If you thought the Khashoggi story was already crazy, it somehow just got crazier.

[underpants]

Turkey: Khashoggi’s dismembered body possibly carried through Istanbul’s airport

HALIFAX — Turkey’s Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said Saturday that the team sent to kill Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi may have carried his dismembered body parts through Istanbul’s international airport.

At the Halifax International Security Forum, an annual gathering of leading defense officials from around the world, Akar said it was “possible” that 18 men — not 15, as originally assumed — carried out the operation. They could get away with smuggling parts of the Washington Post columnist’s body through the airport because as diplomats they wouldn’t be searched by security, the minister noted.

https://www.vox.com/world/2018/11/17/18100179/jamal-khashoggi-murder-saudi-arabia-dismember-airport

[marylandblue]

1. That's what I assumed already, why else would they chop him up?

[Liberty Belle]

2. To get him out of the consulate unseen.

But hard to believe they'd take parts through airports with scanners; they could simply have dumped parts in trash or buried them.

[marylandblue]

5. They could have snuck the body out in a van or car trunk

But chopping up only makes for airports. If you put something in a diplomatic package, I think it does not get scanned.

[Nitram]

8. No scans for people with diplomatic immunity...

[lostnfound]

26. Stupid rule needs to be changed

This is like a damn horror movie

[alfredo]

38. A lot of drugs came in by diplomatic pouch.

[FakeNoose]

19. I hope that law gets changed REAL SOON!

[Texin]

33. And it doesn't take 18 people to murder and dismember a body. Makes sense they'd leave no evidence.

[brooklynite]

3. Hand carry luggage is ALWAYS more convenient...

[exboyfil]

4. Especially if it includes hands?

[DontBooVote]

18. Wah-wah-waaaahhh. But, seriously....

I LOL'ed.

[getagrip_already]

20. chances are...

They only had the tender bits like his head that would verify his death. There is some precedent for heads on a platter.

[jberryhill]

6. They took them on the plane as carrion items

[Nitram]

9. LOL!!!

[jberryhill]

11. I always wonder if people are traveling with their pet vulture...

...whenever the flight attendant ask passengers to secure all carrion items under their seat or in the overhead bins.

[COLGATE4]

35. Under their seats. It's too hard for the

vultures to open the overhead bins. (And too messy for the passengers seated directly below the bins if they manage to open them)

[packman]

13. Oh, that's bad

[underpants]

14. You funny

[Dave Starsky]

17. ...

[trusty elf]

22. good one!

[Funtatlaguy]

7. No, it's a bowling ball 🎳 it just looks like a severed head

[robbob]

12. Why can't it be both?

[HuskyOffset]

34. Look at that shit

See, I knew liberals were violent psychos.

/s (of course)

[empedocles]

10. Turks keeping the pressure up on traitortrump and King Sawed

[colorado_ufo]

24. King Sawed - for the win!

Yes, it's very dark humor, but sometimes the mind rebels after so much terrible news.

[Duppers]

29. That's literally an LOL!

Hubs wants to know what I'm cackling about.

[Nitram]

16. So what was all the speculation about them using acid to dissolve the body parts?

[getagrip_already]

21. it's possible they did both.....

The torso was too big, and arms and legs don't add anything. Head, hands, other tender bits are the trophy to take home., Everything else got the breaking bad long soak.

[sarah FAILIN]

25. They had a bone saw

That torso could have been carved up like last night's pizza and put in 15 zip lock bags. Drain the liquid outand good to go.

[getagrip_already]

28. Ever dress out a deer?

It's a lot of gore once you gut it. Gallons of gooey organs. It would just be easier to keep the trophy pieces and get "rid" of the rest.

Not saying you are wrong. Just a LOT of work, and a lot of "stuff", to package in waterproof refrigerated coolers and transport. And to what end?

Heck, even some trophy hunters will take the head and leave the rest on the ground. Illegal as hell, but they don't care, they just want the head for the wall.

Just a thunk.

[sarah FAILIN]

37. We butchered our own meat

Pigs mostly. Many fall days as a teen I spent carving up the family meat for the year. Drain the liquids and there isn't nearly as much.

[Nitram]

36. I ws wondering if the dismemberment and acid were meant to make the body unidentifiable once it

was disposed of.

[saidsimplesimon]

23. Osama bin Laden's family

had close ties to Saudi royalty. He received support and funding from sources in Saudi Arabia. They are not our friends. imo

[sarah FAILIN]

27. The video shows them arrive with no luggage

But going home they were dragging heavy baggage behind them. When I first saw that I knew what happened.

[Hotler]

30. I'm thinking they cut him up alive.

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To send a message. If they just wanted him dead they could of done a simple drive by and shot him on the street.

[Grasswire2]

32. I think so too.

The alleged screaming on the tape. Even Trump describes it as a "suffering" audio.

[GulfCoast66]

31. I have no doubt the brought his head to the prince

It’s what these fuckers do.

We should have nothing to do with that 7th century theocracy.