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An autopsy expert. A lookalike. A black van, the 15-man Saudi hit team that killed and dismembered the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
there were 15 of them .most arrivde int he dead of night ,laid their trap and waited for the target to arrive.
that target ws jamal khashoggi, a prominent saudi crtic of his country’d govrernment
and its young crown prince.
” he is crating an nvironment of intimidation and fear saudis are being silenced.”
-jamal khashoggi
since his killing in istanbul ,turkish media
has releseadr a steady drip feed of evidence implicating sauid officials
weeks of investigation by the new york times.
builds on that evidence and reconstrstructions what unfolded ,hour -by -hours.
the timeline shows the ruthless efficiency of a hit team of experts that seemed specially chosen from saudi government ministries.
some had links to the crown prince himself.
after a series of shiftinge explanations
saudi arabia now denies that thisbrasen hit job was premeditated.
but this reconstruction of the killing
and the botched cover up .
calls their story into serious question.
4 DAYS BEFORE : KHASHOGGI DISAPPEARS.
It’s friday morning ,sept 28. khashoggi and hisfiancée ,hatice cengiz, are at the local marriage office in istanbul.in order to marry ,he’s told that he needs saudi paperwork
and goes straight to the consulate to arrange it. they tell him to return in a week.
it all seems routine , but it’s not.
inside there’s a saudi spy, ahmed al – muzaini, who’s eokring under diplomati cover.
that very day ,he flies off toRiyadh. and helps concoct a plan
to intercept khashoggi when he return to the coinsulate.
12 HOURS BEFORE :KHASHOGGI DISAPPEARS.
fast forward to monday night into tuesday morning.saudi agents converge in istanbul
aboard separate flights . muzaini ,the spy , flies back from Riyadh
a commercial flight carries a three men team. that believes flew from cairo. two of the men are security officers. and they they ‘ve previously traveled with the cown prince.
a private jet flying from Riyadh lands around 3: 30 a.m. that plan is often used by the saudi gorernment, and it’s carrying nine saudi officials
some who played key roles in khashoggis death. well ‘ get to team 3 later on
and for now focus on these men from team 2
this is salah al -tubaigy , a high- ranking forensics and atopsy expert in the saudi interior ministry.
Turkish officialswill later say say his role was to dismember khashoggi´s body.
another is mutafa al madani, a 57 -year old engineer . As we see it’s no accident that he lools lile khashoggi.
and this is maher mutreb , the leader of the operation.our investigation into his past reveals a direct link between mutreb and the saudi crown prince .
MONTHS EARLIER.
When bin salman toured a housteon neighborhood. early this new york times discovered that mutreb was with him , a glowering figure in the background
new york times found him again in boston , at a U.N . meetin in new york.
madrid
and paris too.
Those global tour was all part of a charm offensive by the prince to paint himself as a moderate reformer .
back then mutrerb was in the royal guard.noe ,he would ochestrate khashoggi’s kiling. and his cloe ties to the crown prince breg the question, just how high up saudi chain of command did the plot to koll go?
9 HOURS BEFORE : KHASHOGGI DISAPPEARS.
kahsohigggi fiesw back from a weekend trip from london., he and the saudis cros spatsg att he airport
the saudi teams check into two hotels. which give qick access to the consualate.
he’d just bought an apartment for their new life togheter.
3 HOURS BEFORE KHASOGGI DISAPPEAS.
by mid-morning the saudis are on the move.
mutreb levaes his hotel, three hours be khasgoggi is due at the consulate.
the rest of the team isn’t far behind.
the building is 5 minutes by foot.
and soon, they’re spotted at this entrancenc.mutreb arrives first.
next we see al -tubagaiy.
and now al-mandani the lookalike .
the stage is almost set . a dilp,atic car pulls out of the consulate driveway.
and switches places with a van ,which backs in. tukish officals say th isvan would vould eventually carry away khashoggi’s remains.
from abow we cansee the driveway,is covered hiding any activitiy around the van from public view.
45 MINUTES BEFORE KHASOGGI IDSAPPEARS.
khasoggi and his fianceé set out fot the consulate, walking hand in hand.
