Still Missing Turkey - Jamal Khashoggi, 59, Washington Post columnist, Istanbul, 3 Oct 2018

[JudgeJudi]

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is suspending future projects with the Misk Foundation, a non-profit chaired by Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

"Jamal Khashoggi's abduction and murder are extremely troubling," a spokeswoman for the foundation told the Wall Street Journal.

"The current situation was a factor in our decision to hold off on future rounds."

The Gates Foundation said it will honour its obligations to projects already underway.

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How refreshing to see there are still some people with ethics.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Hatice Cengiz, JK’s fiancee, urged the international community to take action and hold those responsible for the crime to account.

"Today, I am inviting the international community to take serious and practical steps to reveal the truth and to prosecute those involved in a court of law," Cengiz wrote in an opinion piece published by the Guardian newspaper.

"I am not naïve. I know that governments operate not on feelings but on mutual interests. However, they must all ask themselves a fundamental question."

"If the democracies of the world do not take genuine steps to bring to justice the perpetrators of this brazen, callous act - one that has caused universal outrage among their citizens - what moral authority are they left with? Whose freedom and human rights can they credibly continue to defend?"

Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates

I feel so incredibly sad for this woman. They were on the threshold of beginning their new life together when this appalling act took place. World leaders are all talking the talking but NONE are walking the walk.

 

[OneEye]

Khashoggi body 'dissolved in acid'
Latest update from the BBC - body believed to have been dissolved in acid

 

[I met murder on the way]

“According to the latest information we have, the reason they dismembered (Jamal Khashoffhi's) body is to dissolve it easier,” Yasin Aktay, an adviser to Turkish President, said in a statement to the Hurriyet Daily News, Reuters and the BBC reported Friday.

The statement bolsters a report by The Washington Post on Wednesday that authorities believed Khashoggi’s body may have been dismembered and immersed in acid ― either at the consulate or nearby, possibly in a well.

“Khashoggi’s body was not in need of burying,” said a senior Turkish official, who spoke to the Post on condition of anonymity.

Jamal Khashoggi's Body Dissolved After Dismemberment, Turkish Official Says | HuffPost

That last bit - "The body was not in need of burying" - chills.

 

[JudgeJudi]

A Turkish official said the JK’s body was dismembered and dissolved in acid. He also said that the Saudi hit squad that carried out the killing has done similar operations before.

Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates

 

[OneEye]

Interesting POV article about regional views of JK murder:
Subscribe to read | Financial Times

 

[JudgeJudi]

JK’s sons are appealing for the return of their father's body. They want to return to Saudi Arabia to bury him in Medina with the rest of his family. They said that without their father's body, their family is unable to grieve and deal with the emotional burden of his death.

Asked how Khashoggi should be remembered, Salah told CNN, "As a moderate man who has common values with everyone ... a man who loved his country, who believed so much in it and its potential."

"Jamal was never a dissident. He believed in the monarchy, that it is the thing that is keeping the country together. And he believed in the transformation that it is going through."

Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates

 

[petedavo.au]

Ragıp Soylu on Twitter
Turkish official confirms that a Saudi chemist and a toxicologist were sent to Istanbul on October 11, 9 days after Khashoggi's death, to clean up any leftover evidence

Story was first reported by @Sabah

Chemist; Ahmed Abdulaziz Aljanobi

Toxicologist; Khaled Yahya Al Zahrani Ragıp Soylu on Twitter

Ragıp Soylu on Twitter
Pictures of Saudi clean up team outside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul Ragıp Soylu on Twitter

Ragıp Soylu on Twitter
A Turkish official, speaking on condition of anonymity,:

“We believe that the two individuals came to Turkey for the sole purpose of covering up evidence of Khashoggi’s murder before the Turkish police were allowed to search the premises.”

Ragıp Soylu on Twitter
A Turkish official on the clean up team:

“The fact that a clean-up team was dispatched from Saudi Arabia nine days after the murder suggests that Khashoggi’s slaying was within the knowledge of top Saudi officials.”

 

[JudgeJudi]

SA deployed a chemist and toxicology expert to Istanbul after JK’s murder in an attempt to cover up evidence of the killing, according to a Turkish newspaper.

Pro-government daily Sabah reported on Monday that SA sent an 11-member "cover-up team" to Istanbul on October 11, nine days after JK vanished after entering the Saudi consulate to obtain paperwork for his marriage.

The chemist and toxicology expert were among "the so-called investigative team", which visited the consulate every day until October 17, before leaving Turkey on October 20. This may explain why SA did not allow Turkish police to search the consulate until October 15.

Last week the Saudi Attorney General me Turkish authorities but refused to share information from Riyadh's own investigation according to Turkish officials. "The Saudi officials seemed primarily interested in finding out what evidence the Turkish authorities had against the perpetrators" according to an unnamed source.

Saudi investigators had repeatedly asked Turkish officials for access to JK’s phone while they were investigating the case in Istanbul. However, JK gave both his phones to his fiancée before entering the consulate.

Saudi 'cover-up team' sent to dispose of Khashoggi body: report

 

[OneEye]

Cover up team article:
Saudi Arabia 'sent agents to cover up Jamal Khashoggi's murder' in Istanbul

Sons plea for the return of their fathers body:
Sons of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi appeal for the return of his remains

 

[Mickey Mouse]

Another dissident journalist has reportedly been tortured and killed in Saudi Arabia

Another journalist in Saudi Arabia 'is killed during torture while in custody' | Daily Mail Online

 

[petedavo.au]

Guardian Journalist makes this claim upon Twitter»
Saeed Kamali Dehghan on Twitter
I can confirm that Jamal Khashoggi was killed because of speaking to me on the phone from Istanbul in the morning on 26 September, revealing that London-based Iran International TV was funded by Mohammad Bin Salman and Saud al-Qahtani. Read this: Concern over UK-based Iranian TV channel's links to Saudi Arabia
Then apparently goes into hiding»
Saeed Kamali Dehghan on Twitter
My request to all family and friends is not to contact me at this moment, except very trusted one. My mum knows how to contact me. I trust my mum and a few people here.

