Three weeks after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and never emerged, Turkish officials are reporting that journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s body and personal effects have finally been found. The circumstances once again support the idea that a Saudi kill-team that arrived at the consulate at the same time indeed killed and attempted to dispose of him.
Though Turkish investigators are so far not confirming or denying it, top Turkish official Dogu Perincek is reporting that Khashoggi’s body was found cut-up and disfigured, and dumped in the well in the garden belonging to the Saudi consul general.
This all supports the audio recording of Khashoggi’s murder, in which the then-consule general objected to the kill-team killing and cutting up Khashoggi in the consulate, saying he’d “get in trouble.” He’s been fired, and recalled to Saudi Arabia for an investigation.
Turkish state media are getting confirmation from state media, however, that Khashoggi’s possessions have been found in a car belonging to the Saudi consulate, which was discovered in an underground garage.
Inside the car, there were three suitcases found. These contained Khashoggi’s laptop computer, and clothing. This supports the story that Khashoggi, after being killed, was stripped of his clothing, which was put on a body double who left the consulate to try to cover up the fact that Khashoggi, himself, never did.
Last consulate on the left.
If we had such detailed descriptions of daily US assassinations in various countries, think what a better world it would be. And the whole thing seems to be driven by the Washington Post, an establishment warmonger dishrag Hillary supporter.
Better yet, Washingtom Posr, the owner who proudly owns many other things besides Amazon. Which includes a giid chunk of CIA contract operations, and virtual IT operations that store and manage government data. A lits of it, because it is convenient and easy for government bureaucrats to let somebody else manage IT, a burdensome and costly nuisance to government. That somebody else, the magical “private sector”, has all the access to all the data private interests can desire. It is late, much too late to lament now over the triumph of corporate run statee.
Jason, This report does not ring true to me. The sources are New Delhi TV and the NY Post, neither of which have inside sources in the Turkish investigation and the NY Post in particular is known for unreliable reporting.
The New Delhi report claims that Khashoggi’s laptop computer was found in an underground garage. But the photos of Khashoggi entering the consulate do not show him carrying a laptop or anything else.
Also, it would be beyond stupid for the hit squad to dump his body in a well at the consul’s villa. And if the body was found, I would expect the Turkish investigators would leak the disclosure to their normal sources in Turkey and at Reuters.
So I am skeptical of this report.
Hurriyet attributed the report to Sky News.
Edrogan made a big point of saying the body hasn’t been found. If the body has been found it would be very big news that would probably be leaked to the Turkish press and Reuters, who have been getting the earlier leaks first. Does Sky News have inside sources in the Turkish investigation?
They have enough money to buy one I would presume……
I have no idea. I was just passing along the attribution that Turkey’s largest English-language daily offered for the story (which it seemed to discount).
Al Jazeera is not reporting the investigators found the body or the laptop. They have been very reliable and on top of this story and would have reported it if it was credible. I think this is false news.
I suspect you are right. Presumably Hurriyet would have cited confirmation from the regime, rather than just reporting that Sky News reported the claim, if there was any “there” there.
Oh goody, a UK outlet. We can trust them.
For the same reason I do not believe the report. It is almost comical to assume that all thise people who left Turkey with diolomatjc immunity would be stupid to leave so many things behind, that could have easily been sent by diplomatic pouch. It makes no sense.
There is something very strange going on. The experts in abductions are the Mossad. One of their methods is the honey trap routine. As the laptop obviously would have been in Khashoggi’s car then I’d like to hear about the background of Khashoggi’s lady friend.
If true, this is inconvenient for Turkey. Erdogan is gaining a lot by dragging this out. He doesn’t want it to end. We can expect ambiguity about the find of the body, for as long as he can drag it out.
On a related issue, it is not only our government which will continue to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia, the French, Canadian, and Spanish governments will too. The government of the Netherlands has completely stopped weapons sales/deliveries to Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Journalist’s Remains Found in Garden
Actually Khashoggi was not a journalist. Khashoggi was a loyal member of the Saudi propaganda apparatus. There is no journalism allowed in the kingdom: there have been courageous Saudi women and men who attempted to crack the wall of rigid political conformity and were persecuted and punished for their views. Khashoggi was not among them. here
So the “Magnitskey Act” sanctions against KSA are unwarranted, because Khashoggi was not an “individual in any foreign country seeking to expose illegal activity carried out by government officials, or to obtain, exercise, or promote human rights and freedoms.”