Jamal Khashoggi strangled as soon as he entered consulate, prosecutor confirms

[demmiblue]

Source: The Guardian

Jamal Khashoggi was strangled as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, then his body dismembered and disposed of, the city’s chief prosecutor has said in the first official confirmation of how the Saudi journalist died.

The statement further undermines Saudi claims he was killed after a fight broke out in the consulate, where he had arrived to collect documents for his upcoming wedding.

The prosecutor said in his statement that the murder had been planned and discussions this week with his Saudi counterpart had yielded “no concrete result”.

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[George II]

1. This is yet another version of the murder. On a positive (?) note, at least it appears...

...that he wasn't dismembered while he was alive, if this version is the real one.

[dewsgirl]

5. It also crosses out the version of the story where others in the consulate could

hear his screams throughout the building. I'm kind of leery of this one, if only for the story about his fingers being cut off. Why do that while he was unconscious or dead? This poor guy went through unimaginable hell, I truly believe this.

[still_one]

7. They are trying to sanitize it. I suspect your speculation is correct

[KCDebbie]

2. If he was strangled as soon as he entered the consulate

Then who was screaming on the recordings that CIA Director Gina Haspel (sp) listened to?

[forgotmylogin]

4. Yeah. When did he start recording on his watch?

Unless he had already planned to record whatever business he was doing, or it got activated accidentally.

[avebury]

8. I read that he set the apple

watch to record before he entered the consulate with the recording to be uploaded domewhere.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. My first thought as well.

Pretty hard to know what's going on!

[KCDebbie]

11. If he was strangled as soon as he entered the consulate

Then why did the forensic specialists need to wear headphones with loud music as they were cutting him up?

[demmiblue]

13. Perhaps they strangled him to the point of unconsciousness in order to subdue/move him,

and then...

[dewsgirl]

14. This whole mess doesn't smell right to me, as someone else in this thread stated, they

are attemting to sanitize this.

[Sneederbunk]

3. Trump will get really tough with Saudi Arabia, yessiree.

[bullwinkle428]

6. Another "win" for Chump, in the sense that once again, he ran the clock

out on the news cycle, and this story has dropped to a "back-burner" issue for most people at best, and he can go back to being all lovey-dovey with the Saudis, and roll around in their filthy money.

[magicarpet]

9. Sick fucks,...

Anus Orange will love this to no end.

The "FALSE NEWS" got stabbed in the back by the First Amendment and left blood stains all over the US Constitution.

[pdsimdars]

12. I hope this gets brought back into mainstream discussion "bigly" . . .