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In October 2018, journalist and critic of the Saudi regime Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and disappeared. According to Turkish investigators, he was murdered and dismembered inside the consulate. They claim that Saudi Arabia sent 15 people to Istanbul to assassinate Khashoggi. However, the body has never been found.
A year later, a Saudi court convicted eight people of participating in the murder. The US intelligence service, the CIA, accused Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who effectively controls Saudi Arabia, of personally ordering the assassination.
The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman.
Photo: Jacquelyn Martin / AP
New President of the United States Joe Biden now claims that he has read the intelligence report on Khashoggi’s murder. The report is expected to be released on Thursday and points to the role of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the death, Reuters writes.
The president also says he hopes to speak soon by phone with Saudi King Salman, the father of Mohammed bin Salman.
At the same time says CNN claims that the two private jets used by the death squad were owned by a company that was taken over by Saudi Arabia’s state wealth fund, which the Crown Prince controls, less than a year before the assassination. It is clear from the legal documents that the television company has found. The documents are part of a Canadian civil case and are marked with the words “top secret”. They have been signed by a Saudi minister who sent orders from the Crown Prince.
The head of the US Middle East Unit says the Crown Prince should have kept an eye on the company.
– It’s just more possible evidence that he knew about this. That has always been the opinion, says Dan Hoffman.
The crown prince has denied ordering the killing, but said that he, as the leader of Saudi Arabia, was responsible. UN investigators said in 2019 that it was unthinkable that the Crown Prince did not know about the operation and has called the verdicts against the eight people a parody of justice.
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