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Spare Me America’s Tears for Jamal Khashoggi – This Excuse for Trump-Bashing Ignores the CIA’s Past Crimes

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Published in Independent
(United Kingdom) on 6 December 2018
by Robert Fisk (link to originallink to original)
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