1 :13 pm they arrive at the consulate
khashoggi gives her his celhones before he enters.
he walks int otheconsulate.
inside, kahshoggi isbrought to the consul general’s office. the hit team is waiting in a nearby room.sourced briefed on the evidence ,told us kahshoggi qickly come to an attack.he’s dragged to another room and is killed witing minutes.
then al – tubagaiy, the autospy expert dismembers his body while listening to music.
maher mutreb makes a phone call to a superior,he say”tell you boss ,” and “The deed was done”
2 HOURS AFTER KHASHOGIGI DISAPPEARS.
outside, the van reportedly carrying khashoggi’s body pulls out side entrance and drive away.
at the same time begin saudi trying to cover their tracks. while khashoggis fiancee waits here.where she left him ,two figures leves from the opposite side
one of them is wearing jamal ‘s slothes.
late ,the sauids would claim that this was kahshoggi.
but it’s al madani , the engingeer, noe abody double pretending that he missing journalist left the consulate alive,
yet ,the clothes are the same, but he’s wearing his own sneakers . the one he walked in with.
meanwhile , the van that’s allegedly carrying khashoggi’s boddy make the two minutes drive
from the consulcante to the saudi’s residentce. there’s svereral minutes of deliberation
but the van eventuall pulls into the building’s driveway. again, it’s hidden from public view.
3 HOURS AFTER KHASHOGGI DISSAPEAR.
its now three hours since khashoggi was last seen.
the body double hails this taxi and continues weaving a fals trail through the city.
he heads to a popular toirust area, and then chanhes back into his own clothes.
later , we see him joking around un surveillance footage.
over at the airport, more saudi officials arrived on another flight from riyadh. they spend just five hours in Instanbul, bue we´re not sure where they go.
4 HOURS AFTER KHASHOGGI DISAPPEARS.
now we pick up maher mutreb again ,exiting from the consul´s house. its time for them to go.
mutreb and others check out of their hotel
and move through aurport security.
Al- muzini,the spy heads to the airport too.
khashoggi’s fiancée is still outside the consulate pacing in cicles.she’ll soon raise the alarm that khashoggi is missing and she´ll wait for him untill midnight.
9 DAYS AFTER KHASHOGGIS DISAPPEARS.
the alarm spreads around the world
nine days later, the saudis send another team to instanbul, they say it’s to investigate what happened.
but among them are a toxicologist
and a chemist ,who also has ties to the hit team
he and tubaigy attended a forensics graduation
days before khashoggi was killed.
Turkish officials later say that this team’s mission was not to investigte , but to cover up the killing.
now the saudi story Has changed, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for several suspects in khashoggi’s killing.
but that doesn’t include . crown prince Mohammed bin salman.who many western government officials are convinced authoirzed the killing.
khashoggi’s remains still havent been found.
CRIMESCENE PHOTOS
Turkish police at the Saudi consulate
Police wait for forensic experts to arrive at a residence of Consul General of Saudi Arabia Mohammad al-Otaibi in Istanbul. Photo: Reuters
Jamal Khashoggi’s remains were reportedly found in the garden of the Saudi consul’s official residence
Investigators search suitcases and possessions believed to belong to Jamal Khashoggi
Turkish video shows ” khashoggi remain’s “in wheeled suitcases
A picture released by TRT World on October 2 shows a Turkish police forensic expert inspecting a tandoori oven as part of investigation into Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
New details of the writer’s murder by a Saudi assassination team were reported in a documentary by Al Jazeera Arabic that aired on Sunday night.
Turkish authorities monitored the burning of the outdoor furnace as bags believed to be carrying Khashoggi’s body parts were transferred to the Saudi consul’s house after he was killed inside the consulate a few hundred meters away.
A worker who constructed the furnace said it was built according to specifications from the Saudi consul. It had to be deep and withstand temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius – hot enough to melt metal.
Bags of meat were also cooked in the oven after the killing in order to cover up the cremation of the Saudi writer’s body, authorities reported.
Turkish investigators also found traces of Khashoggi’s blood on the walls of the Saudi consul’s office after removing paint that the assassination team applied after killing the Washington Post columnist on October 2, 2018.
The documentary was based on interviews with security officials, politicians, and some of Khashoggi’s Turkish friends.
Turkish police search Saudi Consul’s residence after recording leak | Daily Mail Online
Did the Saudi state plan the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi? Was Khashoggi so much of a threat to the Saudi regime that it was prepared to commit a terrible crime to get rid of him? This documentary reconstructs Jamal Khashoggi’s personal plans and movements in his final days.
