Two weeks after his disappearance, Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi was killed inside Istanbul consulate
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Saudi Arabia on Saturday admitted that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul in a "fist fight", state media said, two weeks after his disappearance sparked a global furore.
"The discussions between Jamal Khashoggi and those he met at the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul... devolved into a fistfight, leading to his death," the Saudi Press Agency said, citing the public prosecutor.
The kingdom also announced the sacking of a top intelligence official Ahmad al-Assiri and royal court media adviser Saud al-Qahtani, both top aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who has faced mounting pressure over the Khashoggi affair.
Editorial: Jamal Khashoggi case
Saudi journalist Khashoggi, a critic of the kingdom's leadership and a Washington Post contributor, was last seen on October 2 entering his country's consulate in Istanbul.
His disappearance had been shrouded in mystery and triggered an international crisis, with Turkish officials accusing Saudi Arabia of a state-sponsored killing.
The kingdom announced that 18 people had been arrested in the ongoing probe.
Also read: US, Europe shun Saudi conference over journalist Khashoggi's disappearance
The Saudi king also ordered the setting up of a ministerial committee under the chairmanship of the crown prince to restructure the kingdom's intelligence agency and "define its powers accurately", state media said.
Shortly before Riyadh confirmed that Khashoggi had been killed, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Saudi King Salman agreed in telephone talks to continue cooperation in the investigation into the Khashoggi affair.
Erdogan and Salman "emphasised the importance of continuing to work together with complete cooperation", said a Turkish presidential source, who asked not to be named.
The United States warned on Friday of a "wide range" of responses should it determine that Saudi Arabia is behind the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as Turkey widened its investigation into the scandal.
President Donald Trump said the United States, which is Saudi Arabia's biggest backer, could impose sanctions over the feared murder of Khashoggi.
His top diplomat Mike Pompeo told Voice of America Radio: "We'll certainly consider a wide range of potential responses."
The Trump administration has been notably slow to criticise Saudi Arabia, despite mounting evidence that Khashoggi, a critic of the petro-state's powerful crown prince, vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
The Khashoggi case has presented Trump with one of the most acute foreign policy crises of his nearly two-year-old presidency.
Pro-government Turkish media have repeatedly claimed that Khashoggi was tortured and decapitated by a Saudi hit squad inside the diplomatic mission, although Turkey has yet to divulge details about the investigation.
The controversy has put the kingdom — for decades a key Western ally and bulwark against Iran in the Middle East — under unprecedented pressure to offer an explanation to take the heat off its rulers.
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Oct 20, 2018 04:37am
What a facade. They assasinated an innocent human being because he spoke the truth. Now they are lying to cover a previous lie. Shame on saudis
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Oct 20, 2018 04:41am
All pre planned murder
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Oct 20, 2018 04:43am
Sugar coating a murder. But a murder is a murder. Where is the body ? Hand it to loved ones for proper burial.
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Oct 20, 2018 04:44am
An out of shape 59 years old person indulged in fist fight with 15 security personnel, half his age. And those people came equipped with a bone saw. What a shameless lie. If a person try to cut my fingers I will also resist and try to push back.
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Oct 20, 2018 04:48am
Really! I don't buy ONE BIT OF THIS "NEW STORY" by the saudis.
Note to self: Don't ever visit saudi consulate.
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Oct 20, 2018 04:55am
The media advisor was fired!!! For not keeping the scandal quiet. What did the media advisor have to do with the murder the royals are trying to claim was not premeditated murder but only simple manslaughter? Firing the media advisor shows us where the king's and crown prince's heads are at.
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Oct 20, 2018 04:56am
the head of the snake should be chopped.
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Oct 20, 2018 04:59am
There was a fist fight. Khashoggi's face and their fists. He got into a fistfight with a clerk while finishing the paperwork for his marriage? Don't think so.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:02am
Nice, now everyone wins, and the Prince gets away with murder again, in the face of international attention. The Saudis, the Turks and the Americans can now point to sacrificial scapegoats as dispensing of justice. While a sincere individual and his memory and legacy suffocate in the dust. Shame.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:02am
So what were rhey doing with the bone saw in the Counsel general office.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:03am
That is a stupid lie. If he did die in a fist fight, then why are you hiding his body? A prominent journalist is dead, have courage and be truthful. Now work little harder and cook up another explanation.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:09am
Lies from start to finish.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:10am
Just a cover-up to save MBS. All others know who is behind this murder but money is important for everyone.
