[368,435,364,509,374],"class_list":["post-177109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-corruption","tag-crimes","tag-evil","tag-house-of-saud","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}