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    Missing Saudi journalist's fiancee asks for Trump's help (OP)


    https://www.yahoo.com/news/missing-s...035124244.html


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    Hatice Cengiz says her missing fiance Jamal Khashoggi did not doubt his safety inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul (AFP Photo/OZAN KOSE)
    Washington (AFP) - The fiancee of missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday asked President Donald Trump to help uncover what happened to the Riyadh critic who she said had "been fighting for his principles".


    Hatice Cengiz made the appeal in an opinion piece for The Washington Post newspaper, where Khashoggi was a columnist and an outspoken critic of some of Riyadh's policies.


    A veteran journalist, Khashoggi disappeared on October 2 after entering Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul to arrange paperwork for his wedding to Cengiz, a Turk.


    Government sources in Turkey said police believe the 59-year-old was killed inside the consulate, claims which Riyadh dismissed as "baseless".


    Cengiz wrote that she was "confident in the abilities of Turkish government officials."


    "At this time, I implore President Trump and first lady Melania Trump to help shed light on Jamal's disappearance," she said.


    "I also urge Saudi Arabia, especially King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to show the same level of sensitivity and release CCTV footage from the consulate," Cengiz wrote.


    Trump on Monday expressed concern about Khashoggi's case and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called for a thorough investigation.


    Turkish police were also looking into the possibility that Khashoggi was kidnapped, local media reported.


    Riyadh has said Khashoggi left the consulate after his visit.


    Although Khashoggi knew that his opinions had angered certain people, he entered the consulate "without doubting he would be safe there," his fiancee wrote, but after three hours of waiting "fear and concern" overcame her.


    Khashoggi had fled his homeland in September last year and had been living in self-imposed exile in the United States, where he had applied for US citizenship, Cengiz said.


    A former Saudi government advisor, Khashoggi has been openly critical of Prince Mohammed, accusing him of introducing a new era of "fear, intimidation, arrests and public shaming."


    Cengiz wrote she remains confident that the "great man" is still alive, "although my hope slowly fades away each passing day."

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    Looks like 'MBS' new best friend 'Bibi' is going to come to his rescue.

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Jamal Khashoggi's murder must not risk Saudi Arabia's "stability"

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    Salaam

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    Some Saudis want to boycott Amazon in response to The Washington Post's coverage of Jamal Khashoggi's murder

    • Saudis are calling for a boycott of Amazon and its regional subsidiary, Souq.com, in response to The Washington Post's coverage of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
    • Thousands of people on Twitter in Saudi Arabia echoed those calls for a boycott in order to jab Jeff Bezos, who owns The Post and is the founder and biggest shareholder in Amazon.
    • People were apparently angry about The Post's ongoing coverage of Khashoggi's murder, viewing it as an attack on the kingdom.


    Saudis are calling for a boycott of Amazon and its regional subsidiary, Souq.com, in response to The Washington Post's coverage of journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.

    Thousands of people on Twitter in Saudi Arabia echoed those calls for a boycott in order to jab Jeff Bezos, who owns The Post and is the founder and biggest shareholder in Amazon.

    Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, last month, was a columnist at The Post.

    "Boycott Amazon" was the top trending hashtag on Twitter in Saudi Arabia for several hours Sunday, according to Bloomberg.

    Users appeared to be angry at The Post's ongoing coverage of Khashoggi's murder, viewing it as an attack on their kingdom's policies.

    Many were notably upset by a recent op-ed from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who blasted Saudi officials for trying to "cover up" Khashoggi's killing.

    The Post's editorial board has repeatedly called for transparency in the investigations surrounding Khashoggi's October death and has published gruesome details about the murder citing information from Turkish officials.

    While Saudi Arabia’s description of what happened to the 59-year-old has shifted several times, Turkish authorities said he was strangled shortly after he entered the consulate and his body was dismembered. The Post previously reported that Turkish officials were pursuing a theory that Khashoggi’s remains were dissolved in acid in the consulate or at the nearby consul general’s home.

    His remains have not been recovered.

    Saudi users shared videos and photos of themselves deleting the Amazon and Souq applications from their phones.