Take money to forget what happened inside the consulate. The world is the hypocrite.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:13am
Saudi population stands at minus one. Generally people take protective refuge in their embassies and consulates in case of any eventuality or danger but in this case it happened otherwise. I pray the departed soul rests in peace, aameen. Iqbal Hadi Zaidi
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Oct 20, 2018 05:13am
Premeditated murder, as simple as that, with the blessings from Riyadh.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:14am
First it was said he left the building alive, next they said they don’t know and now they say he got killed in a gust fight but they still don’t know where the body is? Cut into pieces and took it to KSA or dumped the body in a nearby forest ? They now have arrested 18 guys and are they going to behead them fiorcservibg a prince? What about MSB who was responsible for ordering the killing
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Oct 20, 2018 05:17am
It took them such a long time to adnit their folly.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:18am
This means MBS will be a "persona non grata" in most of the Countries hope Pakistan is one of them.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:19am
Sad news but world already knew some time ago. He was on the list . Nothing will happen, just another killing of a journalist.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:19am
A heinous murder.
An abhorrent cover up.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:21am
Question: Where is his body? Did he cut himself into pieces after the fist fight?
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Oct 20, 2018 05:22am
Do you really expect us to believe this? A mild mannered 59 year old got into a "fist fight" with 15+ security agents? This was murder, plain and simple, organized by the Saudis. Why would you send a team with a forensic pathologist equipped with a saw bone? I hope Trump will be able to look beyond his personal financial entanglements with the Saudis and deliver a hammer blow to the kingdom. They deserve it. I feel for the family of Jamal who have had to live this nightmare.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:22am
David Ignatius, a columnist of The Washington Post, wrote in an article published on October 16, 2018, that " One possible scapegoat, according to several sources, may be Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri ".
Now, this has turned out to be true.
MBS is flying high because of his grip in Kingdom and support of USA.
Killing in Yemen, Syria, Palestine, all have involvement of this MBS directly or indirectly.
The USA attacked Iraq to remove the dictator Saddam because he was oppressing his people but no stern action on this episode, rather sent Pompeo, the former director of CIA, to the Kingdom to cover-up the situation.
Bravo!
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Oct 20, 2018 05:24am
One murder too many by MBS.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:31am
Where is body. It’s a barbaric act .
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Oct 20, 2018 05:32am
The only truth that Saudis have accepted is that Khashoggi is dead; they claimed earlier that he had left their Consulate in Istanbul alive. and safe.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:34am
Political scapegoats!
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Oct 20, 2018 05:40am
This could not have been done without consent of MBS or if this was result of instant rage, Saudis should have come clean. Now will the Saudis behead their own 18 accused as is prevalent there. The world should interfere and do not let these predators rule and bring much needed democracy and abolish medevial mindset and laws.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:45am
@Omar You wrote " Don't ever visit saudi consulate. " as if you will be safer in Saudi Arabia. Had it happened in Saudi Arabia , no news would have come out.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:48am
So if he was killed fist fights can they please produce his body for cremation?
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Oct 20, 2018 05:54am
Let's look at the big picture now, either US impose sanction on SA or not, if it does, it would escalate a long lasting crisis between the two.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:57am
Our prime ministers planed to visit SA to attend conference, he should avoid that, just to show his grief. It doesn't matter who killed him, it was happened inside the cosulate, so Kingdom os SA is fully responsible.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:59am
How come a person asked to visit the Consulate to collect his documents turns into a fist fight?
Saud royal family has enough blood of innocent Muslims on their hands. They don’t qualify to remain the custodians of Makkah and Madina. Muslims in general but Pakistan in particular must end its ties with this brutal regime. Don’t let them invest in Pakistan.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:02am
What a joke. Saudi thinks world is stupid. His body is dismembered. Unless of course he had a fist fight with wolverine!
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Oct 20, 2018 06:03am
19 against 1 an even fistfight.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:05am
@John hoffman gruesome premeditated murder cannot be called a folly.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:26am
The major question that still remains unanswered being, what was Khashoggi's mega crime that he (according to Salman) deserved to be murdered so unceremoniously and with such audacity?
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Oct 20, 2018 06:39am
What happened to his body?