It also examines records, leaks and reports related to his assassination, as well as motivations that may have led Saudi Arabia to commit such a shocking crime.
The torys’s key feature is exclusive testimony from Khashoggi’s close circle, including from his fiancée Hatice Cengiz. She tells of her emotional struggle in dealing with his death; hoping against hope he was still alive despite accounts of how he was killed; the struggle to discover his fate; and the pain of not knowing where his body is.
The documentary also uncovers how the Saudi government handed the incident, including the attempts it made to cover up the story. In London, Washington, Istanbul and Montreal, the film visits and speaks with Khashoggi’s friends, security experts, analysts and activists. The events surrounding Khashoggi’s killing and the assassination itself are reconstructed in reenactments and with aerial photographs, graphics and animations, including archive footage.
In the words of one official close to the case, UN Special Rapporteur Agnès Callamard: “There is credible evidence that requires further investigation into the involvement of senior Saudi officials in the crime, including the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman himself.”
as investigatior try to find out what happened to jamal kashoggi saudi arabia confirms that the journalist jamal khashoggi is dead.
On October 1 st , 2018 nothing seemed out of the ordinart in belgrad forsesst , north of istanbul.
it was amonday -the start of the work week – and thefall weater drew few visitors.
just before sunset CCTV cameras picked up a car belonging to the saudi consulante in istanbul. as it past through a security gate.
it would later emerge in reports Turkish daily sabah that it was carrying the consulate’s military attache. ahmed abdullah al-muzaini on what turkish intelligence called a” surveillance mission”
according to sabha al – muzaini had returned e from said arabia earler that day earlier that day with a plan to liquidate saudi journalist jamal khashoggi.
on June 21 , 2017,prince mohammed bin salman was apointed crown prince of saudi arabia.
the journalist jamal khashohhi had long been close to the ryoal family.but with the rise of mohammed bin salman ,he had fallen out of favor.
banned from writing and tweeting he faced increasing repressinon, and began to fear for his life. he flad the kindom that same months.
and though he remained supportive of the saudi mornachy and the crown prince’s 2023 reform agenda, become a vocal critic of saudi arepresesion and policies.
from his self -imposed ecile in the united states.
the pressure increased in 2014 or 2015, he was banned from writing .ministry of information decided to publish the letter banning from writting.
in early 1980s, jama khashoggi received a buisness degree from indiana state university. he then began working as a journalist
laters serving as media advisor to ambassador prince Tuki -Faisal in washington.
while he was in instabull to arrange their marriage one of his son’s came to vistit him. he wanted to live in instabul to be near to his family.
kahsoggi had four children. wtih his first wife. his second marriage also ended in divorce.
in may 2010 he marrided dr, alaa nassif.
serveral months after khashoggi left saudi arabia that mariage also endend.rumors that the journalist had been put under official pessure. to agreed to the divorse.
he wasn’t very happy . he was worried. he one time told a friend, his two sons complain to him that they are held hostage because of him.
they couldn’ travel .he said they were both bankers and their work required them to travel and they could not leave the kingdom. their passports were confiscated , and they were blaming him. and that really caused lots of guilt.
he told his friend he felt guilty thathe is causing their stredd and suffering.
In August ,2017, khashoggi tweeted for the first time from exile in the united states.
i returned to writing and tweeting , grateful to his highness the minister of information for his kind efforst gratitud and loyalty to theroyal crown prince.
no free pen is broken and no tweeter is silenced under his reign.
-Jamal
coming from a man in self- imoposed exile, the tweet seemed confusing and raised questions about his relationship with his native country.
back in 2016 the saudi authorities had banned khashoggi from writing and tweeting.
he was informed by saudi al- Qahtani an advisor to ther crown prince in a telephone call
which khashoggi later described in a television interview.
” i realized how degrading it would be if i agreed to such a thing. that an offficial could prevent me from writing or tweeting , over the phone.”
-jamal
in september 2017, khasoggi started writing for the washington post .
his column extended his readership and infuence beyond the middle East.
for the saudis ,this was the scariest thing they guy writes for a paper that’s read all over the world. that are by decision makers in the US.
the image that mohammed bin salman painted of himself in the west. in america , london and paris with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on publick relations. was destroyed by khashoggi’s one, singel article published in the washington post.
” as we speak today , there are saudi intellectuals and journalists jailed, now nobody will dare to speak and criticize the reform they like.”
