In 2017 Saudi Crown Prince Told Top Aide He Would Use ‘A Bullet’ On Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pictured while meeting with the Tunisian President at the presidential palace in Carthage on the eastern outskirts of the capital Tunis on November 27, 2018. (Photo ... Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pictured while meeting with the Tunisian President at the presidential palace in Carthage on the eastern outskirts of the capital Tunis on November 27, 2018. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP) (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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In 2017, Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman told a top aide that he would use “a bullet” on journalist Jamal Khashoggi if the Washington Post columnist didn’t halt his dissident writing against the kingdom and return to Saudi Arabia, The New York Times reported Thursday evening.

According to current and former officials with knowledge of the intelligence reports who spoke to the Times, the conversation between Bin Salman and aide Turki Aldakhil was collected by U.S. intelligence and is considered to be among the most damning evidence against the crown prince and his denials of knowledge of Khashoggi’s murder. In October, Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. As details of the murder surfaced, global outrage against the crown prince — seen as the de facto leader of the kingdom — ensued.

During the September 2017 conversation, Bin Salman reportedly discussed ways to coax Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia or how to bring him back forcefully. Bin Salman suggested the “bullet” method as Plan C. According to the Times, the conversation is seen as evidence that Bin Salman may have premeditated ways to silence Khashoggi.

Bin Salman has denied involvement or knowledge of the incident and the kingdom has punished those responsible for carrying out the murder, despite reports that suggest the attackers would not have acted alone. Ignoring calls from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, President Trump has remained in Saudi Arabia’s corner, primarily due to a hefty economic deal between the two countries.

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  1. Amazing how this just kind of came and went. Pretty astounding really.

  2. He’s SO progressive tho.

  3. The discussion of the bullet by Crown Prince and his inclusion of the kingdom’s coroner and butcher on the Jamal Khashoggi assassination mission team both demonstrate that Crown Prince Mo Bone Saw is really serious about reform. Wahabbi sunni Sharia law and Saudi tribal tradition requires a beheading sword to kill political enemies. That is why Mo’s minions had Washington Post reporter tortured to death, then sliced and diced by the Crown Prince’s personal coroner.

    Soon the Prince will have the beheading sword on Saudi flag replaced by a machine gun in the interests of modernizing his tribal kingdom.

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