https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/w...dismember.html
Audio Contains Gruesome Details of Khashoggi Killing and live Dismemberbment
ISTANBUL — His killers were waiting when Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago. They severed his fingers during an interrogation and later beheaded and dismembered him, according to details from audio recordings published in the Turkish news media on Wednesday.
It was all over within a few minutes, the recordings suggested.
A senior Turkish official confirmed the details that were published in the pro-government daily newspaper Yeni Safak.
The leaking of such details, on the same day Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was visiting Turkey, reflected an escalation of pressure by the Turkish government on Saudi Arabia and the United States for answers on the fate of Mr. Khashoggi, a prominent dissident journalist who wrote for The Washington Post.
Fifteen days after he entered the consulate in Istanbul and was never seen coming out, the Saudis have yet to give an explanation.
Top Saudi officials have repeatedly denied any involvement in Mr. Khashoggi’s disappearance — denials that they repeated to Mr. Pompeo when he visited Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
A team of 15 Saudi agents, some with ties to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was waiting for Mr. Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate the moment he arrived, at about 1:15 p.m. on Oct. 2.
After he was shown into the office of the Saudi consul, Mohammad al-Otaibi, the agents seized Mr. Khashoggi almost immediately and began to beat and torture him, eventually cutting off his fingers, the senior Turkish official said.
Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist, had visited the Istanbul consulate to obtain documents that would allow him to marry his fiancée.
“Do this outside. You will put me in trouble,” Mr. al-Otaibi, the consul, told them, according to the Turkish official and the report in Yeni Safak, both citing audio recordings said to have been obtained by Turkish intelligence.
“If you want to live when you come back to Arabia, shut up,” one of the agents replied, according to both the official and the newspaper.
“Horrendous tortures were committed on Khashoggi, who came to the consulate for documents,” the Yeni Safak account said.
As they cut off Mr. Khashoggi’s head and dismembered his body, a doctor of forensics who had been brought along for the dissection and disposal had some advice for the others, according to the senior Turkish official.
Listen to music, he told them, as he put on headphones himself. That was what he did to ease the tension when doing such work, the official said, describing the contents of the audio recording.
Such information would not have been disclosed in Turkey without the consent of the government. Turkish media outlets and newspapers are closely controlled: They are either government-controlled or owned by pro-government business executives. Censors are often present in newsrooms, and reporters and editors take close instructions from officials in the presidency.
The Turkish leaks implicating Saudi officials in the Khashoggi case have followed a distinctive pattern, beginning quickly after his disappearance. The leaks stopped when President Trump suggested that he was taking the accusations seriously and sent Mr. Pompeo to Saudi Arabia for answers.
But the leaks appeared to resume after Saudi leaders repeated their denials of involvement to Mr. Pompeo, and Mr. Trump defended the crown prince as having been unfairly accused.
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"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Amazing how Trump suddenly starts talking about due process as soon as one of his friends breaks the law. With brown people or his political enemies, literally he should have the power to be judge, jury, and executioner. It's rule by law, not rule of law, in which no due process is utilized.
Poor brown people:
"No you shitty illegal, we're not going to allow you to see a judge so that you can get out of this banishment merely by presenting that birth certificate and proof of citizenship! Shouldn't have been a spic!"
"America loves torture because it's fun! Why would it have to produce results LOL!"
With his friends:
"What, all you have is audio and video of them dismembering the guy? What a witch hunt!"
Suddenly like no evidence at all is enough.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
evince (10-17-2018)
FYI this is proof that the Saudi government has in their employ a guy who regularly dismembers people alive and listens to music to put himself at ease while committing the crime.
These are our "allies".
Why haven't we droned these agents yet?
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Jack (10-17-2018)
Watermark & other JPP liberals only pretend to care about Khashoggi because he was anti-Trump.
How smart could Khashoggi have been to enter that Embassy in the first place? Was he expecting to be greeted with a warm welcome?
the religious right is as evil as they are for supporting this
Jack (10-17-2018)
IT IS IN FUCKING ARABIC YOU RETARDED IDIOT WHAT THE FUCK GOOD WOULD THE AUDIO DO YOU
THIS IS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES THEY LISTENED TO IT, TRANSLATED IT, AND TRANSCRIBED IT
Again, all of the sudden we need literally scientific levels of evidence which would result in 99% of criminals going free if it were required in normal trials. No limit to the backflips they will do to justify.
"Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34
Fake News CNN says "it is unlikely that there is a recording of the alleged killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been transmitted using his Apple Watch".
You must believe CNN, JPP liberals!
Can’t be true, the Saudi King denied it strongly!
Denied it directly to baby TRump.
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