Damn! The Clown Prince is going all Godfather II. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...disappearance-THREE-exiled-royal-princes.html
Chilling dossier that PROVES Khashoggi wasn’t Saudis’ only victim: Journalist's 'horrific murder' follows the disappearance of THREE exiled royal princes as the House of Saud hunts down its dissidents overseas
At 1.14pm on October 2, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and off the face of this Earth. He vanished as if he had never existed. But the fallout from his disappearance grows by the day.
It is now widely believed that Mr Khashoggi was killed in the building by members of a 15-strong Saudi regime hit squad that had flown into the city earlier the same day.
On Monday, police and prosecutors inspected the consulate building in Istanbul for more than eight hours.
Now Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said they found fresh paint in the building where Mr Khashoggi vanished.
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Horrifying: Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was thrown onto a desk and dismembered by a Saudi 'hit squad' while he was still alive, according to an anonymous source
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Jamal Khashoggi (right) arriving at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 2. He has not been seen since and Turkey has accused Saudi agents of murdering him
Turkish officials believe he was killed and dismembered in the consulate. According to reports, the government has an audio recording which they have shared as evidence with Saudi Arabia and the US.
Yesterday, it was alleged that a recording suggested the journalist had had his fingers cut off one by one while still alive.
A former adviser to the inner circle of the autocratic House of Saud, rulers of the super-wealthy desert kingdom, Mr Khashoggi had become an emigre critic of its abuses. The Sauds wanted him ‘out of the picture’, he recently told a journalist.
They have succeeded, but only in the physical sense. His image is now all over the internet, newspapers and television screens.
Parallels with the nerve agent poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal by agents of Russia’s GRU military spy agency in Salisbury have been drawn. Here was an authoritarian regime seeking to eliminate a dissident on foreign soil in a brutal and flagrant manner.
The state-owned TV network Al Arabiya has claimed the 15 Saudis who arrived in the area on the day of Mr Khashoggi’s disappearance were tourists.
But while Vladimir Putin’s Russia is hostile to Western liberal democracies, Mr Khashoggi’s reported murder and dismemberment using a bone saw – ‘like Pulp Fiction’ – seems to have taken place on the orders of a friend of the West – someone who even took tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace and was hosted at Downing Street as recently as March when a potential £65million UK-Saudi investment partnership was signed.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives for talks at 10 Downing Street earlier this year
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – known as ‘MBS’ – is effectively Saudi Arabia’s ruler. He has been lauded for his ‘liberalisation’ of the Kingdom.
Saudi women are now allowed to drive. Cinemas have opened. Yet behind this window-dressing there lies a more unpalatable truth: The key Western ally in the Arab Middle East heads a murderous regime that has cracked down on human rights activists despite granting some freedoms.
Now, perhaps, the Saudis have gone too far – the Turks are sure a murder has taken place.
No doubt if audio recordings do exist, they will have been on the agenda on Tuesday after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Saudi Arabia for urgent talks with King Salman.
It was reported on the same day that the Saudis were preparing to admit they killed Mr Khashoggi when an interrogation went too far. But last night, no such admission was forthcoming.
Mr Pompeo will have done his homework and know this is not the first time the Saudis stand accused of seeking out enemies of the regime with violent intent. Over 15 years, other high-profile domestic critics have been plucked from exile by the kingdom, as we shall see.
First, though, let us look at what is known about the final days and hours of the unfortunate Jamal Khashoggi
Chilling dossier that PROVES Khashoggi wasn’t Saudis’ only victim: Journalist's 'horrific murder' follows the disappearance of THREE exiled royal princes as the House of Saud hunts down its dissidents overseas
- Khashoggi disappeared on October 2 after walking into Saudi consulate
- Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan said fresh paint found in the building
- Dossier now shows Khashoggi's disappearance followed three other incidents
At 1.14pm on October 2, Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul and off the face of this Earth. He vanished as if he had never existed. But the fallout from his disappearance grows by the day.
It is now widely believed that Mr Khashoggi was killed in the building by members of a 15-strong Saudi regime hit squad that had flown into the city earlier the same day.
On Monday, police and prosecutors inspected the consulate building in Istanbul for more than eight hours.
Now Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said they found fresh paint in the building where Mr Khashoggi vanished.
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Horrifying: Journalist Jamal Khashoggi was thrown onto a desk and dismembered by a Saudi 'hit squad' while he was still alive, according to an anonymous source
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Jamal Khashoggi (right) arriving at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 2. He has not been seen since and Turkey has accused Saudi agents of murdering him
Turkish officials believe he was killed and dismembered in the consulate. According to reports, the government has an audio recording which they have shared as evidence with Saudi Arabia and the US.
Yesterday, it was alleged that a recording suggested the journalist had had his fingers cut off one by one while still alive.
A former adviser to the inner circle of the autocratic House of Saud, rulers of the super-wealthy desert kingdom, Mr Khashoggi had become an emigre critic of its abuses. The Sauds wanted him ‘out of the picture’, he recently told a journalist.
They have succeeded, but only in the physical sense. His image is now all over the internet, newspapers and television screens.
Parallels with the nerve agent poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal by agents of Russia’s GRU military spy agency in Salisbury have been drawn. Here was an authoritarian regime seeking to eliminate a dissident on foreign soil in a brutal and flagrant manner.
The state-owned TV network Al Arabiya has claimed the 15 Saudis who arrived in the area on the day of Mr Khashoggi’s disappearance were tourists.
But while Vladimir Putin’s Russia is hostile to Western liberal democracies, Mr Khashoggi’s reported murder and dismemberment using a bone saw – ‘like Pulp Fiction’ – seems to have taken place on the orders of a friend of the West – someone who even took tea with the Queen at Buckingham Palace and was hosted at Downing Street as recently as March when a potential £65million UK-Saudi investment partnership was signed.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrives for talks at 10 Downing Street earlier this year
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – known as ‘MBS’ – is effectively Saudi Arabia’s ruler. He has been lauded for his ‘liberalisation’ of the Kingdom.
Saudi women are now allowed to drive. Cinemas have opened. Yet behind this window-dressing there lies a more unpalatable truth: The key Western ally in the Arab Middle East heads a murderous regime that has cracked down on human rights activists despite granting some freedoms.
Now, perhaps, the Saudis have gone too far – the Turks are sure a murder has taken place.
No doubt if audio recordings do exist, they will have been on the agenda on Tuesday after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Saudi Arabia for urgent talks with King Salman.
It was reported on the same day that the Saudis were preparing to admit they killed Mr Khashoggi when an interrogation went too far. But last night, no such admission was forthcoming.
Mr Pompeo will have done his homework and know this is not the first time the Saudis stand accused of seeking out enemies of the regime with violent intent. Over 15 years, other high-profile domestic critics have been plucked from exile by the kingdom, as we shall see.
First, though, let us look at what is known about the final days and hours of the unfortunate Jamal Khashoggi
