https://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/saudi-doctor-accused-of-killing-and-dismembering-journalist-trained-in-australia/news-story/b8cc1f8c374385648ea803ca86e53666 posted:Saudi doctor accused of killing and dismembering journalist ‘trained in Australia’
A SAUDI doctor suspected of killing and dismembering a prominent journalist honed his craft in Australia, it has been revealed.
A SAUDI doctor accused of the grisly assassination of a prominent international journalist in Turkey studied forensic medicine in Australia, it has emerged.
Turkish authorities say Dr Salah al-Tubaigy was among 15 men present at the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Istanbul, when Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi is believed to have met a brutal end on October 2.
The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine confirmed that Dr al-Tubaigy spent three months training as a forensic pathologist at the Melbourne facility in 2015.
Institute director Professor Noel Woodford told the ABC he did not meet the Saudi surgeon during his Australian placement but understood he voiced a particular interest in the field of mass disaster victim identification.
However his predecessor, Stephen Cordner, was one of the Saudi surgeon’s Australian mentors and recalled the experience in a radio interview on Wednesday.
“I remember Dr Tubaigy,” he told ABC radio.
“He became really the senior forensic doctor in Saudi Arabia, he was head of the Saudi forensic medicine commission.”
Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was an outspoken critic of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Picture: SuppliedSource:Supplied
According to Prof Cordner, one of Dr al-Tubaigy’s responsibilities was dealing with disasters, particularly deaths of pilgrims during the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca.
“He did get familiar with the use of our CT scans in a post mortem context,” Prof Cordner said.
“He didn’t do any autopsies. He observed autopsies, attended academic meetings, so really just attended things that happened in the building.”
Prof Cordner said the institute took a “generous view” of people who had indicated they wanted to spend time there observing.
“We approach them as though they’re honest people dealing with us wanting to improve the lives of the people in the country they come from,” he said.
tears posted:30 fucking seconds of wikipedia reading would have told any of you that this guy was a spook lmao
to be fair i hadnt actually done that myself but its nice to know it confirms my suspicion that he had a more official intel role with the saudis
As Head of the Legal Medicine Department of the Saudi Ministry of the Interior and Vice President of the Saudi Legal Medicine Society, alleged assassin Dr. Salah Mohammed al-Tubaigy is one of the leading forensic scientists and medical ethicists currently working in the Kingdom.
Dr. Salah Mohammed al-Tubaigy graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, at King Faisal University in Saudi Arabia in 1997. Three later he ranked first in his class at the Saudi High Institute for Security Study, during which period he also worked as a general practitioner in Riyadh.
In 2004 he left Saudi Arabia in order to study for a masters qualification in forensic medicine, at the prestigious University of Glasgow Medical School, UK. For the next five years he worked as a forensic pathologist in Riyadh and Dammam, publishing a number of papers on homicidal deaths in the Kingdom, as well as contributing to an Arabic-language textbook on forensic pathology.
In 2009 he was accepted as a member of the UK’s Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine (MFFLM), winning admission to the Saudi equivalent the following year.
lol
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tears posted:wikipedia reading
tears posted:30 fucking seconds of wikipedia reading would have told any of you that this guy was a spook lmao
any of his wapo stuff works too
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Syrian insurgents reportedly fire chlorine-filled mortars at govt-held Aleppo and like magic, the Bellingcat crew transforms into chemical attack skeptics, demanding more evidence, cautioning against a reckless rush to judgment and warning about false flag/fabrication. pic.twitter.com/4EcRTTQyOG
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) November 26, 2018
i'm really out of the loop on what's happening atm, personal circumstances and all. but this is so fucking peak i had to share it.
Let me put it this way. I'm gonna be very blunt with you: If it weren't for the United States, they'd be speaking farsi in about a week in Saudi Arabia. Their military can't fight out of a paper bag. They give us 9% of our oil imports. We need them a lot less than they need us. So, I don't buy this idea 'you've got to hook up to a murderous regime, a thug like MBS to protect America from Iran.' Quite the opposite: I think by hooking up with him we hurt our ability to govern in the region.
