Saudi
prince MBS tells US secretary of state Mike Pompeo they are "strong
and old allies who fought ISIS together" he said "it would
be unfortunate if ISIS uses the current situation to resurge in
places the US wouldn't even anticipate."
This is a first-rate analysis and backgrounder on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.
Jake
Morphonios was the first to mention the macabre details of the murder
– from his own intelligence souces.
The Truth About Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia & the CIA
Blackstone
Intelligence
Saudi
journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in
Instanbul, Turkey. Who was he and why did Crown Prince Mohammed bin
Salman want him dead?
As
'Gruesome' New Details of Khashoggi Murder Emerge,
Trump Obediently Bows to Saudi Crown Prince
"The
president is willingly and knowingly doing the counter messaging for
the Saudi kingdom. He floated the 'rogue attackers' theory and [is]
now vouching for their transparent denials and vows to investigate."
14
October, 2018
As "shocking
and gruesome" new details surrounding
Saudi Arabia's alleged torture and assassination of Washington
Post journalist
Jamal Khashoggi continued to trickle out on Tuesday—with anonymous
Turkish officials telling the press that the prominent dissident was
beaten, killed by lethal injection, and cut into pieces by the head
autopsy doctor of the Saudi defense forces—U.S. President Donald
Trump accepted wholesale Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin
Salman's increasingly
implausible claim
that he had zero knowledge of what "took place" two weeks
ago inside the kingdom's Turkish consulate.
"Just
spoke with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia who totally denied any
knowledge of what took place in their Turkish consulate,"
Trump wrote
on Twitter after
a short phone conversation with the heir to the Saudi throne. "He
was with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the call, and told me
that he has already started, and will rapidly expand, a full and
complete investigation into this matter. Answers will be forthcoming
shortly."
Trump's
tweets came just after Al
Jazeera's
Jamal Elshayyal reported that—contrary to reports the
Saudis' are preparing to float a claim that Khashoggi's death was the
result of a botched interrogation—the journalist was "beaten
as soon as he entered the consulate" right in front of the Saudi
consul general and was not interrogated.
Citing
Turkish officials who reportedly have access to audio recordings,
Jamal Elshayyal wrote that Khashoggi was tortured, killed by lethal
injection, and dismembered by the Saudi military's head autopsy
doctor, who insisted "that music be played while he cut up the
journalist's body."
"These
shocking and gruesome details would explain why U.S. intelligence
sources told CNN and
other American media outlets that they were 'utterly shocked' at what
the content of the recordings presented to them by the Turkish
authorities," Elshayyal observed.
Following
Turkish investigators' examination of the Saudi consulate on Monday,
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told
reporters that
officials are looking into the possible presence of "toxic
materials" inside the Saudi consulate and whether those
materials were "removed by painting them over."
These
latest revelations from anonymous Turkish officials as well as
Turkey's president come just hours after Pompeo finished
an all-smiles
meeting with
the Saudi crown prince and King Salman, during which—according
to State
Department spokesperson Heather Nauert—the U.S. secretary of state
"thanked the King for Saudi Arabia's strong partnership with the
United States" and applauded the murderous
regime for
vowing to carry out "a thorough, transparent, and timely
investigation of Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance."
The
Saudi regime's explanation of what took place in its Turkish
consulate two weeks ago has changed dramatically over the past week
as new evidence has continued to emerge and as the international
community has pressed for a credible investigation.
Initially,
the Saudis maintained that Khashoggi left the Turkish consulate
alive. Then, when this position become untenable, Trump obediently
suggested after
a phone call with King Salman that perhaps "rogue killers"
flew to Turkey without the knowledge of the regime and murdered
Khashoggi.
Meanwhile, CNN and
other outlets are reporting that the Saudis are considering releasing
a statement admitting that Khashoggi was killed but claiming the
murder was the result of an interrogation gone wrong, and that the
Saudi leadership had no knowledge of what was taking place.
Every
step of the way—as numerous
critics have pointed out—Trump
has proven to be a willing megaphone for the Saudi regime's rapidly
changing narrative, mindlessly repeating it on Twitter and to
reporters as it has changed on a day-to-day basis.
"The
president is willingly and knowingly doing the counter messaging for
the Saudi kingdom," noted Washington
Post national
security reporter Greg Miller in a tweet on Tuesday. "He floated
the 'rogue attackers' theory and [is] now vouching for their
transparent denials and vows to investigate."
Forensics
expert ‘cut to pieces’ Saudi journalist’s body as colleagues
listened to music - sources
RT,
17
October, 2018
Journalist
Jamal Khashoggi’s body was cut into pieces after his death at the
Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago, a Turkish source has told
CNN and Al Jazeera.
The
source told Al Jazeera that the murder took about seven minutes and
said that Saudi forensics expert Saleh al-Tubaiqi dismembered
Khashoggi’s body and asked his colleagues to listen to music while
he did it.
Turkey
had earlier claimed that a team of 15 Saudis flew into Istanbul to
kill Khashoggi and said that there was audio and video recordings
from inside the building to prove that he had been killed there, but
no further details had been made public.
A
team of investigators searched the building for nine hours on Monday
and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that some “toxic
materials” in
the consulate had been “painted
over” before
investigators got inside.
A “high
level” official
told the AP earlier that police had found “certain
evidence” of
the killing after the search.
Khashoggi,
a journalist who wrote columns critical of Riyadh for the Washington
Post, entered the consulate on October 2 to obtain documents for his
planned marriage to Turkish fiancée, Hatice Cengiz.
Riyadh
has denied involvement with the killing, but reports in US media on
Monday suggested that the kingdom might be preparing to admit that
the journalist was killed in an unsanctioned interrogation gone
wrong.
#BREAKING: "Saudi journalist Khassogi was killed inside the office of the Saudi consul. The murder took 7 minutes & during the time one of the Saudis cut the body he asked the others to listen to music" - Turkish official source to Aljazeera
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