Turkish police raid villa outside Istanbul in search for Khashoggi's body

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Source: The Washington Post


Paramilitary police officers stand at the entrance to a private villa in Yalova, Turkey, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. (AP/AP)

By Kareem Fahim November 26 at 6:05 AM

ISTANBUL — Turkish police raided a villa in a rural district southeast of Istanbul early Monday as part of their ongoing search for the body of Jamal Khashoggi, the journalist who was killed in Istanbul by Saudi agents last month, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported.

Investigators focused on the property after new intelligence showed that one of the Saudi agents involved in Khashoggi’s murder had called the property owner a day before the killing, a Turkish official briefed on the investigation said Sunday.

Turkish investigators previously identified Mansour Othman M. Abahussain, who made the call, as a member of a 15-man Saudi squad that allegedly killed and dismembered Khashoggi soon after the journalist entered the consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.

On Oct. 1, Abahussain “placed a call from his personal cellphone” to the owner of a large “farm” in a rural area near Yalova, on the coast of the Sea of Marmara, according to the official, who quoted from a confidential investigative report. The report identified the owner of the property as a Saudi national but did not specify what was discussed, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose details from the ongoing investigation.

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2. A Saudi agent discussed hiding Khashoggi's remains before his death, prosecutors say

Source: Washington Post

A Saudi agent discussed hiding Khashoggi’s remains before his death, prosecutors say

By Kareem Fahim November 26 at 3:46 PM

ISTANBUL — A Saudi agent involved in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi had discussed concealing Khashoggi’s dismembered remains during a telephone call the day before the killing, Turkish prosecutors said Monday.

During a telephone discussion on Oct. 1 between the agent, Mansour Othman M. Abbahussain, and a Saudi businessman who owns a villa in Turkey, “the conversation was regarding what would be done to destroy/hide the body of the killed journalist” after it was dismembered, a prosecutor’s statement said.

Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor who had written columns critical of current Saudi leaders, was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 by members of a 15-man team that had been sent to Turkey from Saudi Arabia, according to Turkish and Saudi prosecutors. His remains have not been recovered.

The phone discussion, if confirmed, bolsters Turkey’s repeated assertions that Khashoggi’s killing had been planned. Saudi prosecutors say that the agents had orders only to persuade or force Khashoggi to return to Saudi Arabia and that they killed the journalist during a struggle in the consulate.

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