-jamal
Saudi intelligence was monitoring khashoggi’s writing and movement and were breifing the crown prince and heir to the throne.
” every thing that write , i write as an honest advisor .”
-Jamal.
the saudis tried to tempt the journalist to return, a source close to khashoggi said that the crown prince’s advisor,saud . al.-Qahtani, contacted him twice by phone.
he said that mohammed bin salman trusted khashoggi implicitly abd that the dirrs if ther royal court would be ope n for him whenever he chose to return.
the same source said thatr the saudi government maintained communication with khashoggi and made him several offers.
including managing a saudi funded media network, if he were return.
Jamal knows the saudi regime very well. he has been there.
he has been serving in the embassy in london ,the embassy in washington.was the editor of al watan newspaper.his knowledge of the regim added credibilitiy to his professional as a journalist when he spoke out.
khashoggi continued his crtism of the crown prince in the washington post.
jamal spoke to a friend two days before his murder,that he is working with other friends to establish a foundation for democracy in the Arab world.
promoting the culture of democracy amongst they youth people and also creating some form of societal reconciliation.
khashoggi’s efforts included support fro the project ” electronic bees”
with canadian based saudi activist omar abdulazeez, who was seeking to counter the saudi government’s on some harassment of critics of ther regime
during may and july 2018, many activists noticed that there was an organized attempt to attack them online ,specically on social media.
khashoggi was a key target,so omar , studdied how those electronic attacks worked.omar wanted to put together a project that aimed to stop them.
omar resented the idea to jamal khashoggi and he liked it as did other people like tarek al mutairy from kuwait.they decided to establish a team that would counter those attacks.khashoggi supported us and contributed 5000 out of his own pocket to help fund the project.
in instabull DW (DW is a germany public service- company) spoked with a political cientist about another major project that khashoggi launched from the turkish city via a number of media platforms.DW contacted several of khashoggi’s assistants
But they were reluctant to talk in detail ,because they didn’t want to jeopardize the future of their project.
meanwhile , back int the saudi capital of Riyadh a small cell was formed to decide what to do about khashoggi .they weighed up different options.
as new information became available, they formulated a course of action.they decided ti silence khashoggi ,for good.
in september , jamal khashoggi left the united states for what would be the lst time. he boarded turkish airlines fligtht TK8 from washington .arriving at istanbul’s Airport just before sunset on september 10th. september ,2018.he planned to stay until the 17th of october to finalize his wedding arrangements.
The Turkish scholar Hatice cengiz met jamal khashoggi when she inverviewed him at a conference in instabul in may 2018 . this was the first of several meetings.that summer ,jamal khashoggi proposed – ans she accepted.
jamal was full of hope because he is about to get married.he wanted to establish a new life, the flat he bought, the furniture that he is going to put in the flat. and the fact that he is go t the consulante to get some documents.
from istanbul , khashoggi went to london for several days. returning to instanbul at 4:07 am on frideay , the 28th of september.
at 9: 24 that morning.the couple went to the municipal office in the fatih district. to complete the formalities for their marriage. they weere told they needed a certifacate confirming that they both were single. without that they wouldn’t be able to marry.and he would have to go to the saudi consulate to get that certificatete
jamal khashoggi and Hatice Cengiz took a taxi to the saudi consulant.
he left his phone with Hatice before going in . she wasn’t allowed to go in only people who had to obtain paperwork were mermitted to enter.
he stayed inside for about an hour.Hatice was relieved they were both relieved ehen he came out of the consulate. e said that they had treared him well.
during his 90-minute visit at the consulate, khashogi was told hid documents would be ready within the next few days.
that same evening he returned to london,he had spent less than a day in istanbul.
on the 29th of september , khashoggi gave a talk at a symposium on the future of peace 25 years after the Oslo Accords.
he posted two tweets about the even.
and then what would be his last tweet.
“young prince nohammed bin salman, the saudi arab crown prince reached a deal with kushner and they even went as far as agreeing….
-jamal.
” i was one of the last people to meet him before he disappearead, he was here with me in this office.we spent lunch together and then he went to the airport. i folllowed him the following day to istanbul,because he was supposed to appear on my TV show.
but by the time i arrived in istanbul he was gone . and i can tell that when we met here jamal seemed quite comfortable and excited about ther prosepects of marriage.we discussed a project he had in mind and that is to set up a website to publish translations of reports and artciles and analyses on the economic situation of saudi arabia and the region”
-Azzam tamimi.
