The Hacking attacks against Saudi critic Ali AlAhmed are condemnable

In the light of the horrific murder of Jamal Khashoggi by the Saudi regime, this harassment against a prominent Saudi critic, Ali AlAhmed is particularly disturbing.

Unlike the token, selective and belated criticism by the late Khashoggi, AlAhmed has been a consistent and clear voice about the Saudi regime’s political repression as well as its role in spreading extremism through its State sponsorship of Wahhabism.

The Associated Press covered this hacking attack against AlAhmed

“AlAhmed believes Saudi Arabia is behind Stalin’s emails, as well as dozens of other suspicious messages he has received over the past year. One November 2017 missive purportedly came from Khashoggi, whose killing last month on the grounds of the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has refocused international attention on the brutality of the Arab kingdom’s leadership.

The Saudi Embassy in Washington did not return written questions from the AP.

Washington Post Executive Editor Marty Baron said the hackers’ theft of Khashoggi’s identity was “contemptible.”

https://apnews.com/cee0e8a5338e4b51b3cdcae9301ec479

Clearly, the policy makers in the United States have not learnt anything from the brutality that was apparently used to eliminate Jamal Khashoggi. After the initial outrage, the mainstream media has already toned down its criticism of the Saudi regime.

Meanwhile millions are starving in Yemen which has become the biggest humanitarian disaster on the planet thanks to Saudi aggression backed by US-supplied arms and intelligence.