WaPo: Turkish Officials Have Audio, Video They Say Proves Saudis Killed Journalist

ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 12: Consulate officers are seen at the entrance of Saudi consulate as the waiting continues on the disappearance of Prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Consulate General of Sa... ISTANBUL, TURKEY - OCTOBER 12: Consulate officers are seen at the entrance of Saudi consulate as the waiting continues on the disappearance of Prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Consulate General of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul, Turkey on October 12, 2018. Khashoggi, a journalist and columnist for The Washington Post, has been missing since he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. (Photo by Elif Ozturk/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Turkish government officials told The Washington Post on Thursday that it has video and audio evidence that they say proves Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi Arabian Consulate in Turkey just days ago.

The Turkish government has informed the U.S. of its evidence and has described the contents of recordings to its American peers, according to the officials who spoke to the Post. The video shows that Khashoggi was detained by Saudi officials when he entered the building and the audio recordings reportedly provide gruesome proof of the journalist’s alleged torture and murder.

“You can hear his voice and the voices of men speaking Arabic,” a person with knowledge of the recording told the Post. “You can hear how he was interrogated, tortured and then murdered.”

The Saudi government has denied any involvement in Khashoggi’s disappearance and maintains the journalist left the consulate shortly after entering.

Trump has claimed that he wants to get to the bottom of the columnist’s disappearance, but has stopped short of threatening to pull out of the U.S.-Saudi arms agreement, which could rake in hundreds of billions of dollars for the U.S., he said Thursday.

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  1. A sinking feeling inside me is saying that, even with evidence, the POTUS (and, by extension, the US) will let this slide.

  2. And why not? After all, we let North Korea’s extrajudicial killings slide, and they don’t spend a dime on our weapons systems. Besides, Trump has already announced to the world that it’s all right. He was a journalist and hence an “enemy of the people”. Still, it’s a bit of hubris to whack him in a consulate in another country. Why can’t they be like Russia and just gun them down on the streets or in their apartment buildings? I guess there was no way the Saudis could lure Khashoggi home so he could be a victim of road rage.

  3. Congratulations, America. We are now a rogue nation.

  4. of course he will, this prince is his good buddy and single handedly bailing out Trump Hotel in NYC. Trump has already shown he doesn’t care by saying the Reporter wasn’t a US Citizen

  5. Avatar for paulw paulw says:

    All those nonexistent arms deals, they typically have offsets where the US promises to buy additional stuff from the country in question. So the net result on the US economy is even smaller than the numbers after you peel back the first couple levels of lies.

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