The passenger manifest, obtained by the pro-government Daily Sabah newspaper, also lists a senior intelligence officer and two Saudi air force officers. The alleged involvement of a forensics expert adds weight to the suspicions.
Suggestions that Khashoggi was killed and his body then mutilated have gained wide circulation in the week since he vanished, and Turkish officials continue to insist he met a brutal fate when he stepped through the doors of the diplomatic mission. “It was like Pulp Fiction,” a Turkish official told the New York Times. But, unlike the roads outside the diplomatic mission, they have no camera coverage of the consul general’s residence or the garage beneath it, and say the cars and their occupants remained out of sight for several hours before continuing to Atatürk airport.ĭetails of the Saudi citizens who travelled to Istanbul were released amid a claim that they had brought with them a bone saw to dismember Khashoggi. Turkish officials remain convinced that Khashoggi was killed by the alleged hit squad inside the consulate building – a view partly formed by security footage, much of which has not been released. In the letter, the senators said they had triggered a provision of the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act requiring the president to determine whether a foreign person is responsible for a gross human rights violation. Twenty-two US senators signed a letter to Trump on Wednesday triggering an investigation and determination of whether human rights sanctions should be imposed over Khashoggi’s disappearance. Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, John Bolton, the national security adviser, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, all spoke to the Saudi Arabian crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, to request further information about the missing journalist, according to the White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders. The US president also said that he had invited Khashoggi’s fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, to the White House. “I want to see what happens and we’re working very closely with Turkey and I think we’ll get to the bottom of it.” “It’s a very serious situation for us and for this White House,” he told reporters on Wednesday. Investigators are seeking to determine what information the watch had transmitted.ĭonald Trump said that the US was “demanding” answers from the Saudi government and working closely with Turkey to find out what happened to the missing dissident.
“We have determined that it was on him when he walked into the consulate,” a security official told Reuters. Investigators also disclosed on Wednesday that they were focusing on an Apple watch that Khashoggi was wearing that was connected to an iPhone he had left with his fiancee outside the consulate. Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. He was also a former editor of the Saudi newspaper al-Watan and had worked with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a grandson of the first Saudi king. Khashoggi previously had close links with the Saudi royal family, including having served as a media aide to Prince Turki al-Faisal, when the latter was director general of the Saudi intelligence agency. His message struck a nuanced tone in the US, where he tried to acknowledge the reforms undertaken by Bin Salman while also highlighting the flaws. He wrote columns for the Washington Post and the Guardian. He moved to the US in June 2017, where he continued to comment on his country both in print and on television.
While living in Saudi Arabia, Khashoggi was told to stop writing or posting on Twitter, where he had more than 1.6 million followers. He was an outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia who dared to defy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Jamal Khashoggi was one of the Arab world’s most prominent journalists and commentators.
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