In london , khashoggi called the saudi consulate in instanbul.they told him that his papers were ready , and he should ccome on tuesday , october 2, at 1:30 pm to collect them.kahshoggi left london to return to istanbul, on what would be his final journey
on this visit kashoggi did not stay in an istanbul hotel. but ain a near apartment he had bought for himself and Hatice to live after the wedding.
Hatice had been busy moving furniture and supplies to the apartment.only a few items remained, which khashoggi planned to buy after his retrun from the consulate.
the couple had breakfast at a resturant in the residential complex. they had a lot to talk about -espceially their upcoming wedding.
” we discussed the weeding date, and al lthe details. how to organize it and who to invite.i asked him i f someone would go with him to the consulate, and he said he would go along or with a friend.
so i told him i would go with him , and skip my university seminar.then he called the consulate to confirm his appointment.they said they would call him back.”
-Hatice
half an hour later they called and gave him an appointment at 1 ,pm. then took a taxi and went to the consulate.
the consulate was located almost 15 km from the apartment
meanwhile – in the early hours of that same morning. the planes carrying the team of assasssins had arrived in istanbul. three members of mohammed bin salman’s special protection Unit came on a commercial flight from Cairo.
Two private jets coming from Riyad landed an hour apart on a private runway the first plan , tail registration HZ-SK1 landed at 3:30 a.m. carrying the head of the assassination team , maher al mutrib.and eight other men, including two of the key players .
the teams checked into two hotels near the saudi consulate. surveillance cameras in both hotels showed the men lieaving at 9:40 and 10.:15 a.m.
surveillance cameras at the consulate momitored their arrival.
” turkish authorities , let’s say , leaked all the recordings that two planes came from saudi arabia to the ataturk international airport. and 15 men checked in a hotel in istanbul and before khashoggi arrived to the consulate, they entered to the consulate with a car . with a tinted window that you cannot see inside. “
-Yusuf Alabarda
“the fact that that team arrived in turkey ,the circumstances of what they actually did the timings concerned and also the composition of those people.
in terms of their forensic expertise. their ranking; one at least is alleged to be a very senior ranking intelligence officer, and the fact that it’s also claimed that at least 7 of that team are extremely close in terns of the security inner cirlce of the crown prince himself.
all of this is very strong circumstantial evidence. it all suggests that not only were these people implicated in whatever has happened. it also suggests that what the intention actually was.
– charles shoebridge
At 1:14 pm, surveillance cmaeras showed jamal khashoggi entering the consulate. he gave Hatice his mobile phone and left her waiting for him outside.
At 4 :00 in the afternoon , khashoggi had still not emerged. Hatice Cengiz contacted Yasin aktay and turan kislakci.
” at 3 :30 pm i started asking myself why jamal hadn’t come out. i got up and started walking around”
-Hatice
” i was checking the cars coming out of the consulate. and trying to understand what was happening.i never thought anything bad would happen.or that anything like that could happen.”
-Hatice
i felt something had gone wrong and started thinking about what to do. i went to the endtrance and said i was waiting for jamal who hadn´t come out yet.
-Hatice
“the officer sid that there was no one inside. everyone had left.i asked myself what i should do .i found the consulate’s phone number and called them. i said i was jama’s fianceé and i was waiting at the entrance. but thet he had gone insiden and not come out . the officer hung up the phone and came to the door. he said ‘ there’s nobody inside, there’s no point waiting ‘ my legs started trembing , and i thoguht about calling mr yasin .”
-Hatice
” she said she was jamal khashoggi’s fianceé , so i asked what had happened. she said jamal had entered the consualte five hours earlier, and still hadn’t come out .
that’s when i knew there was as serious problem.i wasn’t aware of how dangerous it might be for khashoggi to go into the consulate.”
-Yasin Aktay
” told hatice to wait until i made som calls .i called the chief of general intelligence hakan fidan. then i called the president’s office. and i told some of jama’s firends about what had happened.
after about three and a half hours of work on the part of the intelligence agency,it became clear that jamal khashoggi had disappeared.”
-Yasin Aktay
as international speculation about khashoggi’s fate grew, one theory was that he had been kidnapped as part of an illegal operation to take him back to saudi arabia.
the British daily ,the Guardian expressed concerned that khshoggi might have been detained,smuggled out of the saudi consulate in istanbul in a diplomatic vehicle, and then transferred back to saudi arabia.