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Oct 20, 2018 06:40am
Lies after lies by the saudis
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Oct 20, 2018 06:40am
International criminal court should start take action against king and Prince salman against murder charges for killing innocent people of saudi arabia They are tarnishing the name of Islam by their lust of power and safeguarding the western interst in middle East.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:40am
@Pakistani
Mr. Pakistani,
Correct.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:41am
@Dilruba
Ms. Dilruba,
Without any doubt.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:42am
Thanks to Turkish President who despite pressure from King Salman was steadfast on his stand that Journalist was tortured, killed and his body dismembered in the Saudi consulate, which finally forced SA to accept journalist's death.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:44am
@Sojourn truth
Mr. Sojourn truth,
It seems the Saudi government has no
explanation.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:44am
Imran Khan should show some spine and not attend the investors conference. We don't need thier blood stained riyals.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:46am
@Jawaid kamal
Mr. Jawaid kamal,
You are right.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:50am
Yes, He was fighting for his life.
And part of the fight was dismembering him alive? ok
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Oct 20, 2018 06:56am
So they found someone to blame.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:58am
All this to keep the little prince safe.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:00am
Blood of an innocent will haunt you MBS
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Oct 20, 2018 07:04am
The ever murderous kingdom of Saudi Arabia.... from Yemen to dissidents .... just an oil rich country wielding its money power !!!!
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Oct 20, 2018 07:07am
Cover up already in progress as couple of scapegoats were removed!
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Oct 20, 2018 07:15am
Who are they kidding? Cover up written all over their story.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:18am
@Bill where is his corpse ?
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Oct 20, 2018 07:19am
So where is the body?
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Oct 20, 2018 07:20am
Killed in a fist fight? You can't come up with a better explanation?
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Oct 20, 2018 07:20am
Some fistfight - an over 50+ journalist getting into a fist fight - you need to do better than that to provide a credible excuse for his death.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:22am
People are surprised this story is not true. Of course it’s not true, it was clear they had to make up a storyline and they did just that.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:23am
"The Saudi king also ordered the setting up of a ministerial committee under the chairmanship of the crown prince to restructure the kingdom's intelligence agency"
I am NOT very surprised to read this.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:27am
Fooling the world, the main man MBS must be removed from the post
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Oct 20, 2018 07:28am
For two weeks the Saudis were saying they did not know what happened to him. So either they were lying then, or they are lying now, or they were lying then and now. Knowing the Saudi government, I will go with the third option.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:29am
@Shah Well said. A preplanned murder to silence an irritating critic of MBS. Presence of pathologist in the group of murder squad, must have done his professional job by cutting the body into pieces to facilitate disposal. This confession of accidental killing, that too coming after17 days, is a farce & totally fabricated. Those behind this cold blooded murder, thought it to be business as usual and after little noise here and there, would fizzle out soon. But to the contrary when the noise became louder & louder with demand of a probe by the world body, a make believe story is now being propagated. The scapegoats removed or incarcerated, in dream cannot cook and execute such a heinous crime on their own. As you have rightly said, first and the foremost is to produce the body of the victim, if that exists. Let the postmortem report verify the facts that whether it is premeditated murder following torture or accidental as claimed.Let us keep our finger crossed for truth to come out soon
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Oct 20, 2018 07:29am
All right, this was a fist fight. But where is the body. And I would also like to see the 18 shrimps, who could not subdue a single old man, and had to kill him. And, if this interrogation was all happening inside the embassy, where is the video tape ? What happened ? Aren't all the important buildings being constatntly monitored through video tapes ? Especially interrogations ordered by an intelligence agaency.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:30am
They said earlier he had left the consulate. Technically they were not lying then either. They did neglect to say though that he left the consulate as a corpse.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:31am
Isn't beheading the punishment for murder in SA?
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Oct 20, 2018 07:34am
Bones thrown did work finally. Turkey and US have promised to work and cooperate with Saudi closely.
