Khashoggi children have received houses in Saudi Arabia and monthly payments
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#2TIL the arab version of Weregild (blood money) is called Diya:
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#4This article is from April.
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#5Terrifying. Why would the children even want to live there?
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#6All of this is funded by their oil wealth. Everything about SA can be traced back to their oil wealth (including their relations with the US). If the oil runs out or the demand for oil drops low enough, we can expect to see an entire country return to the empty desert it came from. Unlike Norway and similarly to Canada their sovereign wealth fund isn't very healthy, and unlike Norway and Canada they don't have much else going for them.
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#7Better than nothing. But it would have been a magnanimous gesture to give them the choice between houses in Saudi Arabia and, say, Switzerland.
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#8Blood money. How about putting the killer who ordered the killing in prison.
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#9All of this is funded by their oil wealth. Everything about SA can be traced back to their oil wealth (including their relations with the US). If the oil runs out or the demand for oil drops low enough, we can expect to see an entire country return to the empty desert it came from. Unlike Norway and similarly to Canada their sovereign wealth fund isn't very healthy, and unlike Norway and Canada they don't have much e…
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#10Terrifying. Why would the children even want to live there?