    Some also posted about canceling their Amazon or Souq accounts. Influential users referred to Western media coverage of Khashoggi's case as a "media war," Bloomberg reported, while other tweets appeared to be automated or copied and pasted.

    Some users mocked the boycott campaign against Amazon, which recently became the second US company to achieve a $1 trillion market cap.

    The Post cited an anonymous Turkish official as saying authorities found biological evidence in the consulate garden that supported the theory.

    “Khashoggi’s body was not in need of burying,” the official said, according to The Post.

    Earlier theories floated that Khashoggi’s body was wrapped up in some kind of fabric and given to a local Turkish coconspirator.

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    Re: Missing Saudi journalist's fiancee asks for Trump's help

    No body cares about this guy how about the kids in Iraq, Syria and Burma killed daily, I'd like to see this much attention for the Iraqi boy run over by a tank by Hezbollah thugs on video for their entertainment then I would ever care to hear about this guy. I want to know which Rafidi Mobilization Gangsters were responsible and I would like for Iran to be questioned on an international scale for it as well as the fake government of Iraq and I would like for BBC, Al-Jazeera and the rest of the media circus to give attention to him, until then no one needs to hear about this man he is unimportant and insignificant.

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    Salaam

    Looks like 'MBS' new best friend 'Bibi' is going to come to his rescue.

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    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Jamal Khashoggi's murder must not risk Saudi Arabia's "stability"

    Better than Khamenei the scum of the Majoos or Bashar the dog of the Rafida
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...-iraqi-9261323
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    Re: Missing Saudi journalist's fiancee asks for Trump's help

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    Oh dear seems the Oligarchs are displeased with MBS

    Crown Prince’s wings clipped as Khashoggi death rattles Riyadh

    Fallout from killing has weakened Prince Mohammed and given second wind to old guard of elders

    Six weeks after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi agents, the decision-making process in Riyadh is slowly starting to change. Fallout from the assassination in Istanbul has wounded Mohammed bin Salman, the heir to the throne, and given a second wind to an old guard of elders, whose views are once more being heard.

    Publicly, the kingdom’s leaders appear chastened and contrite in the wake of Khashoggi’s gruesome killing inside the Saudi consulate. In private though, senior members of the House of Saud, including the crown prince, are partly blaming Turkey for the global revulsion, which they say could have been contained if Ankara had played by “regional rules”.

    Central to the resentment, according to sources close to the royal court in Riyadh, is a view that the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, betrayed the kingdom by disclosing details of the investigation and refusing all overtures from Saudi envoys, including an offer to pay “significant” compensation.

    “They say they were betrayed by the Turks,” a regional source said. “That’s where they are in their most private thoughts.”

    The extraordinary ramifications of Khashoggi’s death continue to reverberate through the halls of power in Riyadh, where some decisions are now being made away from the ubiquitous crown prince, who Turkey alleges directly ordered the assassination, and has since tried to deflect blame to fall guys, including his most prominent domestic aide. Ankara has been aiming to isolate Prince Mohammed through weeks of pointed rhetoric that has appealed to the Saudi king to rein in his son, and restore more conventional ways of doing business.

    The return to Riyadh earlier this month of Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the sole surviving full brother of King Salman, has been widely interpreted as a first step in the restoration of an old order, in which decision making was made after extensive consultation among elders. Another senior figure, Khalid al-Faisal, led the Saudi delegation to meet Erdoğan in October, and the king himself - who has taken more of a chairman role since appointing Prince Mohammed as his heir - has been more visible and vocal in meetings, a second senior source says.

    “MbS [the common acronym for the crown prince] has had his wings clipped,” the source said. “There’s no doubt about it. He doesn’t have the same swagger, and he’s just as scared of a mis-step as the next guy. That’s a big change.”

    In the days after Khashoggi was killed, as the official Saudi reaction shifted from outright denial that it had played a role, to a begrudging admission that Khashoggi had been killed in a fight, Prince Mohammed struggled to comprehend the scale of the reaction – and even the reason for it.

    “He was blaming the Americans for betraying him initially,” said the regional source. “He’d seen Abu Ghraib, renditions, death penalties, and he felt comforted by Trump. He could not understand why this was happening to him.”