RIP Khashogi. This is a jungle.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:34am
Sad that world has to believe this story, as if we were born yesterday. Powerful can get away with any story, and poor are in the jails always everywhere.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:36am
@Shah They have not figured out the story on the body yet, soon will come.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:36am
This Saudi Arabia is a rogue state. The world should impose tough sanctions to teach her a lesson.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:36am
@gaitor If you expect Trump to take real action against SA, you are sadly mistaken.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:37am
@Syed He is just a reporter, what about the PM of Lebanon, who went missing in Riyadh for few days and world was quiet.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:39am
Yes, he was killed inside the Saudi consulate and it took Saudis two weeks to admit their guilt. All the hallmarks of state sponsored crime.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:45am
It took Saudis two weeks to concoct this lame excuse. No medical assistance or emergency response was warranted as Jamal lay dying inside the Saudi consulate.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:47am
@Ehsan yes if alive journalist was fist fighting with 15 or so terrorists what was his dead body fighting with that you didn’t spare even his dead body.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:52am
Hushing up is going to cost, but the alternative can cost even more. Hobsons choice!
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Oct 20, 2018 07:53am
It is just a Saudi smoke screen to hide their heinous crime. Saudis did not ask for assistance from the emergency response services in Istanbul because they wanted to hide it from the world.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:54am
Barbaric and bigots Saudis.
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Oct 20, 2018 08:15am
This is becoming serious. Now tell the world where is his body.
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Oct 20, 2018 08:22am
Now Missing Person in friendly Saudi Arabia!!
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Oct 20, 2018 08:22am
USA has already received the bribe and Turkey will also receive his share soon. Nice u turn by Trump
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Oct 20, 2018 08:23am
@Omar or saudi itself?
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Oct 20, 2018 08:26am
Will PM IK still make the trip for the conference which many are boycotting ?
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Oct 20, 2018 08:29am
another lie.fabricated story about fist fight.It is preplanned murder.saudies cannot be trusted.
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Oct 20, 2018 08:29am
once he entered the consulate he got into a fist fight with some people and then accidentally he died, and then after his death he stumbled and fell on a bonesaw and got dismembered ......
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Oct 20, 2018 08:34am
Unusual fistfight! . Was his body also accidently cut into pieces too?
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Oct 20, 2018 08:38am
After almost three week, this is the excuse, a fist fight, wow how incompetent Saudis are? No knowledge was better excuse and let the world prove I think saudi did what sharif family did in panama case, shooting on own foot.
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Oct 20, 2018 08:39am
How many people are killed in the world by fistfight?
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Oct 20, 2018 08:42am
On expected lines.
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Oct 20, 2018 08:51am
no wonder it is hard to trust saudis , killing fellow muslims
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Oct 20, 2018 08:53am
if he is dead no problem just pay blood money and things ill be fine Erdogans turkey
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Oct 20, 2018 09:02am
So far Saudi acts were limited to their own country. They have now taken their barbarism to international level.Hope Mr. Trump can forget dollars and get justice for Khashoggi.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:06am
@IQBAL HADI ZAIDI , I pray he becomes a gin and haunts the (Un)royal family out of power once and for all.
They scamper all over the world to seek asylum but find nowhere.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:08am
If the world 'buys' this blatant lie by the Saudis (and Saudis' cheque books have already bought the love of the US president whose words in this case have been seen by a US Senator as those of a 'heroin dealer defending his trade'), the real and brutal face of western liberalism, hidden behind the thin veil of human rights and democracy, would at least be laid bare!
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Oct 20, 2018 09:09am
Imran Khan should cancel his visit on 23rd Oct to Saudi Arabia. If he still truly stands for his slogan "Justice".
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Oct 20, 2018 09:12am
Really----Trump is so naïve---- so trustful, so far Saudi Arabia and India is concerned.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:13am
Killer King !!
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Oct 20, 2018 09:19am
Another theory could be just like America allowed Saddam to attacked Kuwait they allowed Saudi to do this killing. Remember two weeks ago But president Trump said if they don’t support Saudi their government will be overtaken in two weeks?
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Oct 20, 2018 09:21am
Where are mortal remains?
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Oct 20, 2018 09:29am
Yeah almost all fist fights result in death and evaporation of the body
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Oct 20, 2018 09:31am
What Saudi rulers always forget that, ' Idea of human freedom remains one of the greatest idea that the world has ever known' Any effort to transform this idea shall bound to fail. It is the human freedom where lay power of logic.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:34am
Where is his body,it will show if he died in a fist fight.The penalty for killing in Saudi is a promotion.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:35am
Cooked up story...
