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Turkey Says that a Missing Critic of the Saudi Government was Killed in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul

posted by martyb on Friday October 12 2018, @11:18PM   

takyon writes:

Turkey 'has recording proving Saudi murder'

Turkish officials have audio and video evidence that shows missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was tortured and killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the BBC has learned.

Mr Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, has not been seen since he entered the building on 2 October.

Turkish intelligence had "documented evidence" of the murder, a source close to the investigation said.

Saudi Arabia denies the allegations. It says the journalist left the building.

Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance and reported death have prompted international outrage and dented business confidence in Saudi Arabia. Tycoon Sir Richard Branson has halted talks over $1bn Saudi investment in Virgin space firms and several top business leaders have pulled out of a Saudi investment conference later this month.

Also at CNN.

See also: CNBC withdraws from Saudi conference over concerns about journalist Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance

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• Re:We’re demanding everything about Jamal. Re:We’re demanding everything about Jamal. (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:47AM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 13 2018, @12:47AM (#748130)

  A very good argument for the mobilization of the international working class on the basis of a revolutionary, socialist program. Murder in Istanbul [wsws.org]:

  As more and more details emerge about the disappearance on October 2 of the well-known Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, it is becoming clear that a monstrous crime has been committed with serious worldwide implications.

  The Turkish media has published photographs and video footage documenting the arrival at Ataturk airport—on the same day as Khashoggi’s disappearance—of a 15-member Saudi death squad. It included two air force officers, intelligence operatives and members of the elite personal guard of the Saudi monarchy. Also among them, according to Turkish authorities, was a forensics expert, who reportedly came equipped with a bone saw.

  Turkish media reports indicate that Khashoggi had visited the consulate a week earlier seeking documents he needed for his planned marriage to a Turkish woman. He was told to return on October 2 at 1 p.m. Local staff were instructed to take the afternoon off as the 15 state assassins arrived. Khashoggi was, according to accounts of Turkish security officials speaking on condition of anonymity, dragged from the consul’s office and killed, and his body then dismembered with the saw.

  It appears, however, that the US government was well informed of Saudi plans to eliminate Khashoggi, with the Washington Post reporting that before his disappearance, US intelligence had intercepted communications between Saudi officials revealing a plan to abduct the journalist.

  Before Khashoggi’s disappearance, an estimated 30 Saudi journalists had already been imprisoned or disappeared, without any protest from the Western powers, the US chief among them, who sell billions of dollars in arms to the kingdom and profit off its oil wealth.

  The US-Saudi connection has grown only closer under the Trump administration, which has sought to forge an anti-Iranian axis based upon Saudi Arabia and Israel, while continuing and expanding US aid to the near-genocidal war against the people of Yemen.

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• Re:We’re demanding everything about Jamal. (Score: 0, Troll) by legont on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:21AM

  by legont (4179) on Saturday October 13 2018, @02:21AM (#748146)

  Bezos's Post journalist, mind you.

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  "Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.

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• Re:We’re demanding everything about Jamal. (Score: 3, Informative) by driverless on Saturday October 13 2018, @10:23AM

  by driverless (4770) on Saturday October 13 2018, @10:23AM (#748256)

  Before Khashoggi’s disappearance, an estimated 30 Saudi journalists had already been imprisoned or disappeared, without any protest from the Western powers, the US chief among them, who sell billions of dollars in arms to the kingdom and profit off its oil wealth

  A generalisation of this is:

  He may be a son of a bitch but he's our son of a bitch.

  First said about Syngman Rhee by, I believe, Dean Acheson, but pretty much the standard comment for every dictatorial regime the US government has supported over the decades.

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