Saudi Arabia changes its story again and says Jamal Khashoggi was killed in 'premeditated' murder

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Saudi Arabia changed its explanation of Jamal Khashoggi’s death once again on Thursday, saying that the journalist’s murder was “premeditated” by Saudi operatives.

The kingdom initially claimed that Mr Khashoggi walked out of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul unharmed on October 2, then later said that he was killed accidentally in a “fist fight” with a 15-man team of Saudi agents.

Saudi Arabia said Thursday it had received new information from Turkish investigators which showed that “the suspects in the incident had committed their act with a premeditated intention”.

In all three versions of the explanation, authorities insisted that Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, was not responsible for the Washington Post columnist’s death.

The Saudi announcement came hours after it emerged that Gina Haspel, the CIA director, had listened to a Turkish audio tape which allegedly shows that Mr Khashoggi was tortured before being killed.

Turkish officials have long said that the tape disproves Saudi claims that the agents did not mean to kill Mr Khashoggi. Turkey has not made the tape public and the CIA did not officially confirm that Ms Haspel had heard it.

sharrrp on October 25th, 2018 at 14:57 UTC »

The world: "Saudi Arabia, did you brutally murder a journalist in cold blood for talking shit?"

Saudi Arabia: "No! No no no no no no no. Well yes. A bit."

TeeeHaus on October 25th, 2018 at 13:10 UTC »

Loving the goalpost moving.

Though I dispise Erdogan, for once I enjoy the show he puts on by releasing the information a piece at a time. He forces Saudies to admit one thing at a time, keeping attention on the subject high and completly destroying their credibility. I hope he can destroy it far enough, so that western goverments cannot just go back to business as usual. Only downside is that it means my gasoline is getting more expensive, but hey - I like to pay for that.

iamnotbillyjoel on October 25th, 2018 at 11:49 UTC »

well i guess the prince will be stepping down, as he will obviously be taking responsibility.