According to the information we have , the saudi citixen is still in the saudi arabian consulate in istanbul.we don’t have any inormation besides that .”
-ibrahim kalin
That statement by the Turkish presidental spokesman was made on october , 3, the day after khashoggi failed to emerge from the saudi consulate.
for days later,president erdogan said that Turkish prosecutors were conducting an extensive investigation, looking into all camera records and monitoring incoming and outgoign airport transits.he added that he still hoped for a positive outcome.
meawhile , the Turkish foregn ministry had summoned the saudi ambassador demanding clarification on October 4.
That resulted in the first official statement by the saudi consulate general in istanbul. on Twitter , it said that the consulate was “following up on media reports” about the disappearance of the saudi citizen and journalist jamal khashoggi after he left the saudi consulate in istanbul.
it also said it was coordinating with turkish authorities to : ‘ uncover the facts behind his going missing after exiting .”
in a wide-ranging interview with blomberg news agency just a day after khashoggi’s disappearance, crown prince mohammed bin salman said :” my understanding is he entered and got out after a few minutes , an hour .” the crown prince also stated that khashoggi wasn’t inside the consulate. and he added” if he were in saudi arabia , i wuld know that.”
” we kept going to the consulate for the first three days. we waited from morning till evening , because we thought jamal was inside. then saudi arabia released a statement saying that jamal had left a while after entering.this was during the first week. then i stopped going there, as i believed that jamal was no longer in the consulate.i thought they had taken him to saudi arabia or somewhere else.”
-Hatice
at the very beginning of the event that as happened,mr erdogan openly said that unless kingdom of saudi arabian authoritites clearly show that he has left the consulate all the responsibilitites belong to the saudi arabian authorities.
and then you know that saudi arabian officials and their social media army started to propaganda about that mr . khashoggi has left the consulate.
and this is a very detailed plan and action of Turkish intelligence agency. they are trying to blame saudi arabia, and the other such kind of ridiculous story , farbricated stories.
– Yusuf
the first report that khashoggi had been killed surfacef five days after his disappearance.reuters news agency quoted a Turkish official,who said the initial assessment by Turkish polices was that he had been murdered at the consulate. and his body fown out of the country.
The saudi consulate issued a denial, saying that jamal khashoggi was neither inside the consulate nor inside saudi arabia.
it also deied that khashoddi had been kille in the consulate and said every effort was being made to find him.
in october 6th ,the saudi consul in istanbul mohammed al – otaibi, invited reporters from Reuters to the consulate and accomapnied them on tour to confirm that khashoggi was not inside the building. the consul denied reports of an assassination
he insisted khashoggi had left the building.but said he could not prove it
because the consulante’s surveillance cameras did not save images
then we understodd that something is going wrong because if someone is missing in your consulate.
-Yusuf
you have to prove that he left the consulate with the video recordings.
-Yusuf
but why would you have a CCTV system that isn’t working or doesn’t redord? it seems impossible to believe.
-charles shoebridge.
the only reason why you would not have a redording system is lack of money. and this is isnt’t something that afflicts saudi arabia for sure.
– charles shoebridge
on mondey october the 8th, US president donald trump issued his first public statement on the case.
at the same time the saudi ambassadorr to the US. prince khalid bin salman bin abdulaziz.stated publicly that allegations claiming khashoggi hadbeen killed or detained by the saudi authorities were completely false and unfounded.he then left for saudi arabia on the pretex of seking clarification
“just spoke with the king of saudi arabia,the king firmly denied any knwoledge of it. he didn’treally know . maybe.i don’t want to get into his mind,but it sounded to me like maybe this could have been rogue killers.who knows.”
-Trump
” from the first day, trump administration wanted to give an exit for mohammed bin salman,of course we know the strong ties between trump and mohammed bin salman and we know that trump started speaking about the rogue elements before even the saudi gorernment came up twith this terminology.
so he wanted to give themnthe exit, therefore they can use it in order to cover up the crime. and this unfortunaltely was the role of trump administration.”
-wadah khanfar
“i received an invitation from president trump a few weeks after the incident, he invited me to the united states i didn’t see it as a positive gesture. i saw it as a poitical trick to get public opinion on his side. the united states should have done something to find out what really happened.”
