Who is Jamal Khashoggi? Prominent journalist Khashoggi is feared dead after his October 2 disappearance inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Source 4q.
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The Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi (Hover)
Turkey's president says journalist Jamal Khashoggi was 'ferociously murdered' by a Saudi Arabian hit squad. Saudi Arabia started planning journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder days before he disappeared inside its consulate in Istanbul, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday as he revealed details about investigation into Khashoggi's killing. Erdogan was speaking to parliament as part of his pledge to unveil the "Naked truth" about a case that has shocked the world and raised suspicions that a Saudi hit squad planned Khashoggi's killing after he walked into the consulate on Oct. 2, and then attempted to cover it up. Erdogan said Khashoggi was "Ferociously murdered." Ref. USAToday.
IA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, reports say. The CIA said in a statement that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince ordered the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, according to the Associated Press and Washington Post. The assessment comes weeks after the Saudi government admitted Khashoggi, a fierce critic of the royal family, was killed in its Turkish consulate at the hands of interrogators. Saudi officials, however, have denied that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was involved or aware of the killing. Ref. USAToday.
Jamal Khashoggi's last words "I can't breathe." These were the final words uttered by Jamal Khashoggi after he was set upon by a Saudi hit squad at the country's consulate in Istanbul, according to a source briefed on the investigation into the killing of the Washington Post columnist.
The source, who has read a translated transcript of an audio recording of Khashoggi's painful last moments, said it was clear that the killing on October 2 was no botched rendition attempt, but the execution of a premeditated plan to murder the journalist. Ref. CNN.
Saudi Arabian court sentences 5 to death in killing of Jamal Khashoggi. The court issued the sentences Monday for the killing of the Washington Post columnist, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last year by a team of Saudi agents. Saudi Arabia's state-run Al-Ekhbariya TV channel reported that three others were sentenced to prison. All can appeal the verdicts. Ref. USAToday.