The grisly recording of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s final moments (before his body was butchered and remains dissolved in acid) that was purportedly captured by Turkish intelligence has reportedly been shared with international intelligence agencies including the US, and we imagine it’s only a matter of time before it leaks.
In a chilling preview of what’s to come, a Turkish news website has published quotes allegedly excerpted from the tape that delineate Khashoggi’s final struggle with members of the 15-man hit squad that Turkey believes was sent to the consulate with specific instructions to murder Khashoggi.
Haaretz gathered the quotes and translated them into English. According to the website, Khashoggi was immediately confronted by four Saudis after entering the consulate, one of whom grabbed his arm.
“Release my arm! What do you think you are doing?” website Haberturk quotes Khashoggi as saying at the consulate’s “A unit,” where the visa department is located, and where seven minutes of the tape are recorded.
Khashoggi was then brought to the embassy’s “B Room”, where the purported leader of the hit squad, Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, started threatening the journalist.
“Traitor! You will be brought to account,” Mutreb is heard shouting, according to Haberturk.
The rest of the recording features what the Turkish news organization described as verbal fighting, brawling and torture. After Khashoggi had been murdered, one of the hit squad members donned his clothes in an attempt to disguise himself as the journalist to bolster the embassy’s eventual claim that he left the embassy. This prompted a joke from one member of the hit squad, according to RT.
It is spooky to wear the clothes of a man whom we killed 20 minutes ago.
As the recording shows, some 19 phone calls were made to Saudi Arabia from the embassy’s “C Unit”, where the consul’s office was located. Four of those calls were reportedly made by Mutreb and Saud al-Qahtani, the close adviser to Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman who has been targeted by Treasury Sanctions and is also facing punitive measures in Saudi Arabia. According to previously released details from the recording, when the Saudi consul (who has also been targeted by US sanctions and has been implicated in the Saudis investigation) objected to the hit squad’s killing, he was told that “if you want to live when you get back to Saudi, shut up.”
Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2 after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve paperwork that would allow him to marry his fiance. His remains have not been found.
The Muslim Brotherhood being rabid murderous jihadists is one thing but to our darling leftists, it is more relevant that they are hardcore communists and also rabid murderous jihadists. Huma Abedin is the daughter of a senior MB muckity-muck etc. The MB is part of the global commie cabal…..as opposed to the Wahabbist rabid murderous clan in charge of SA……who at least pretend to like commerce once they nationalized all the oil companies…..lovely people all of them.
Unfortunately, the USA made a decision in 1973 at Bretton Woods to back the USD with the trade in oil and the Petro-Dollar was born requiring us to the be the guarantor of the security of the precious black gold oil fields and support the very unpleasant folks in Riyadh.
So the murder of Mr. K is an Emmet Till moment for the Leftists….doesn’t matter what Mr. K did/said etc he is now forever the poster child of Trumpian oppression! What they really mean is that it looks good for their team to bash Trump with K’s death as if he had anything to with it…..but the real goal, of course, is to install leftists everywhere and if they can control the oil even better. Thus the MSM bangs the gong and waves the bloody shirt. Not too difficult.
Serious question, but is there some kind of assumption that everyone who reads the news is incapable of remembering what was published prior to whatever replaces that news?
So now he’s been dissolved in acid? Because before today he was cut up into pieces and taken out of the embassy in diplomatic pouches, buried in the garden out back, and dumped in a landfill. He’s been killed at least four different ways and now this comes out as if it were factual, by the same people who reported on all those other alleged factual accounts.
Is it the drugs? What editor looks at this and says, “F*ck it, no one will remember what we wrote last month, they’re all on Ambien”
As recently as yesterday Trump was still saying Crown Prince MBS had NOTHING to do with it ……… because, well, Crown Prince MBS said he didn’t have anyrthing to do with it.
That there is flawless Trumpian logic, folks. I’m with him!
You’re overthinking Trump. He’s got a strain of Tourette’s Syndrome where he says whatever he’s thinking at any given moment without actually having considered the reality of it. Not sure if that will help, but once you listen to him through that lens it all starts to make more sense.
I’m sick of hearing about one journalist murdered when other journalists are murdered around the world and nobody gives a damn. Since he was a “Washington Post” contributor, he’s become a big deal. I could care less.
Not to mention, something is afoot within the deep state in trying to get the U.S. to turn on the Saudi’s. I don’t like Saudi Arabia, just like I don’t like the rest of the Middle East, but something is up. I just hope Trump doesn’t fall for it.
Couldn’t care less.
If you could care less, it means you have some “caring” left in the tank.
Yeah, I guess I do have some caring left in the tank, but it’s being used up rather quickly, especially with this type of nonsense. I’ll probably be on “empty” soon.
Roger that.
I busted your chops pretty good a while back. I can’t remember the circumstances, but I am pretty sure you didn’t deserve the abuse I dished up. My sincere apologies.
No hard feelings, Rdawg. I’m getting used to it now. You have to get used to it on this site. But we all have days when someone else strikes us the wrong way and we go off.
I’m having a few brews to relax. I suggest you join me. 🙂
In the next election it will be used against Trump along with similar types of horrible actions. They will use what is available to them throug the normal course of events. Attention will be paid to a narrative to make Trump look as bad as possible. This one in bad either way. People lose jobs or he sides with brutes.