-Hatice
on October 8th ,the turkish daily yeni safak reported that the intelligence services were analyzing the movement of 26 cars ownd by the saudi consulate in instabul.
it said they wanted to determine their whereabouts on the day jamal khashoggi went missing.
CCTV cameras close to the saudi consulate showed two cars, mercedes vito with the license number 34 CC 1865
and another mercedes with the license number 34 CC 33 48
driving to the saudi consul’s bouse an hour and 50 minutes after khashoggi had entered the consulate. there were parked in the garage there for three days.
on the fourth day they were taken to a car wash near the consulate. these images from inside the car wash,showing the two vehicles being carefully cleaned .
Turkish investigators believe that khashoggi’s dismembered body was transported from the consulate
to consul’s house in the mercedez vito
grusemome details began emerging in media reports on the 9th and 10th of october
In the US. the washington post published the CCTV video of jamal khashoggi entering the consulate at 1. pm.on tuesday the 2nd of october.
On the 10th of october, the BBC reporterd that Turkish media had pictures and names of the men they said were members of the assassination squad.
the new york times also ran the story. reporting that khashoggi had been dismembered with a bone saw two hours after his death, and that the orders to assassinate him had been issued from the highest levels of the saudi royal court.
“the hitman said that they were tourists.but tourists don’t normally go to the consulate for a few hours and then return to the airport.
they first went to the hotel ,then to hamidiye market herer in instabul, where they purchased 16 or 20 large suitcases.
then they went to the consulate, then the consul´house, the to the hotel and then they left.their hotel reservation wad for four days but hey stayed 10 hours. why is that?
-turan kislacki.
“When we saw those 15 guy’s picures and identifications,we realized that those guys are really close members of as bodyguards and other issues.
-Ysuf alabarda
eleven days afterkhashoggi’s disappearance,donald trump was still insisting on CBSs”60 minutes” that the crown prince had denied any knwoledge ow what had happened but he wanred saudi arabia of severe repercussions if it was proven that khashoggi had been killed.
“theres is something, youl’ll be suprised when you hear me say that,there’s something really terrible and disgusting about that.if that would be the case so,we’re going to have to see.we’re going to get tothet bottom of it and there will be serevere punishment.”
-Trump
if they go on to claime that these people were acting without the authoritity of the saudi government then ofcourse they can prove by relinquishing the diplomatic immunity of these people and extraditingthem to turkey for trial .but if tat happens of couse there is a very big risk that those people who are put on ttrial for this capital offense, will name the people that made the decisions,and that may not be vonvenient of course to the saudi gorvernment
-charles shoebridge.
on the same day the britich french and german foreign ministers issued a joint statement calling for an independen investigation.
” of course the gorvenments in britain and america would like to draw a line under this and pretend it hadn’t happened.but i think public ressures are forcing the media to then force the forernments in the west to actually , at least in the short term , appear to be taking action. and that of course is an error of judgement from the saudi persepective”
-charles shoebridge.
on october 15th the saudi press agency( saudi Gazette) reported that king salman had received a phone call from donald trump,hwo had ” praised the progress” of the saudi-turkish cooperation in investigation jamal khashoggi’s disappearence.
that same day saudi and Turkish officials entered the consulate, they arrived with a joint team led by istanbul´s deputy general prosecutor and counterterrorism agents.
That evening Turkish forensic investigators was finally allowed to search the building.
they worked nine hours through the night, until dawn on the 16 th of october.
the forensic team left carrying samples of soil and a metal door from the consulate garden.
media attention then quicly switched tothe consul’s house,which was also subjected to forensic inspection.
on the 16 th october ,the consul general mohammed al Otaibi left instanbul for saudi arabia amidrumors of his impending arrest.
“after all those forensic investigation mr erdogan made a couple of telephone calls with international leaders including king salman of the kindom of saudi arabia. and after that the saudi arabia had realized that the fabricated story of khashoggi has left the consulate is incredible, so they accepted that mr khashoggi has been killed inside the consulate
– Yusuf Alabarda
the DW camera team was able to monitor the frequent movement of saud security staff between the consulate and the consul’s house from the 12th to the 17th october. from this fotage DW camera team determined that this team included cchemical expert ahmed abdul asiz al janabi
and toxicologist khaled yahila al -zahrani ,they were among the group that turkish media reported had deliberately destroyed evidence at the consulate nad the consul´s house.