I say “pretty much” because Reagan also started doing this soon after getting to Washington, and if you look back at D.C. news mob coverage to see how the people around him tried to cover for him at first, it’s like a year-long flipbook where the horrified looks on his handlers’ faces transform into big manic Joker grins as they realize most of the people who voted for Reagan genuinely love the idea that the president might nuclear bomb the entire planet by accident tomorrow.
anyway, something interesting is happening in idlib atm - jihadi group commanders are being popped, and nobody seems to know who is actually doing it. any answer is as likely as any other at this point i suppose. i'd guess it's glorified gang warfare - there is now no chance of victory, so it makes sense for different militias to fight over what few spoils are left. could always be good old mutiny, too - these dipshit commanders have led their guys into what amounts to a gigantic kill box, and the window of opportunity for reconciliation is almost closed. that's gotta smart if you're one of the grunts who started out as a true believer and are now waking up every day knowing the SAA and a fucking shitload of russian war machines are only a few miles away. speaking of which...
intermittent shelling continues, russian spy planes clocking targets. i just read about how SAA units packing the front lines, more arriving by the day, all straining at the leash, pissed off and ready to get on with it. thing is, this has been building for months, and keeps getting delayed until another round of diplomatic talks have the chance to fail. i'm trying to find out more about how the reconciliation attempts are going, but it's hard to find reliable info. what do we think the most likely outcome will be at this point?
also
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/idlib-bab-al-hawa-british-charities-2130671451
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today WSJ reports trump is ordering the immediate withdrawal of invaders.
it seems that the kurds trust in the whimsy of a transactional white supremacist coward to whom they have nothing to offer was misplaced, and erdogan will get to do the genocide
LATEST: Donald Trump has ordered the U.S. military to completely withdraw from Syria, according to an official, as the president said America has “defeated ISIS” in the war-torn country https://t.co/QqjQAwYcIs
— Bloomberg (@business) December 19, 2018
hahahahahahah neocon blob types are crying
1 We’re about to make the exact same mistake in the Middle East that we’ve been making again and again for the past 20 years. https://t.co/KHIHu3hwI5
— Ilan Goldenberg (@ilangoldenberg) December 19, 2018
“full and rapid” withdrawal from #Syria is a grave error with broader implications beyond just the fight against #ISIS
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) December 19, 2018
Too complex to outline why in a tweet. Will speak about this on Facebook Live at 10:45am eastern.
Watch here: https://t.co/SN8390EYZe
Withdrawal of this small American force in Syria would be a huge Obama-like mistake. https://t.co/atsjHUyJlB
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) December 19, 2018
The US killed thousands of civilians in the anti ISIS campaign in Syria. It used white phosphorus. It destroyed 80% of Raqqa and did almost nothing to rebuild. The fighters who died in the campaign were mostly from YPG/J, Turkey’s target when the US leaves
— Molly Crabapple (@mollycrabapple) December 19, 2018
Mission accomplished
This is how Trump's special envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition Brett McGurk answered just last week when asked how long US troops would be in Syria - "We have obviously learned a lot of lessons in the past...we can’t just pick up and leave." pic.twitter.com/9qr88Tx343
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) December 19, 2018
and of course, then there's the #resistance clowns:
In other words, you couldn't remove sanctions on Russia and you don't want Putin to release the Kompromat so you will now give him control of Syria?
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) December 19, 2018
I think this seems more like the truth, but that's just my opinion...
French diplomatic source: France was not consulted with, or warned about the US decision to withdraw troops from Syria.
— Rym Momtaz ريم ممتاز (@RymMomtaz) December 19, 2018
[France has troops in Syria, and is a partner in the anti-ISIS coalition]
Security Council diplomats at the #UN: Assad won the war in #Syria.
— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) December 19, 2018
posted:we literally cannot Mossad the Assad
MarxUltor posted:Security Council diplomats at the #UN: Assad won the war in #Syria.
— Farnaz Fassihi (@farnazfassihi) December 19, 2018posted:we literally cannot Mossad the Assad
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkish-mod-says-kurdish-forces-will-be-buried-in-northern-syria/
Never trust the Yankee.