 

[JudgeJudi]

Saudi authorities used acid and other chemicals to dispose of JKi's body according to a source at the Turkish attorney general's office. Traces of hydrofluoric acid and other chemicals were found in a well at Consul General Mohammed al-Otaibi's home in Istanbul.

Turkish investigators were able to take samples from the well when they were first granted access last month.

"We know that on the night of October 16 to 17, when the Turkish investigators were working inside the residence and wanted to gain full access to the garden and the well shaft, they were not given permission […] but were able to briefly take some samples from it with rods from the top of it," he said. "Those samples have been processed and they include proof that there had been hydrofluoric and other chemicals."

Other samples taken from the sewerage and drainage system around the diplomatic district also showed the use of acid.

Traces of acid, chemicals found at Saudi consul general's home

 

[petedavo.au]

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي on Twitter
Two days ago, Turkish sources revealed that Saudi Arabia dispatched a "clean up" team to Istanbul to cover up evidence of Jamal's murder. One of the members of this team were named as "chemist" Ahmed Abdulaziz Al Janoubi. Here's some #OSINT information about him. Borzou Daragahi on Twitter

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي on Twitter
On the 1st of October 2018 (one day before Jamal's murder), the Saudi forensics directorate posted about an event celebrating recent promotions within the department of forensics. They tweeted a thread with names & photos: الادلة الجنائية on Twitter

 

[petedavo.au]

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي on Twitter
"Ahmad Abdulaziz Al Janoubi" is named as one of those recent promotions. He's seen in the picture here (left) and his name is listed. He's described in Arabic as "عميد" (corresponding to a Brigadier-General). الادلة الجنائية on Twitter

İyad el-Baghdadi | إياد البغدادي on Twitter
A really juicy detail: One of the men pictured in this celebration is none other than head of forensics (and man who purportedly dismembered Jamal's body), Salah Al Tubaigi. Click through, third pic, top right, the one on the left. الادلة الجنائية on Twitter

 

[JudgeJudi]

Turkish police are ending the search for the journalist's body, but the criminal investigation into the Saudi journalist's murder will continue, sources told Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera has learned on Friday that traces of acid were found at the Saudi consul-general's residence in Istanbul, where the body was believed to be disposed of with use of chemicals.

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[JudgeJudi]

Turkey has given recordings on the killing of Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain, President Erdogan said on Saturday.

"We gave the tapes. We gave them to Saudi Arabia, to the United States, Germans, French and British, all of them. They have listened to all the conversations in them. They know".

Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates

 

[JudgeJudi]

"He's toast". "He's toxic". "He's my hero". "We love him". Opinions are clearly divided on the man they call MBS – SA’s controversial Crown Prince. Since JK’s murder, the MBS brand has become positively toxic in the West. Official Saudi denials that he himself had anything to do with the murder - in a plot hatched from right within his inner circle in the Royal Court - have been met with profound scepticism.

One theory being quietly put forward in the Gulf is that while MBS wanted "something done" about JK's outspoken criticism, he never actually sanctioned murder, and that the man who ran his office, Sa'ud al-Qahtani, exceeded his orders while telling those taking part everything had sign-off from the crown prince. The problem is that outside SA hardly anyone believes the Saudi narrative. All of which leaves MBS in the dock of global public opinion, and someone most Western governments and multinationals do not want to be associated with.

This represents a watershed moment. Do the senior princes temper this all-powerful figure by removing just enough of his powers to appease the US Congress and other Western bodies, some of which are now calling for an arms boycott? Do they "dethrone" him altogether, giving him some titular promotion to a meaningless sinecure? Or do they try to weather the storm, as they tried to do, unsuccessfully, after this story broke a month ago? In fact, right now there are extremely serious discussions going on behind closed doors in royal circles.

Even before the JK crisis, MBS's policies were becoming increasingly controversial, causing several senior Saudis to question whether he was starting to become more of a liability than an asset.

Khashoggi murder: Is Saudi crown prince finished?

 

[JudgeJudi]

The head of the Turkish-Arab Media Association to which JK belonged, called for justice to be done "so that these barbaric tyrants can never do the same thing again".

Yemeni human rights activist Tawakkol Karman, who won the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for her participation in the Arab Spring uprisings, said the killing was reminiscent of crimes committed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group.

UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is visiting SA to press Saudi leaders to cooperate with an investigation into the murder. He said, "The international community remain united in horror and outrage at the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi one month ago. It is clearly unacceptable that the full circumstances behind his murder still remain unclear".

Jamal Khashoggi case: All the latest updates

 

[dotr]

Canadian intelligence officials have heard audio of Khashoggi killing, Trudeau says | CBC News

"Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canadian intelligence officials have listened to a recording of the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Khashoggi was a vocal critic of Saudi Arabia and was last seen entering the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, where he had gone to get papers to marry his fiancée.

Trudeau is the first leader to officially confirm that his country's intelligence had listened to the audio. He said Canada's intelligence agencies had been working "very closely" with Turkish intelligence on Khashoggi's killing."

"Earlier diplomatic spat

In an unrelated diplomatic spat, Canada in August criticized the arrests of Saudi women's rights activists. In response, Saudi Arabia ordered the Canadian ambassador to leave the kingdom, froze all new business between the two countries and said it would not renew government scholarships for thousands of Saudi students in Canada."