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Oct 20, 2018 09:39am
Cut ties with such dangerous dictators.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:41am
Hunt for scapegoats and fall guys is on.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:46am
A liar, fool, and a true coward, this so-called prince.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:48am
World will not forget this and neither forgive MBS and Saudi Arabia.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:50am
Now that the Saudis have admitted to the killing, they should tell the Turks where to look for the body. Mr. Khashoggi deserves a decent funeral.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:55am
And where did the body go? This is going to be really take ksa on backfoot
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Oct 20, 2018 09:57am
After lying over two weeks they are finally forced to admit under world pressure. Saudi Arabia is a worst state for its citizens. MBS is responsible. Shame on you man. No one believes this story of fist fight. Where is Khasoggi's body?
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Oct 20, 2018 10:12am
No body cares about Jamal Khashoggi. Here USA and Turkey and others will try to get maximum benefit from Saudia. If MBS give them what they want, the case will be hushed up in a matter of weeks. Otherwise it will take few months. No body would like to compromise on the benefits they can extract from Saudia.
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Oct 20, 2018 10:24am
@Najma Hisham
Actually he chopped his corpse before he made himself disappear..
Just ask MBS himself!
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Oct 20, 2018 10:44am
Never thought that a country can go so far to silent the dissidents.
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Oct 20, 2018 10:49am
Shame on custodians of holy places.
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Oct 20, 2018 11:01am
RIP Mr. Kashoggi.
Finally, after the visit of his Imperial Highness Pompeo, Saudia has admitted to the killing of Adnan Kashoggi.
The admission of killing is in a roundabout way and not as per what transpired according to the media. Salams
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Oct 20, 2018 11:36am
Why not king to resign and prince to be arrested?
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Oct 20, 2018 11:38am
If i was imran khan. I would like to cancel my trip to Saudi Arabia.
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Oct 20, 2018 11:43am
After denying for days the Saudis now admit Jamal Khashoggi was killed in a fist fight, with 15 people who were sent to Istanbul in two private planes to engage him in the fight. After the fight they flew right back. What a joke!
Intelligence and interior ministries report to MBS.The killers are closely associated with MBS, there is no way they could have acted alone. Jamal criticised MBS and paid the price in such a barbaric manner.
Now an investigation committee has been formed in Saudi Arabia to investigate Jamal’s death. It is headed by MBS.
From the outset Trump has been trying to protect the Saudis. It is very true; Money talks. This case proves it.
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Oct 20, 2018 11:46am
“Fist fight”..!!Please release the body and let the law determine the more of death.
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Oct 20, 2018 11:47am
Fist fight! Really?
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Oct 20, 2018 11:50am
Inhuman act by royal family who could have handled this in some other way without killing a human.
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Oct 20, 2018 11:53am
The royals have spoken. It's time for all eyes, ears and minds to be closed. Justice has been served!
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Oct 20, 2018 11:59am
No body can bell this cat
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Oct 20, 2018 12:02pm
I hope our prime minister keeps this fact in mind when he travels to ksa to seek money that they killed a man in their consulate with fists. If a country treats its citizens like that, then how much compassion they will show for others? BTW Where's the body. Bodies don't disappear after fist fights
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Oct 20, 2018 12:07pm
This is nothing new for these murderers. Difference is this time they got caught.
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Oct 20, 2018 12:11pm
It was known from day 1, now SA need to show his remains.
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Oct 20, 2018 12:39pm
the prince has done something which might put him in trouble is coming days... might not become a king it seems ... but what ever he admitted now is too late ...
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Oct 20, 2018 01:06pm
Now Saudis admit that Khashoggi was killed inside the consolute, as this is obvious and Turkish authorities stated from day one. Now Saudis are in trouble, they are in deep waters and who will rescue and save them from this self created mess them?
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Oct 20, 2018 01:16pm
Too little, too late. Now once again, they will have to lie thousands of times just to insist on one lie that the top hierarchy of the country was not involved in this brutal murder and heinous crime against humanity pertaining to a hapless, vulnerable, weak, feeble and helpless writer, who wanted to say the truth and nothing but the truth through his writings, thoughts, research and publications. What a grave and great tragedy?
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Oct 20, 2018 01:18pm
@AZAM AKBAR. Its state crime.
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Oct 20, 2018 01:21pm
Turkey is a strong country so will not try to hide information. Overambitious and inexperienced Prince have exposed himself to the world
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Oct 20, 2018 01:25pm
@Jasim Khan They not only murdered him, but they cut his body into pieces and took them back to saudi in suit cases, just because he spoke truth against royal family. Saudi should be held accountable for this murder and all other human rights violations.