on october 20,th, afterrepeated denials.saudi arabia finally admitted that jamal khashoggi was dead . a statement byt he saudi public prosecutor announced the arrest of 18 saudis for questioning and suggested an ‘altercation’ and ‘fistfight’had led to khashoggi’s death.
on october 21 st, king salman and the crown prince made two phone calls to salah khashoggi .jamal ‘s son to offer their condolences.
on the 23 rd of october,they summed him and his brother sahel khashoggi toRiyadh, using the meeting as a photo opportunity.
ankara’s strategy of leaking evidence finally brought saudi attorney -general saud al mujib to turkey. he arrived on the 29th of october on a privat plane.
he then held two meetings in the judical palace with istanbul’s chief prosecutor ifan fidan.
whose office then made a formal satement
‘despite all our efforts and good intentons about the killing of khashoggi in his countri’s consulate’
the statement went on to say that immediately after entering the consulate,jamal khashoggi had been strangled to death as part of a premeditated plan
and that his body had been dismembered and disposed of in the wake of the public prosecutor’s statement,official position in the case became entrenched
the Turkish authorities stood by their account of the events.saudi arabia continued to contest the leaks by the Turkish government.
and the trump administration continued to defend crown prince mohammed bin salman , anxious to protect US buisness interests.
some members of the US house and senate defied the administration criticizing trumps actions
and demanding that saudi arabia
and the crown prince he held to account.
there was little response from arab countries.
the CIA has concluded through its investigations that the saudi crown prince ordered the murder of washinghton post journalist jamal khashohggi.
and Trump administration touched off a new storm of ctiticism over the killing of saudi writer jamal khashoggi
The US has sanctioned some saudis in response,for the croiwn prince has yet to face any punishment.
the passage of time has done little to diminish interest in the case. a united nations investigation authenticated the aduo recordings leaked Turkish intelligence.
these showed that jamal kahashoggi entered the consulate.1:15 mp on the 2nd of october.
he went to the consul general office.
where mohammed al otaibi was with maher al -mutrib,
an officer from the saudi foreign ministry. and a special guard to the crown prince mohammed bin salman.
they questioned khashoggi about his plans to return to saudi arabia. he sad that he did want to return in the future . then they said they would havet to take him back.
claiming there was an interpol order to that effect. khashoggi said there was no cse against him, and that he people waiting for him outside the consulate.
the recordings then document a short fight,followed by a conversation among the members of the asassination team.
transcript of turkish adui suveillance redordings , october 2, 200 18
-is he a sleep?
-he’s raising his head.
-keep pushing.. push here. dont remove your hand . push.
according to the U.N investigation.khashoggi was then injected with a sedative and suffercated with a plastic bag. then a forensic pathologist on the team ,
salah al tubaigy, started dismembering khashoggi’s body. aout two hours later the audio recoing picked up 3 different voicec from the stairs.
one ordered the visa lounge to be closed . another man believed to bi an IT technician transerfered CCTV data and reset srveillace cameras .
the third was mustafa al madani, jamal khashoggi’s lookalike.Al madani appeared to be complaining about wearing khashoggis clotes:”shouting it’scary to wear someone clothes who was kille 2o minutes agon”. khashogies shoes didn’t fit him him probebly so the team leaders aloud him to kip his running shoes on.
al madani was instructed to walk along four streets
before taking a taxi to the sultan ahmed district.
where he disposed of khashoggi’s clothes.
the results of the United nations investigation were publish in june 2019.the UN.
special Arabitrary executons ,agnes callamard, called for further investigantions saying there there was “credible evidence” that crown prince mohammed bin salman and other saudi senior officals were liable for the killing.
she sad khashoggie had been the victim of deliberate ,premeditated execution ,an extrajudicial killing for which the state of saudi arabia was resposible.under international human right s law.
months since he was killed ,jamal khashoggi’s body has yet to be found.
Saudi arabia has denied involvement in the disappeareance of khashoggi….
Turkish newspaper is now reporting, that khashoggi’s apple watch recorded evidence of his murder….
now the world waits to see how the inited states will respond…
killing and dismembering his body , there nedds tobe some consequences….
jamal khahoggi’s death was no accident.
“all want is to be an independent writer,not to be banned from writiting wihle at home in jeddah,or banned from appearing in the media , banned from publushing books.i felt i couldn’t enjoy my freedom while remaining silent.”
-jamal khashoggi.