    Since then, western leaders’ once enthusiastic embrace of Prince Mohammed has been replaced by wariness and a view that some of the regional feuds launched in his name need to be brought to an end.

    “We saw [the US secretary of state Mike] Pompeo talk strongly about Yemen,” said a British diplomat, who like other senior officials contacted by the Guardian, declined to be named. “That was not a ‘we’re working with you’ tone. It was something very different.”

    Pompeo on 31 October had demanded a 30-day ceasefire in Yemen, where Saudi-led forces had been fighting Houthi rebel groups, who it alleges are backed by Iran. The US defence secretary, James Mattis, added his voice on Friday, and urged the start of peace talks between Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Iran.

    They were the strongest remarks yet by a US official in the two-year war on the kingdom’s eastern border. Also on Friday, the US said it would no longer refuel Saudi fighter jets conducting missions in Yemen – a further sign that Riyadh’s most important ally, and supplier of most of its weapons, is losing faith in the campaign.

    The Saudi-led blockade of Qatar is also facing renewed scrutiny, with US officials believed to be newly energised in finding ways to force a climbdown which would not further diminish Prince Mohammed in the eyes of his critics or domestic stakeholders.

    There is little appetite in London or Washington for Prince Mohammed to be removed, and Ankara – which is strongly opposed to the crown prince, but not at odds with King Salman – is being lobbied heavily by Riyadh’s allies to accept the fact that Prince Mohammed will not be ousted.

    A Whitehall assessment is that a risk exists of a slide back towards the religious establishment, revocation of social change and a plunge in the Saudi economy if a palace coup was launched. “It’s in everyone’s interests to find a way forward that world leaders can just about live with,” an official with responsibility for Saudi security policy said.

    Erdoğan is understood to remain unconvinced about Prince Mohammed remaining in power. On Saturday, the Turkish leader claimed Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Britain, France and Germany had been given audio tapes that recorded the killing of Khashoggi by a team of 15 security officials who had flown to Istanbul and waited for him to enter the Saudi consulate to sign marriage papers on 2 October. Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, confirmed Canadian spies had listened to audio depicting the last moments of Khashoggi’s life. Germany later followed suit, in what appeared to be a co-ordinated effort to maintain pressure on Riyadh.

    What was recorded on the tapes remains the centrepiece of the case against the kingdom, and could help answer whether the crown prince himself was incriminated in the conversations. His chief domestic aide, Saad al-Qahtani, was sacked two weeks after the assassination, as was a deputy intelligence chief. Mohammed bin Salman insists he played no role and his defenders have insisted the hitmen over-reached in a bid to please their masters. Intelligence officials in the region and in Europe remain incredulous at the claim.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/12/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-mohammed-wings-clipped-as-khashoggi-death-rattles-riyadh
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    Re: Missing Saudi journalist's fiancee asks for Trump's help

    Salaam

    Another update

    Letter from Riyadh

    We all grieve for our brother Jamal Khashoggi, may be peace be upon him. Indeed, may peace be upon all the pieces of him, wherever they may be interred.


    Our own exhaustive inquiry into this affair has concluded that our government may have accidentally killed Jamal on purpose. According to our evolving PR strategy, he appears to have died while resisting torture and extra judicial beheading, itself a serious offence punishable by torture and beheading.

    Alas, we cannot help our Turkish cousins locate the remains of our dear brother. It appears they may well have been mislaid in all the excitement. Infidels have accused our loveable crown prince, Muhammed bin Salman, aka ‘MBS’, may Allah preserve His Royal Highness. But the real culpability seems to lie elsewhere.

    You westerners have overlooked the role of our dear sheikh, His Excellency Saud al-Qahtani, who has been accused of overseeing the whole of this most unfortunate incident. Although not physically present in Istanbul, al-Qahtani was beamed into the interrogation room via skype to hurl insults at Khashoggi. Indeed, it is al-Qahtani who appears on the Turks secret recordings inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul – clearly taking a keen interest in Jamal’s ‘cross examination’. At one point he was heard to shout: ‘Bring me the head of the dog’.