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Oct 20, 2018 01:34pm
The fist fight-----what a fabulous sandy fable!
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Oct 20, 2018 01:34pm
Habeas Corpus. Produce the body. They could have still kidnapped him and could be still torturing him.
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Oct 20, 2018 01:39pm
First Saudi said he left on his own. Then under pressure saying he died due to fist fight. Yes very credible ..who said.. President Trump..great...sad is all these people think common man are fool or they simply don't care what people say...
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Oct 20, 2018 01:42pm
These are the people that rule our holiest place! What a shame!
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Oct 20, 2018 01:43pm
End of the news > No washing the body and no burial. Iqbal Hadi Zaidi
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Oct 20, 2018 01:55pm
Having his fingers chopped off and then his head was not exactly a fist fight. Such absolute brutality is unacceptable. Totally. Shame on each one of those responsible, from the top of the leadership to the last.. and to think they call themselves Muslim.. Shame shame shame....
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Oct 20, 2018 02:08pm
How many more lies they have to say to protect just one shameful lie?
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Oct 20, 2018 02:28pm
@Wasim Baig You have no investment ties. What exactly will you do? You don’t have any options.
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Oct 20, 2018 02:29pm
Where is the body?
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Oct 20, 2018 02:30pm
It is white collar crime
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Oct 20, 2018 02:53pm
Where is the body??
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Oct 20, 2018 02:57pm
@Ishtiaque in Raymond Davis case also u took money and let the criminal flee away from ur country. Money talks a lot.
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Oct 20, 2018 02:58pm
it is nothing but covering a cold blooded murder . why fist fight in the consulate , what they wanted to ask him except kill him they got a chance when he came in . it is shameful . this govt is a gift of M16 (english). they have bought him against turks the results are worst.
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Oct 20, 2018 02:59pm
MBS knew it on the day one what had happened. His envoy in Saudi consulate in Istanbul knew it. By firing two officials , he is using a smoke screen.
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Oct 20, 2018 03:04pm
The Amins of Saudia finally admitting their guilt!
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Oct 20, 2018 03:41pm
Grand coverup ongoing. Most unbelievable! But for the right amount of dollars, a lie can become the truth!
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Oct 20, 2018 03:47pm
A scuffle between journalist and mission personnel over a marraige certificate results in his death. What a joke? Prince should find some better excuse. I dont think this issue will be solved so easily.
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Oct 20, 2018 03:48pm
Now world want to findout from Saudis where Jamal's body is ?
Cruel.............
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Oct 20, 2018 04:09pm
So shameful yet not entirely unexpected. This is the world we will live in as long as Donald Trump is the American president. Dictators of the world will literally get away with murder because the leader of the free world has abdicated his moral leadership in the name of petty financial interests. Welcome to the new normal.
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Oct 20, 2018 04:09pm
The lies and lies all the way!
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Oct 20, 2018 04:54pm
It's all changing Middle Eastern politics. First , the USA was making arms deals with Saudis and white happy with them. Then, Turkey and Qatar acceded to certain US demands and also made better deals with the Americans, so now the Saudis are villains implicated in a murder that took place in Turkey. All very suspicious.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:15pm
MBS must be punished for this
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Oct 20, 2018 05:37pm
@Azam Jan Your two words show the real face of Saudis.
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Oct 20, 2018 05:40pm
Crown Prince Salman appointed as chairman of a ministerial committee to investigate the murder of a journalist Jamal Khoshaggi is like a fox guarding the hen house. Crown prince is the one who ordered and planned the killing. The 15 member squad team was sent from SA to Turkey in a special plane to carry out the murder. This explanation and arrest of 18 low level operatives is a sham and not acceptable.Severe sanctions are in order to punish the monarchy and hold MBS responsible for the gruesome killing of an innocent man. One way out is to ask the king to revoke the decree appointing MBS as crown price and exile him to a foreign country. He is also responsible for the kidnapping of PM of Lebanon, detaining royal family members and attacking a school bus resulting in the death of 42 students in Yemen.The Yemen conflict is costing the Saudis millions of dollars every week and they are running out of money. 110 billion dollar arms deal with US is funded by steep rise in Hajj /Umra fees.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:23pm
What else can they say under such a trying circumstance?
