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Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by RspecMAuthortah »

As an immigrant founder of a small company, America no longer seems to me like a safe environment. The entire political culture has become nothing short of toxic, and crimes like this out in the open makes you question why would an immigrant come to US to start a business if they can get murdered like this? The fact that this happened in one of the safest areas in New York, makes you wonder if city life even worth it? May be he should have owned a gun? So many questions.

Hope his family finds some answers.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by everybodyknows »

agustif wrote: post #199
chubot wrote: post #104

Uh wow, I never heard of this company or person, but this is horrible and tragic. However I just read "The Upstarts", the 2017 book about AirBNB and Uber. It specifically mentions that 2 rideshare leaders felt their lives were threatened by local competition. I believe it was the original founder of Seamless in NYC, and an early executive at Uber, I believe when they were launching in NYC. Apparently it's not uncommo…

Escobar owned all taxis in Medellin

Our president's former attorney owned a taxi business:

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/13/610849891/michael-cohens-trou...

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by toyg »

yardie wrote: post #174
marcinzm wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>that'd be geopolitical suicide Saudi Arabia seems to be doing fine last I checked.

Saudi Arabia carried out an extrajudicial killing in a small, neighboring state. This was carried out in the US. And for all intents and purposes could be considered an act of war against a state that has an unlimited war chest.

A superpower doesn't go to war over an isolated assassination of (with all due respect to the victim and his family) some random rich kid. Casus belli is invoked only where there was a pre-existing ambition. I don't think the US have any ambition to take over Saudi Arabia, when they couldn't even run Iraq.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by azinman2 »

dreae wrote: post #257
azinman2 wrote: post #246

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you have a house with windows on the street? Do you walk outside without body armor and a bullet proof vest? Get in a cab... without knowing the driver or having bullet proof glass? Society wouldn't be very fun or fruitful if we all lived in secure underground bunkers.

You can tell when someone's broken your window

So you’re afraid of coming home and there’s someone hiding in the house? How often does this actually happen compared to homes secured differently? It’s not like most houses have some impossible to pick locks...

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by [deleted] »

anonAndOn wrote: post #112
ak39 wrote: post #50

Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?

They're called pathologists and they usually do autopsies. [0] [0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6288235/Saudi-autop...

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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by johnyzee »

codebolt wrote: post #222
ithinkso wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Turkey has the second largest military in NATO (after US) and by quite a margin

Turkey leadership may well be sympathetic to the Saudis to some extent. Freedom of press doesn't exactly seem like their biggest concern, and they have an authoritarian Muslim ruler.

They 'may be', but they're not. They are on opposing sides of a huge regional political divide, and pretty much in cold war against eachother.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by leephillips »

mlyle wrote: post #225
1024core wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did the assailant come with a chainsaw? How did the saw get there? It's highly unlikely that a condo dweller would have a chainsaw sitting around.

It just says an "electric saw". Probably a reciprocating saw or something. You'd get even more attention from neighbors (who apparently heard a violent altercation, and didn't call police-- instead calling his sister??) using a chain saw.

The part about not calling the police is not that surprising. You call the NYPD if you would like everyone in the area shot and drugs and guns planted on the bodies. Otherwise, they're not very useful.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by ogre_codes »

> The death was not immediately labeled a homicide, and a Police Department spokesman said that the medical examiner’s office would determine the cause of death.

Umm. I think it's safe to rule suicide out when the corpse was dismembered with a saw.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by novok »

libraryatnight wrote: post #201
alpha_squared wrote: post #183

> Condos in the building feature Italian marble kitchens and master baths, white oak floors and asking prices in the $2 million to $2.5 million range, according to the real estate website StreetEasy. The website Curbed noted in a 2017 article that access to the building’s units was via a private, keyed elevator. This is such a strange paragraph to read in an article like this. I see the relevance of the last sentence…

The whole article has this weird tone like it's part of a hard boiled detective novel: “You kind of forget New York City is New York City sometimes,” she said. I like hard boiled detective novels, but it felt weird here when I reminded myself this isn't a short story, this is a real man who was just murdered with family and friends and neighbors.

It feels like the start of a detective adventure game. It feels so out of left field otherwise.

Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo

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Post by escape_goat »

devalgo wrote: post #259
escape_goat wrote: post #164

Fahim Saleh was born in Saudi Arabia and was killed in a manner that "appeared professional" and then dismembered. This could easily be an atrocious crime by an individual or related to — for instance — organized crime in Nigeria, but it is sobering that one of the usual suspects when something like this happens is a state actor.

I'm not a defender of Saudi Arabia but besides him being born there how is it relevant? He does business in Africa and was educated in and lives in the US. Is there any indication he was a anti-Saudi activist? I don't see any so why should that be brought up at all?

I haven't found any indication that he said anything against the Saudi regime. I brought it up because he appears to have been executed according to a professional (if bungled) plan reminiscent of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi state. I think it merits contemplation any time anyone with Saudi connections is professionally murdered and dismembered.
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