Turkish authorities are supplying more details into the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul earlier this month by a Sawdi hit team likely sent by their Crown Prince Mohammed "Bone Saw" bin Salman. According to Istanbul's chief prosecutor, Khashoggi was strangled upon entering the Sawdi consulate and dismembered with a bone saw. The Sawdi regime has offered multiple false explanations about Khashoggi's death, who was a regime critic, initially saying that he left the consulate despite video evidence that disproved it.
While Crown Prince Bone Saw has promised to cooperate with the Turks' investigation, that appears to be a lie. As his regime continues to stall and dissemble, the Turks are releasing evidence in pieces:
"On Wednesday, unidentified [Turkish] state sources again began dominating news coverage of the murder, saying a Saudi prosecutor who had flown to Turkey to work on the case was unhelpful. The Istanbul prosecutor’s office disclosed the new details in a statement issued soon after the Saudi official, Saud al-Mojeb, flew home after a three-day visit.....[Saudi prosecutor] Al-Mojeb wouldn’t answer some of the key questions Turkey asked, the statement said, including: Where is Khashoggi’s body? Who was the alleged local collaborator that the Saudis say took part? What do the Saudis know about who planned the murder? (our emphasis)The recovery of Khashoggi's body could answer some questions that the Sawdis don't want answered, but eventually the truth will come out. It won't result in holding Crown Prince Bone Saw accountable, of course, given the tacit protection he has from corrupt huckster Jared "Mr. Ivanka Trump" Kushner, whom Bone Saw once said was in his pocket, the Trump regime overall, and complicit right-wing Likudniks and Arab beneficiaries of Bone Saw's bribes.
(photo: Crown Prince Bone Saw still stonewalling. Charles Platiau/Reuters)
