An audio recording tracking the dying moments of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has been shared with Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany in addition to the United States, the leader of Turkey said Saturday.
“We gave it to Saudi Arabia,” President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the Ankara airport before departing for Paris for commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. “We gave it to America. To the Germans, French, English, we gave it to all of them.”
It was the first time that Erdogan has publicly acknowledged the existence of an audio recording that Turkish officials say backs the assertion that Khashoggi, a contributor to The Washington Post World Opinions section, was killed by a 15-member Saudi hit team after he entered the consulate on Oct. 2.
Wider access to the recording could increase pressure on the Trump administration to take stronger measures against Saudi Arabia in response to Khashoggi’s killing.
Anonymous wrote:Turkey will not let it rest either. Hopefully the Post will keep pushing too. Especially now that Trump is revoking press credentials and starting down a slippery slope re freedom of the press.
Anonymous wrote:"Please Don't Forget Khashoggi"
Washington Post today
The elections are over. Time to have Trump Acknowledge MSB behind this atrocity and sanction the heck out of Saudi Arabia. Turkey is releasing more info. Bring back our values. Congress needs to act on this before end if 2018.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:See posters such as you? Really unkind to strangle someone the minute they walk through the embassy doors to pick up a marriage license. I call that assasination. And than to continually try to blacken his name, character assassination.
Yeah, but he’s betting that you’re a typical numbskull who will be swayed by what he says . A good half of this country is currently stupid enough to be similarly brainwashed. Keep up the good fight.
I didn't say anything - I posted a link to actual footage of Khashoggi praising the war in Yemen and claiming the Saudi-led war is saving people of Yemen from a "dictatorship" and a "sectarian regime." He did say that you know.
And this is the point. Kh was on the " inside" for most of his life, until the recent power shakeup. If you have always disagreed with a lot of what SA does, then he's no hero himself. Complicating that - he seems to have thrown a lot of support to republican Islamist movements like Islamic brotherhood, that would use democracy mechanisms to consolidate power for a retrograde state. Last, Mbs's motives are economic and power related , but he has been making small " reforms". That's better than no reforms, or a chaotic revolution that would send them even further into the past as those coming to power wouldn't necessarily be "reformers" themselves. This heinous act can be judged on its own merits as totally unacceptable, and world community should demand a full investigation and repercussions - as it is doing. But I have a hard time seeing this in black and white with relationship to the players. The act itself was "bad" and that is enough to condemn it.
Anonymous wrote:Thank you WP for keeping the story alive. Justice for Jamal!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:See posters such as you? Really unkind to strangle someone the minute they walk through the embassy doors to pick up a marriage license. I call that assasination. And than to continually try to blacken his name, character assassination.
Yeah, but he’s betting that you’re a typical numbskull who will be swayed by what he says . A good half of this country is currently stupid enough to be similarly brainwashed. Keep up the good fight.
I didn't say anything - I posted a link to actual footage of Khashoggi praising the war in Yemen and claiming the Saudi-led war is saving people of Yemen from a "dictatorship" and a "sectarian regime." He did say that you know.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:See posters such as you? Really unkind to strangle someone the minute they walk through the embassy doors to pick up a marriage license. I call that assasination. And than to continually try to blacken his name, character assassination.
Yeah, but he’s betting that you’re a typical numbskull who will be swayed by what he says . A good half of this country is currently stupid enough to be similarly brainwashed. Keep up the good fight.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Kashoggi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Lie down with dogs, get chopped up by fleas.
It wasn't the Ikhwan that chopped him up, you moron, it was the Al-Saud, who financed the DEATH of Ikhwan in other countries. Moron.