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| Transcript new tape revealed the final minutes of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi 59 year-old, killed and dismembered inside Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2nd, 2018 by a 15-member Hit Squad directed by top rulers of Saudi Arabia. |
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| People hold banners of Jamal Khashoggi during a symbolic funeral prayer for the Saudi journalist at the courtyard of Fatih mosque in Istanbul - AFP |
VietPress USA (Nov. 20, 2018): Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi (born on 3 October 1958 – Murdered on 2 October 2018) was a Saudi Arabian journalist, dissident, author, and a former general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel who was assassinated at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi Government when he want there to obtain documents related to his planned marriage with a Turkish lady.
Khashoggi fled Saudi Arabia in September 2017 and went into self-imposed exile. He said that the Saudi Arabian government had "banned him from Twitter", and he later wrote newspaper articles critical of the Saudi government. Khashoggi had been sharply critical of Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, and the country's king, Salman of Saudi Arabia. He also opposed the Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.
Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018, but did not leave the building. nitially the Saudi Arabian government denied the death, claiming Khashoggi had left the consulate alive, but Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan declared that Turkey has evidences that Khashoggi killed and dismembered inside Saudi Arabian consulte in Istanbul. The first tape recorded from this assassination of Jamal Khashoggie sent to some top Countries' leaders, including UN and USA.
An inspection of Saudi Arabian consulate, by Saudi Arabian and Turkish officials, took place on 15 October. On 20 October Saudi Arabia said that Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, claiming he had been strangled to death after a fight had broken out.
This was later contradicted when, on 25 October, Saudi Arabia's attorney general stated that the murder was premeditated.
On 16 November 2018, the Washington Post and other news media reported that the CIA had concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered Khashoggi's assassination.
Today on 20 November 2018, this conclusion was disputed without any evidence by US President Donald Trump, who stated that the investigation had to continue and that his administration will stand with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
To show the evidence, a second tape recorded the final minutes of murdering journalist Jamal Khashoggi leaked to some World's leaders and Media outlets.
The 11-minute audio, the contents of which are revealed for the first time, was released on Monday evening by Turkish news website Haberturk that heard the killers call him a “traitor”.
It is suspected that Mr Khashoggi was strangled before he was dismembered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2.
Jamal Khashoggi is heard shouting at his killers to release his arm in a chilling audio recording of his brutal murders of "15-member hit squad" that: "Release my arm! What do you think you are doing?"
Turkey Government said it has shared an audio recording of the murder with countries including the UK, US, France, Germany and Canada.
The Turkish newspaper Haberturk has published claims that Mr Khashoggi was immediately grabbed by four men from the 15-member hit squad as soon as he entered the building.
The recording includes sounds of a physical fight, a beating and torture, Haberturk reported.
Later, one of the killers allegedly says: "It is spooky to wear the clothes of a man whom we killed 20 minutes ago."
He complains that Mr Khashoggi's black leather shoes are too small for his feet, and he is told to wear his own trainers.
It is claimed that Mustafa al-Madani put on the dead journalist's clothes and impersonated him in the street in an attempt to make it look like Mr Khashoggi left the consulate alive.
CCTV footage shows him walking along a pavement after the murder. In the video, he is wearing black and white trainers.
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Jamal Khashoggi's final moments caught on leaked tape recording
Josie Ensor
A transcript of a tape recording of murdered Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s final minutes has been leaked, in which one of the alleged killers is heard calling him a “traitor”.
The 11-minute audio, the contents of which are revealed for the first time, was released on Monday evening by Turkish news website Haberturk.
"Let my hand go. Who do you think you are? Why are you doing this?" the report quotes Khashoggi as saying, as several members of an alleged 15-man “hit squad” accost him as soon as he enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct 2.
"You traitor! Your day of judgment has come!" a man alleged to be Maher Mutreb, the suspected oordinator of the mission who worked for some time in the kingdom’s embassy in London, is quoted as replying to the Washington Post columnist.
Khashoggi and four members of the squad are heard quarrelling for at least seven minutes before the audio goes quiet.
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The report adds that a later recording captures another “hitman”, Mustafa al-Madani, who was used as a body double to Khashoggi, saying: "It's really creepy that I am wearing the clothes of someone who was killed minutes ago."
He is also reportedly heard saying that Khashoggi's shoes are too tight for his feet. In CCTV video footage taken from the back entrance of the consulate Madani is seen several hours after the murder wearing Khashoggi’s clothes but with his own trainers.
The tapes have been leaked by the Turkish government to a number of local media outlets, however none have published the reportedly gruesome audio.
Devlet Bahceli, a politician in Turkey’s main nationalist party, warned on Tuesday that “the circle is tightening” around Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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They have been played to a number of Saudi’s allies, including the US and the UK. Gina Haspel, CIA Director, has listened to them, but President Donald Trump revealed on Sunday that he did not want to listen to them himself.
"It was very violent, very vicious and terrible," he said.
Over the weekend, the US president called reports that Prince Mohammed ordered the killing "premature." He said that it was "possible" and that it was also possible that people will never know the truth.
Mr Trump faces increasing pressure to take tougher measures against Riyadh, amid a growing consensus that the crown prince, who has unchallenged power in the ultraconservative kingdom, must have known about the operation.
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