CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi assassination: Washington Post
Tehran (Basirat) :The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the gruesome murder of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Arab kingdom’s consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul last month, a report says.
In a report published on Friday, The Washington Post, citing unnamed people
familiar with the matter, said that the American spy agency had reached the
conclusion that the Saudi de facto ruler had ordered the assassination,
contradicting Riyadh’s claims that he was not involved in the killing.
According to the American daily newspaper, to which Khashoggi was a contributing
columnist, in conducting its assessment, the CIA examined multiple sources of
intelligence, including a phone call that the prince’s brother Khalid bin Salman,
the Saudi ambassador to the US, had with the ill-fated journo, telling him to go
to the Saudi diplomatic mission and giving him assurances that it would be safe
to do so.
But shortly after the report was published, the Saudi ambassador to the US
denied in a tweet he had spoken to the slain journalist by phone or had
suggested he go to Turkey.
Khashoggi, 59, an outspoken critic of bin Salman, disappeared after he entered
the Saudi diplomatic mission in the Turkish city on October 2 to complete some
paperwork for his forthcoming marriage.
However, as diplomatic pressure grew tremendously on Riyadh to give an account
on the mysterious fate of its national, in an unexpected statement last month,
Saudi Attorney General Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb admitted that Khashoggi had been
killed in a "premeditated” attack in the consulate.
Source:PRESSTV