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Oct 20, 2018 06:25pm
@Vijay B. That was answered a long time ago. He was his most vocal critic, even as merely a very tame reformer, let alone a revolutionary. Salman put women in Jail for talking about right to drive. Talking about across the board free speech was intolerable to him. In death, Khashoggi ensured that Salman will never be king.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:27pm
No need for sugar coated false explanations.Future king of Saudi Arabia is a cruel murderer.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:30pm
@Ayesha What does it take to convince you that Salman was behind this? Video with him holding the bone saw over him? His own security detail voices were recorded in the act.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:35pm
This is complete bunch of white lies: "...devolved into a fistfight, leading to his death..". It is inconceivable that the unarmed innocent intellectual journalist and social scientist will initiate fist fight.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:50pm
The true face of Sadi crown prince. After two weeks of discussions and wiping of the evidence, Saudi Arabia has come up with these lame excuses. A life, particularly a voice against the royal family, must be silenced and this is exactly how this murder was carried out. All 18 people, including the crown prince, should stand trial in Turkey. I am also sure that Saudi government will never allow that to happen. All these Saudis involved in killing an innocent journalist will never be punished for anything. Saudi officials lied to the world that Jamal Khashoggi left the consulate after a little while, how can we believe what they are saying now is the truth. Sadly, the truth will never come out and we will all live happily afterwards.
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Oct 20, 2018 06:54pm
Single unarmed man scuffles with 15-18 military men and that's it. Joke of the year!
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Oct 20, 2018 07:01pm
Pure evil!
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Oct 20, 2018 07:06pm
Not only on Saudis but also on US too who just to secure arms lucrative deal ignore this heinous assassination.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:25pm
@SajjadX - "They could have still kidnapped him and could be still torturing him."
Read the news properly, SA finally admits he has already been killed. This is what Turkey has been saying all along. So where is the doubt when accuser and accused have admitted?
Don't concoct silly conspiracies in your mind!
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Oct 20, 2018 07:29pm
**Lies**
**Bare Faced White Lies**
A. Why was this 'Fisticuff Death' not reported to the Turkish Authorities?
B. Where is the Body?
C. What is the role of the Consul General in not reporting a murder and destruction of the body?
D. Who authorised a Goon Gang to visit Turkey for the 'Fisticuffs'?
E. Who own the two 'Private Jets' used in bringing the 'Fists' to Turkey?
F. When did Riyadh become aware of the 'Fisticuff Death'?
G. Why did the Consul General not report it immediately?
H. Why has Riyadh been lying till now?
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Oct 20, 2018 07:37pm
I understand that killing of any human is unjust etc but I can’t understand why is the USA so interested in this case and putting so much pressure on saudis. There must be something else in the background.
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Oct 20, 2018 07:50pm
Where is the body? At least give him proper burial.
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Oct 20, 2018 08:08pm
@Asad.Jamal Khoshaggi, the journalist was a permanent resident of US and a regular contributor to Washington post, a prestigious US newspsper. Freedom of the press ,free speech and a democracy is a cornerstone of US policy. POTUS (US president) has been very lenient with Saudi Monarchi but the US people and the congress members are furious at Saudi outrageous behavuor.If Tump does not impose sanctions on SA, congress is to act.
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Oct 20, 2018 08:29pm
It is one of the cruelest and preplanned murder. This is also breach of diplomatic immunity by Saudis.If Saudis are interested in justice, then they should arrested all the culprits and hand over them Turkish authorities for trial.
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Oct 20, 2018 08:34pm
Arab Spring did not bring down Saudi royalty. Will Arab Fall cause their fall? I hope so.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:16pm
The stains of this innocent blood will haunt Saudis forever... where's his body which you cut into pieces????? If he died in a fist fight then where's his dead body?????
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Oct 20, 2018 09:23pm
Saudis are the cause of most of the terror in the world. Oil rich and stupid.
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Oct 20, 2018 09:33pm
When we have friends like this then no need of enemies
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Oct 20, 2018 09:59pm
The US talks the talk but can it walk the talk? Severe ties with Saudi and prove to the American public that money will not take precedence over human life.
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Oct 20, 2018 10:03pm
Who is the prime beneficiary of MBS's blunder!
