by Jim Heath | Oct 25, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
CIA Director Gina Haspel briefed President Trump late Thursday about her trip to Turkey, where she listened to audio purportedly capturing the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The tape of Khashoggi’s final moments before he was murdered are reportedly gruesome. Turkish...
by Jim Heath | Oct 23, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
The killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned days in advance, according to Turkey’s president. Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country had strong evidence Khashoggi was killed in a premeditated and “savage” murder at the Saudi consulate in...
by Jim Heath | Oct 21, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
President Trump praised Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman as a “strong person” with “very good control” despite top U.S. lawmakers and our intelligence agencies saying it’s likely he ordered the killing of a Washington Post writer....
by Jim Heath | Oct 21, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
Thousands of Central American migrants are slowly advancing toward the U.S. border, as they defy efforts of four governments to break them up. The mostly Honduran migrants rose at dawn this morning from the shores of a river between Guatemala and Mexico and continued...
by Jim Heath | Oct 20, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines, Trump
Saudi Arabia lured journalist Jamal Khashoggi into their consulate in Turkey, murdered and then dismembered him, and lied to the world about it for three weeks. With President Trump defending that behavior, many members of Congress are speaking out. “To say that...
by Jim Heath | Oct 19, 2018 | Foreign Affairs, Headlines
After three weeks of lying to the world, Saudi Arabia has admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside their consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Eighteen Saudi nationals have been arrested, the state prosecutor said in a statement to media, adding, “the...
