Comment: Fall guys face death for Khashoggi atrocity while the West turns blind eye to Crown Prince
The public prosecutor of Saudi Arabia has announced that justice has been done. Five people have been sentenced to death for the murder of exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by a team of Saudi agents in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. Unfortunately, he didn’t say who they were.
A Turkish police officer walks past a picture of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi before a ceremony, near the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul, marking the one-year anniversary of his death.We do know the names of the condemned five already, however, because the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the case, Agnes Callamard, has published them. All of them are quite junior members of the hit team that murdered Khashoggi, or junior members of the mission control team back in Riyadh.
The Turkish intelligence services had bugged Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul . Their recordings of the conversation among the Saudi killers before Khashoggi arrived – to pick up a document certifying that he was divorced, so he could marry his Turkish fiancee – make it clear that their intention was murder.
So they killed him , cut his body up with implements that included a saw for the bones , and handed the bagged bits over to a local Turkish accomplice, who dumped them in a still undiscovered place. Then the hit team flew home again, after a job well done.Everybody knows that MbS ordered the hit. It fits his modus operandi, which features hasty and foolish decisions that he then has plenty of time to regret at leisure as they go wrong.
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