CIA finds Saudi crown prince sent at least 11 messages to adviser who oversaw Khashoggi killing...

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Source: The Hill



CIA finds Saudi crown prince sent at least 11 messages to adviser who oversaw Khashoggi killing around time of his death

BY CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO - 12/01/18 08:31 AM EST

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent at least 11 messages to his adviser, who oversaw the effort to kill Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, around the time of Khashoggi's killing, according to a classified CIA report obtained by The Wall Street Journal.

According to the excerpts of the assessment reported by the Journal, bin Salman told associates in August 2017 "we could possibly lure [Khashoggi] outside Saudi Arabia and make arrangements," if the crown prince could not convince the dissident Saudi journalist, who was living in Virginia, to return to Saudi Arabia.

The Journal noted that it was unclear from the excerpts whether the comments came directly from the crown prince or from someone describing his communications.

The report states that the communication "seems to foreshadow the Saudi operation launched against Khashoggi," according to the Journal.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/middle-east-north-africa/419242-cia-finds-saudi-crown-prince-sent-at-least-11

[Achilleaze]

4. Bonesaw & Bonespurs (R)

Fugly couple.

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5. Mr Bone Saw and Mr Novichok:

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9. A real cut up.

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6. .....

[Achilleaze]

7. Saud & Fraud !

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[Achilleaze]

3. republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief commits to more lies on this subject

And will add it to his massive republican lie schedule.

[riversedge]

8. Seems that the CIA really wants all to KNOW that their Assesment is Correct and Trump's is NOT

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cia-intercepts-underpin-assessment-saudi-crown-prince-targeted-khashoggi-1543640460?mod=e2tw

CIA Intercepts Underpin Assessment Saudi Crown Prince Targeted Khashoggi


Conclusion that Prince Mohammed bin Salman ‘probably ordered’ killing relies in part on 11 messages he sent to adviser who oversaw hit squad around time it killed journalist

Updated Dec. 1, 2018 1:33 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON—Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent at least 11 messages to his closest adviser, who oversaw the team that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in the hours before and after the journalist’s death in October, according to a highly classified CIA assessment.

The Saudi leader also in August 2017 had told associates that if his efforts to persuade Mr. Khashoggi to return to Saudi Arabia weren’t successful, “we could possibly lure him outside Saudi Arabia and make arrangements,” according to the assessment, a...
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10. Saudi crown prince exchanged messages with aide alleged to have overseen Khashoggi killing

Source: Washington Post

Saudi crown prince exchanged messages with aide alleged to have overseen Khashoggi killing

By Shane Harris and
Souad Mekhennet December 1 at 8:18 PM

In the hours before and after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a senior aide who allegedly oversaw the assassination exchanged multiple messages, according to people familiar with the matter.

The communications between the two men are another piece of evidence tying the crown prince to the killing of Khashoggi, a former palace insider turned prominent critic, who also was a contributing columnist to The Washington Post.

The CIA included the existence of the messages in its classified assessment that Mohammed is likely to have ordered Khashoggi’s death, a view that agency officials have shared with members of Congress and the White House.

Mohammed exchanged the messages on Oct. 2 with Saud al-Qahtani, one of his closest aides and a fierce public supporter who has kept a blacklist of those he deems disloyal to the kingdom. The content of the messages, and what form the messages took, was not known, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/saudi-crown-prince-exchanged-messages-with-aide-alleged-to-have-overseen-khashoggi-killing/2018/12/01/faa43758-f5c3-11e8-9240-e8028a62c722_story.html

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11. Does that guy MBS strike you as excessively creepy?

He makes me cringe.