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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaPo journalist Jamal Kashoggi concluded killed in Saudi embassy in Turkey
ISTANBUL Turkey has concluded that Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent journalist from Saudi Arabia, was killed in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this week by a Saudi team sent specifically for the murder, two people with knowledge of the probe said Saturday.
Turkish investigators believe a 15-member team came from Saudi Arabia. It was a preplanned murder, said one of the people. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation.
They offered no specific evidence to back up the account. But earlier Saturday, Turkeys Anadolu news agency said the Istanbul public prosecutors office had opened a probe into Khashoggis disappearance.Saudi Arabia had vehemently denied that Khashoggi was detained after he entered the consulate.
In an interview with Bloomberg last week, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Khashoggi had left the consulate shortly after he arrived on Tuesday. Saudi officials have yet to provide any evidence for that assertion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkey-concludes-saudi-journalist-khashoggi-killed-by-murder-team-sources-say/2018/10/06/31ee4f86-c8d9-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html?utm_term=.f1338b6ec9b2
By Editorial Board October 4
JAMAL KHASHOGGI, a journalist who has turned a trenchant and questioning eye on the leadership of his country, Saudi Arabia, entered the kingdoms consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday to take care of what should have been routine paperwork. Saudi Arabia says he then left. His fiancee, waiting for him, says he did not, and he cannot be found. Turkey says it has seen no sign that he left the building. Mr. Khashoggi, a contributor to The Posts Global Opinions section, appears to have disappeared, and we are worried.
Mr. Khashoggi is not just any commentator. Over a long career, he has had close contact with Saudi royalty and knows more than most about how they think and function. His criticism, voiced over the past year, most surely rankles Mohammed bin Salman, who was elevated to crown prince last year and has carried out a wide-ranging campaign to silence dissent while trying to modernize the kingdom. Among those in his prisons for political speech are clerics, bloggers, journalists and activists. He imprisoned women who agitated for the right to drive, a right that was granted even as they were punished.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-is-jamal-khashoggi/2018/10/04/2681e000-c7f7-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html?utm_term=.4f50dc0e5838
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)When our President looked the other way and totally ignored their brutality if they liked him.
Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)The Saudis are all that is keeping him out of bankruptcy
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/03/saudi-guests-boosted-revenue-at-trumps-new-york-hotel-reversing-drop.html
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)to get some documents he needed to get married. Why couldn't he have gotten them here?
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)The embassy and Bandar Bush assisted with 9/11 as well.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Wasn't the Saudi intelligence chief staying in a hotel in Virginia with one of the hijackers right before it happened? Amazing.
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)Who likes Spanky and Putie.and hates countries like Britain and Canada.