    Al Qahtani may appear to be a pudgy, unprepossessing sheikh of some 40 years with spaghetti western designer stubble, but he was widely considered to be the dark power behind MBS, Saudi officials familiar with his ‘methods’ have quietly tried to brief western journalists and diplomats about this shadowy figure – unkindly dubbed ‘the Goebbels of the sands’. The Sheikh has been at the heart of most of our recent scandals and fiascos.

    A law graduate, His Excellency first came to notice in 2003 as a legal adviser to our departed brother, His Majesty King Abdullah bin Abulaziz. But his career really took of in 2012 when he became court adviser and soon came to the attention of MBS. Nominally al-Qathani ran the crown princes social media sites, quickly gathering some 1.3 million personal followers and legions of bots which he has mercilessly deployed against the Qatari dogs. Al-Qahtani rapidly became invaluable in a whole series of initiatives carried out at the behest of MBS.

    These included the so-called ‘Great Sheikh-down’ of late 2017 when more than 200 of our most corrupt prices and sheikhs were incarcerated in the Ritz Carlton here in Riyadh. Al-Qathani led several of the ‘interrogations’ himself and played a key role in relieving many of the inmates of their ill-gotten gains. He also helped out in the kidnapping of the Lebanese prime minster Saad Hariri, who we felt had failed to stand up to the Shite infidels of Iran and Hezbollah.

    Al-Qahtani oversaw the interrogation and thrashing of Hariri, whom he then forced to sign a letter of resignation. The intercession of French President Emmanuel Macron made it clear there had been a regrettable misunderstanding and our brother Harari was soon released to continue being prime minster.

    Following the latest, ahem, regrettable incident in Istanbul, it seems our rulers have decided that al-Qahtani has delighted them long enough. King Salman has ‘let go’ him and four other officials over the Khashoggi affair, leaving our dear and greatly respected crown prince MBS looking as serene as ever.

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    Re: Missing Saudi journalist's fiancee asks for Trump's help

    Salaam

    Another update.

    What Turkey Stands to Gain From the Khashoggi Investigation

    President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan might not be able to permanently sideline the Saudi crown prince, but he could extract other concessions that bolster his own position.


    Saudi authorities said Thursday that they charged 11 people in connection with the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Five of the 11 were charged with murder. Turkey’s response? It’s not enough.

    The journalist’s killing has cast Turkey, which under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has stifled dissent, in an unusual role—that of a defender of human rights and a free press. So what does Turkey hope to get out of this? Two main things: the undermining of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and an end to the Riyadh-led blockade of Qatar.

    Since Khashoggi disappeared last month, Erdoğan has put on a masterful performance: He has ensured that the specter of culpability for the killing looms over MbS; maintained deference toward Saudi King Salman, MbS’s father; and reset relations with President Donald Trump through the release of a jailed American pastor.

    The Saudi prosecutors’ narrative could diminish some of Turkey’s pressure on the crown prince. According to the version of events they laid out on Thursday, a 15-man team sent to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul had orders to return Khashoggi to the kingdom. But he resisted, resulting in his murder and dismemberment, the prosecutors said. This action, they said, was not authorized by top Saudi officials. The version of events contradicts almost every previous account offered by the Saudis, who had said the death was accidental. But it is also at odds with the Turkish narrative that Khashoggi’s killing on October 2 was premeditated.

    “We find all those steps positive, but insufficient,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said Thursday following the Saudi announcement. That pronouncement is hardly shocking, but there is irony in Turkey assuming the role of champion of press freedom and human rights. This week, a Turkish court dismissed the case against Ayla Albayrak, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who had previously been accused of promoting terrorist propaganda. More than two-dozen journalists have been jailed by the Turkish government.*

    Under Erdoğan, the government has crushed dissent and dismantled the free press. Yet on the Khashoggi case, it has emerged as the clearest voice for justice—clearer even than the West, which traditionally has championed such causes but in this case is standing by its ally MbS. The Trump administration announced economic sanctions on 17 Saudis with alleged links to the killing shortly after the Saudi announcement. A French foreign-ministry spokeswoman called the Saudi announcement a step “in the right direction.”

    Following Thursday’s charges, Erdoğan’s primary goal of sidelining MbS appears to have stalled. “I think he overplayed his hand aiming to undermine MbS,” Soner Cagaptay, who studies Turkey at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said.

