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Jamal Khashoggi is dead, Saudi Arabian state television confirms
  • Fight broke out between Khashoggi and those who met him consulate, announcement said
  • Gen Ahmed al-Asiri is sacked from intelligence position

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Jamal Khashoggi at a press conference in Manama on 15 December 2014. Photograph: Mohammed Al-Shaikh/AFP/Getty Images

Saudi Arabia has admitted journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared after visiting the country’s consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, is dead. Riyadh claimed, however, that he was killed in a “fight” with Saudi officials.

The Saudi regime also announced a purge of senior officials including Saud al-Qahtani, an influential advisor to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and General Ahmed al-Asiri, a senior intelligence official. Both men have been fired. Eighteen Saudi nationals were said to have been arrested.

The news, which cited preliminary findings from an official investigation, was announced on state television on Friday. The purge appeared to be aimed at insulating the crown prince and protecting his position. It was reported that he would remain overall head of intelligence.

The claim that Khashoggi, a 59-year-old writer and critic of the Saudi royals, died in a fight with Saudi officials who greeted him at the Istanbul consulate, is likely to invite derision.

Leaks from the Turkish authorities and independent reporting has shown that the kingdom’s most senior forensics expert was among a 15-man team sent from Riyadh on 2 October ahead of Khashoggi’s scheduled visit to the consulate.

They are reported to have brought a bone saw with them and the forensics expert, Salah Muhammed al-Tubaigy, is said to have been recorded telling others to listen to music on headphones while he dismembered the body.

It will also be hard to convince global opinion that the crown prince, widely known by his initials, MBS, did not give the order. Several of the 15-strong squad sent to Istanbul were from his personal security staff.

The credibility of the Saudi court is already stretched to breaking point. From the day of Khashoggi’s disappearance until the early hours of Saturday morning, the official line from Riyadh was that the exiled writer, a US resident who wrote for the Washington Post, left the consulate before disappearing.

The question for western powers is whether this explanation is seen as a necessary and sufficient grubby deal to bring a disastrous episode to a close, or whether punitive sanctions will be required.

The Trump administration has stressed it cannot afford to lose Saudi Arabia as a strategic partner. But it faces a sceptical Congress which may demand more convincing explanations of what happened to Khashoggi on 2 October.

Samantha Power, former US ambassador to the United Nations, said in a tweet: “They don’t get it. Shifting from bald-face lies (‘Khashoggi left consulate’) to faux condemnation (of a ‘rogue operation’) to claiming the wolf will credibly investigate what he did to the hen … will convince nobody.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-dead-saudi-arabian-state-television-confirms
 
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Saudis confirm death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi

From CNN’s Sarah Sirgany in Atlanta and Clarissa Ward

Saudi Arabia has confirmed the death of missing Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in an announcement on Saudi State TV.

In the news bulletin on State TV, it was announced the Saudis have set up a commission that will investigate Khashoggi’s death and will have one month to release a report. The commission will consist of national security officials, the foreign ministry and the interior ministry.

Discussions between Khashoggi and those who met him during his arrival at the consulate in Istanbul led to a quarrel and physical altercation, which led to his death, according to State TV.

The Saudi Press Agency said 18 Saudi nationals have now been detained in the investigation.

A royal order has also been issued to release Major General Ahmed al-Assiri from his duty as the deputy of the intelligence services, according to the announcement.

https://edition.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/saudi-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-missing/index.html

From the article:

'In the news bulletin on State TV, it was announced the Saudis have set up a commission that will investigate Khashoggi’s death and will have one month to release a report. The commission will consist of national security officials, the foreign ministry and the interior ministry.'

Really?
 
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Totally speechless , lucky Turkish intelligence was monitoring them otherwise we would never have got to the truth. This incident is extremely sad and disturbing and a blight on consulates around the world that they can be used as an abattoir and get away with murder. Freedom of speech died with Khashoggi and the right of diplomatic immunity.
 
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Totally speechless , lucky Turkish intelligence was monitoring them otherwise we would never have got to the truth. This incident is extremely sad and disturbing and a blight on consulates around the world that they can be used as an abattoir and get away with murder. Freedom of speech died with Khashoggi and the right of diplomatic immunity.

That is right.
The Turks have done a fine job.
But maybe MBS's plan was meant to fail.
Because he is not as smart as it seems.
MBS = Must Be Stupid.
 
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Where are all those who claimed this was all propaganda? @The SC what do you say now?


On topic: surprise surprise, who would have thought? I was asking myself when they are gonna notice that they are not fooling anyone except their boot lickers.

A big kudos to the Turkish security aparatus here, we see that the huge budget finally pays off.
 
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They said a fight broke out in the consulate. And now they put MBS in charge of intel restructuring.
 
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Where are all those who claimed this was all propaganda? @The SC what do you say now?


On topic: surprise surprise, who would have thought? I was asking myself when they are gonna notice that they are not fooling anyone except their boothlickers.

Lol, there were people dumb enough here to think rest of the world is lying and the Saudis are telling the truth?
 
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