Turkey concludes Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi killed by 'murder' team, sources say

[DonViejo]

Source: The Washington Post



By Kareem Fahim October 6 at 7:02 PM

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. Earlier Saturday, however, Turkey’s Anadolu news agency said the Istanbul public prosecutor’s office had opened a probe into Khashoggi’s disappearance. Turkish authorities have said that Khashoggi never left the consulate.

Saudi Arabia had vehemently denied that Khashoggi, who also contributed to The Washington Post’s Global Opinions section, was detained after he entered the mission.

Read more: 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

[bronxiteforever]

1. Kick and recommend for visibility. Saudis kills journalist.

Jamal friend of Thomas Friedman.

Saudi CP MBS and FM al-Jubeir: You need to find/release my friend Jamal Khashoggi, who went missing in Saudi Istanbul consulate. It will be disastrous for your diplomacy if he’s been abducted.

Link to tweet

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[Demovictory9]

2. kick

[SunSeeker]

3. Horrible. Saudi Arabia has a lot in common with Putin. nt

[moondust]

4. Um, we're supposed to believe "Turkish authorities"?

After "96,719 teachers and academics were purged from Turkey's public and private educational institutions." And thousands more purged outside the schools.

http://stockholmcf.org/turkish-govt-to-stop-sending-students-to-american-universities/

[issuesDemocrats]

5. I believe that the Saudis under their young Crown Prince would absolutely do this.

[moondust]

8. No doubt they would do most anything.

But so would Erdogan's goons.

[marble falls]

11. Its hard to sort out the murderers from the killers, isn't it?

[issuesDemocrats]

6. Fuck Saudi Arabia and their enablers in this country and elsewhere.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Turkish authorities believe journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed

Turkish officials tell NBC News that authorities believe the critic of Saudi Arabia was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
by Josh Lederman and Ayman Mohyeldin / Oct.06.2018 / 6:59 PM CDT

Turkish authorities believe that journalist and Saudi Arabia critic Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared in Turkey last week, was killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, a senior Turkish official and another regional diplomat told NBC News.

The Washington Post, which published Khashoggi’s work, reported Saturday that Turkey believed he was killed by a Saudi kill team, citing two people with knowledge of the investigation.

Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who writes an opinion column for The Washington Post, disappeared last week after entering the Saudi consulate in Turkey’s largest city and hasn’t been seen since. Saudi Arabia’s government has said Khashoggi left the consulate building and that they’re looking into what happened to him afterward, while Turkey had said previously it believed Khashoggi was still in the consulate.

“The initial assessment of the Turkish police is that Mr. Khashoggi has been killed at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul,” the Turkish official told NBC News on Saturday. “We believe that the murder was premeditated and the body was subsequently moved out of the consulate.”

More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkish-authorities-believe-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-was-killed-n917451

[SWBTATTReg]

9. This is scary, if true. Who'll want to step inside their country's embassy or consulate now, ...

should one be in disagreement w/ one's home government? They might get murdered.

Proving it will be difficult but the word is out now. If you're a media type, don't trust your own consulates or embassies for anything.

rump is good friends w/ the Saudi although they turned down rumps' request to pump more oil to bring oil prices down. Rump needs to be firm w/ the Saudi if they are going to get in the habit of killing their opposition in this manner e.g., don't kill them, and/or take this issue up w/ the United Nations. I doubt anything will ever come of this, too much money at sake. A sorry state of affairs.

[Socal31]

10. It is certainly possible.

But Turkey is becoming just as bad as any other fundi country with a global agenda. Once they leave NATO over the S-400/F-35/YPG/destroyed economy situation currently unfolding, things will get extremely interesting.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Turkey expected to release evidence today, and Erdogan to give statement

In an evening of quickfire developments, following four days of silence since his disappearance, officials in Ankara pledged to on Sunday release evidence that they say supports claims that the journalist was killed shortly after he entered the consulate to sign divorce papers. The evidence is expected to include video footage and focus on a black car.

Two Turkish officials claimed to Reuters that Khashoggi, 59, had been killed. The Reuters claim was circulated by a government spokesman, and confirmed by numerous other officials, some of whom claimed to have knowledge of how the body had been disposed of. Several officials alleged, without tabling evidence, that Khashoggi had first been tortured.

Officials believe that a team of 15 Saudis arrived on Tuesday to conduct the killing, then left the country soon afterwards.

The president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is expected to release a statement about the incident on Sunday. Aside from summonsing the Saudi ambassador in Ankara, senior officials had remained mute about Khashoggi’s fate, leading to speculation that he had been smuggled out of the country with Turkish consent.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/06/saudi-journalist-killed-inside-consulate-turkish-sources

[pioche4]

13. So....What was he working on that led to this awful event....

[issuesDemocrats]

14. He's a US-based Saudi journalist who's been mildly critical of the regime. MBS is sending a message

to his critics at home and abroad.

It's not the ordinary Saudis who he's directly targeting. It's anyone in any position to threaten him. It's the same playbook as Putin and any other vicious autocrat - "this is what happens when you speak out against me, anywhere in the world."

For ordinary Saudis, the message is: These critics are traitors, and I am your protector against traitors. Again, same playbook as Putin and others of his ilk.

And yes, it can happen here.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Saudi Arabia sent 15 people on the assassination assignment?

Russia only sends two agents when they want someone done in. What's wrong with the Saudis?

Anyway, if the story's true, rest in peace Jamal.

[Blue_Tires]

16. Greenwald and Snowden were unavailable for comment