    Still, the Turkish president has cards left to play: Saudi Arabia’s Western allies are so keen on the Khashoggi story going away that they are likely to offer Ankara incentives to stop pointing the finger at MbS and accept the results of the Saudi inquiry. (Turkey itself has called for an international investigation into the incident.)

    Ankara can also extract major political concessions from the Arabs. Erdoğan, who has portrayed himself as a leader of the Muslim world, has another goal: that of Islamic unity. “If he gets this as part of the bargain with MbS, he might let him walk away,” Cagaptay, the author of The New Sultan: Erdoğan and the Crisis of Modern Turkey, said.

    One way to achieve that unity is through an end to the Saudi-led Arab blockade of Qatar. Turkey, along with Iran, has supported Doha during the more-than-year-long embargo imposed on Qatar by its fellow Arab states for, among other things, its alleged support of Islamist groups. Many of those groups are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which most Arab states regard as a terrorist organization, but which Erdoğan openly supports because of its espousal of political Islam. Qatar, which remains one of Turkey’s major financial benefactors, says it supports all groups in the region because it takes into account political realities on the ground.

    Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu’s remarks that the Saudi prosecutor’s actions were “positive, but insufficient” leaves the door open for a compromise—one that ends the blockade of Qatar and includes a tacit understanding from Arab states that Ankara will continue to support groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies. Any such agreement would almost certainly boost Erdoğan’s standing in the region. For a country that is struggling economically and, until recently, was feuding with all its major allies, this is no small thing.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/internat...salman/575962/

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    Press TV interviews E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, on the implications of the U.S. indication it will hold accountable those involved in the Khashoggi murder.

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    Re: Missing Saudi journalist's fiancee asks for Trump's help

    The CIA came out this morning and said they believed the Crown Prince ordered Khashoggi's killing

    That is VERY unusual for them to do --directly implicating a US ally before statements from the president.

    This is going to get very ugly ....
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    Re: Missing Saudi journalist's fiancee asks for Trump's help

    Salaam

    As horrible as this murder is (and it is) usually an incident like this would be hushed up. (Erdogan himself locks up dissidents and look whats happening to Julian Assange). Also note the lack of concern for the lives lost in Yemen, Syria and Ive heard another Saudi journalist died that didn't make the headlines.

    Usually Western powers quick to defend or at least deflect criticism directed towards the Sauds.

    Hmmmm theres something else going on.

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    Interesting speculation.







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    Re: Missing Saudi journalist's fiancee asks for Trump's help

    Salaam

    Another update.

    Postcard from Riyadh

    What has happended to our dear sheikh Saud al-Qahtani? The suspected mastermind behind the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi has himself disappeared.


    Al-Qahtani aka the ‘Lord of the Flies’, was the indispensable right hand guru-psychopath to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, MBS. He was the most feared man in our kingdom until he screwed up the Khashoggi business in our consulate in Istanbul a year ago. The Turks, alas, were bugging the premises and recorded the whole bloody affair, the sheikh apparently directed operations via Skype. ‘Bring me the head of the dog!’ he is heard to say.

    MBS had made al-Qahtani overlord of al Saudi media, including those sections that dare to dissent. He was himself a keen tweeter with more than 1.3m followers – or was until his account was mysteriously suspended by Twitter on 20 September. In any event, he hasn’t tweeted a word since last October, around the time MBS, under pressure from Washington, was forced to sack him and arrest other members of the hit squad for what the UN calls a ‘state killing.’

    MBS and al-Qahtani suspected Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was an agent for the Muslim Brotherhood, our enemy, and their followers in Turkey and Qatar. Such treason was punishable by extra judicial torture and beheading. The CIA meanwhile, has identified him as head of our ‘Saudi Rapid Intervention Group’ which he set up to counter dissent. The Khashoggi hit was one of a dozen ‘rapid interventions’ but the first to backfire so badly.

    In January, al-Qahtani was not among the 11 defendants who shuffled into court in Riyadh for the show trial MBS was forced to convene. In April, the US banned the sheikh and his 15 accomplices from the US over the death of Khashoggi, whose remains have never been found.