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Oct 20, 2018 10:53pm
Barbaric butchers who have no regard for the human life.
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Oct 20, 2018 11:14pm
Truth sustains but not lies. In fifteen days, SA has concocted new stories which have been hard to sustain. The whole world is now against a SA ruled by MBS and Trump alone supports him!
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Oct 20, 2018 11:38pm
Lie Story of the year that he was killed in a fist fight.....now what is next step to for covering murdur into fist fight blanket. Where is international or ngo's now who easily take action Pakistan without proves...
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Oct 21, 2018 12:29am
Why lie so blatantly. So where is the body. Out with it.
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Oct 21, 2018 01:03am
The murder of the journalist was very likely decided by the highest authorities of SA.
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Oct 21, 2018 01:47am
World knows the real culprit!!
Who will dare to punish and execute the Saudi justice
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Oct 21, 2018 03:16am
@Shehzada Rana, "Why not king to resign and prince to be arrested?"
KSA is not a democracy, where Civilian leadership takes ownership and accountability.
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Oct 21, 2018 04:36am
Saudis are buying their way out of this self created mess. A critic of MBS gets killed in the Saudi counsulate in Turkey, by 15 men who travel in a private plane , taking along a forensic expert and one head of MBS personal security, carrying huge oversized suitcases. And no one at the top knew about it. One of the 15 member team just died of car crash.
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Oct 21, 2018 04:37am
Really sad episode.
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Oct 21, 2018 07:14am
Saudia Arabia is one of the most notorious dictatorships in the world. Time for a regime change and a democratic saudia arabia.
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Oct 21, 2018 07:44am
The caption photo of the murdered and the murderer is out there for the world to see but sadly it is being ignored because the murderer is extremely rich. The blood money will be set extremely high but it wont be paid to the bereaved family but to the judge that holds the power over the kingdom.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:03am
Where is the body?
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Oct 21, 2018 08:32am
It'll take a stroke of genius to prevent this snow balling.
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Oct 21, 2018 08:42am
After a week of thinking and planning, is this what Trump and the Saudis came up with?
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Oct 21, 2018 08:43am
Where is the dead body?
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Oct 21, 2018 08:54am
@jayagor Have patience, they are working on a plausible story. It takes time.
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Oct 21, 2018 09:18am
how many Yeminis have to die at the hands of MBS and Saudis before the world would move.
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Oct 21, 2018 02:33pm
Why blame only MBS
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Oct 21, 2018 02:35pm
why blame only salman
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Oct 21, 2018 03:04pm
Why only blame Salman..
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Oct 21, 2018 06:09pm
As per Vienna Convention 1961, There’s a blanket protection and immunities to diplomats and missions. KSA has to take decisions and settle this matter. But the current question is to stop such incidents in future, that can be assured, and 100% security to visitors, can be granted, by fixing SOP ( Standard Operations Procedures) to all missions to build glass transparent kiosks outside missions walls,
and there should be one window operation for public dealing. The host nation ( receiving nation) must place security to monitor the kiosks. Such SOP will save lives of visitors. No visitors inside mission, all work from outside, through window.
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Oct 22, 2018 12:19am
Amazing ,they killed him and they don’t know where they dumped the body , this cannot be acceptable to any civilized society.
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Oct 22, 2018 12:42am
@Aslam
It took off.
I read an article by a Punjab high court justice in Daily Jang a while back describing in detail how his ancestor's headless corpse wreaked havoc in enemy lines.
Unfortunately I have forgotten gentleman's name..
Miracles do happen, you see.
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Oct 22, 2018 02:22am
@Bakhtawer Bilal
Indeed Jamal Khashoggi is the real Bruce Lee
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Oct 22, 2018 02:26am
@RUMI
Buddy there is no Saudi Consulate in Saudi Arabia... period
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Oct 22, 2018 07:37am
So they are admitting he's dead, but they don't know what happened to the body? One thing we all already know, its not going to be in one piece.
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Oct 22, 2018 07:37am
This is about the most hideous cover up I have ever heard of.
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Oct 22, 2018 10:41am
Who is training people to do these type of acts?
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Oct 22, 2018 12:25pm
Saudi murderers must be punished.
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Oct 22, 2018 03:33pm
Just a barbaric regime. Don't know why the US supports such a regime.
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Oct 22, 2018 10:02pm
Murderers
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