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Originally Posted by TherapyforGlencross
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The fallout continues from Justin's inability to back up his incendiary words with actual facts.
Just a Diplomacy 101 refresher for people who may have forgotten how the public display of evidence is crucial when making accusations against alleged assassins of foreign governments to help avoid unnecessary geopolitical blow back.
Canadas Remarkably Slapdash Assassination Accusation
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Compare the whole saga to 2018, when Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan publicly accused Saudi Arabia of ordering the murder and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in their Istanbul embassy.
In a lengthy Washington Post op-ed penned one month after the killing, Erdoğan laid out his case against the Saudis: Turkish investigators had audio from inside the embassy as well as surveillance footage showing the movements of Khashoggi and the alleged perpetrators just before the killing
Most notably, Khashoggi’s body remained missing and Saudi officials could not explain to their Turkish counterparts why that was.
And unlike the recent Canadian allegations, Erdoğan was careful to avoid directly accusing Saudi Arabia’s ruler, implying that it could have been the actions of rogue underlings.
“I do not believe for a second that King Salman, the custodian of the holy mosques, ordered the hit on Khashoggi,” he wrote. “Therefore, I have no reason to believe that his murder reflected Saudi Arabia’s official policy.”
Caution and investigative rigour would also define a 2010 incident where the United Arab Emirates provided evidence that an Israeli hit squad had assassinated Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room.
Within weeks of the killing, Dubai Police Chief Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim convened a pivotal press conference providing photographs of all 11 suspects believed to have participated in the murder of al-Mabhouh. The Dubai police also circulated an annotated video spliced together from surveillance footage showing the suspects changing into disguises, stalking al-Mabhouh and ultimately sending a hit team into al-Mabhouh’s room to await his arrival.
All 11 had entered Dubai on false passports, the police announced.
Here again, despite the torrent of supporting evidence — and Israel’s lengthy history of organizing exactly these types of foreign assassinations — the UAE did not directly implicate the Israeli government. Tamim hinted only that “leaders of certain countries gave orders to their intelligence agents to kill” al-Mabhouh.
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There are more examples in the article including the polonium poisioning of Putin critic Litvinenko, and another Israeli killing of an innocent waiter in 1973 Lilllehammer that their intelligence agencies got wrong.
The continued lack of any evidence beyond Justins word is concerning and is starting to reek of political posturing.