    So where is al-Qahtani? In late August the Oslo based Palestinian exile and critic of Saudi Arabia Iya al-Baghdadi tweeted that he had ‘received news that Saud al-Qahtani had been poisoned to death by MBS’. Baghdadi claimed his source is ‘well placed’ and ‘consistently reliable’. Our officials deny foul play and insist al-Qahtani is ‘under investigation’ – but provide no proof.

    There is no doubt his permanent disappearance would help attempts here to protect MBS, who was in the spotlight the moment al-Qahtani’s involvement was identified last year. Both the US and UN demanded al-Qahtanis prosecution, but MBS would never risk him taking the stand. He knows too much about Khashoggi and other state scandals.

    Recent attacks on our oil fields by Iran and Yemen failed to detract from publicity surrounding the anniversary of the killing and interest in the Khashoggi case persists. MBS says he takes responsibility for the killing that happened ‘under my watch’ but insists he had nothing to do with it. How he must long for the return of his dear friend to clear his noble name form unwarranted suspicion.

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    Another update.

    Saudi Arabia sentences five to death for murder of Jamal Khashoggi

    Former royal adviser Saud al-Qahtani was investigated but released without being charged


    Five men have been sentenced to death and another three face 24 years in prison for their roles in the gruesome murder of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year, the Saudi public prosecutor’s office has said.
    All 11 people on trial were found guilty of the killing, which triggered the kingdom’s biggest diplomatic crisis since the 9/11 attacks as world leaders and business executives sought to distance themselves from Riyadh.

    However, Saudi state television also reported the Saudi attorney general’s investigation showed that the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s former top adviser, Saud al-Qahtani, had no proven involvement in the killing, after being investigated and released without charge.

    Al-Qahtani has been sanctioned by the US for his alleged role in the operation.

    The court also ruled that the Saudi consul-general in Istanbul at the time, Mohammed al-Otaibi, was not guilty. He was released from prison after the verdicts were announced.

    The murder of Khashoggi sullied the reputation of the newly appointed crown prince, whom the CIA concluded directly ordered Khashoggi’s assassination, according to a report in the Washington Post.

    Prince Mohammed has attempted to portray himself as a liberal reformer of the conservative country. The Saudi government denies the prince had knowledge of what it says was a rogue operation. The prince himself told US television in September that he took “full responsibility as a leader in Saudi Arabia”.

    After holding nine sessions, the trial concluded that there was no previous intent by those found guilty to murder.

    All 11 defendants may appeal against the verdicts, the deputy public prosecutor, Shalaan bin Rajih Shalaal, said.

    No other details were immediately given about the rulings in the highly secretive trial, which began in January. The identities of the men are unknown and UN investigators have been repeatedly barred from hearings, although a handful of diplomats, including from Turkey, as well as members of Khashoggi’s family, were allowed to attend the sessions.

    Ankara has repeatedly sought the extradition for trial in Turkey of 18 Saudi suspects, including a 15 man hit team it says flew into Istanbul hours before the killing to dispatch the journalist.

    Agnès Callamard, a UN special rapporteur who authored an inquiry into Khashoggi’s death, has previously said the search for justice must not be left to the Saudi judicial system, which is “so vulnerable to political interference”.
    Dozens of high-profile critics of Prince Mohammed, including women’s rights campaigners, are in prison facing trial for treason.

    Khashoggi, a US-based columnist for the Washington Post critical of the Saudi government, was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October last year on a visit to pick up paperwork for his forthcoming marriage.
    The 59-year-old’s body has still not been found and is thought by Turkish investigators to have been dissolved in acid.

    Saudi Arabia initially denied its officials were responsible for Khashoggi’s disappearance, but as Turkish authorities continued to leak evidence of high-level involvement, the kingdom eventually admitted its agents carried out the killing, offering a series of contradictory explanations.

    Donald Trump, whom has made Saudi Arabia the keystone of his Middle East policy, condemned the killing but has staunchly defended his ally, Prince Mohammed. His administration has sanctioned 17 Saudis suspected of being involved in Khashoggi’s death, though not the crown prince.

    Trump has steadfastly resisted calls by congress and members of his own party for a tougher response, defending maintaining good relations with the kingdom because of its importance as a major trade and diplomatic ally.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...amal-khashoggi
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