Saudi Crown Prince Sent Eleven Messages To Murderers: Report

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https://www.newsweek.com/cia-finds-saudi-crown-prince-sent-messages-khashoggi-murder-team-report-1239991?amp=1

CIA INTERCEPTS SHOW SAUDI CROWN PRINCE SENT 11 MESSAGES TO TEAM THAT MURDERED JAMAL KHASHOGGI: REPORT

By Alexandra Hutzler On Saturd

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman communicated over 11 times with the team that was responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the hours before and after his death, according to a classified Central Intelligence Agency assessment obtained by the Wall Street Journal.

The crown prince’s electronic messages were sent to Saud al-Qahtani, according to the CIA. Qahtani is the man who supervised the 15-person team that was responsible for killing Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia’s leadership, on October 2. Qahtani served as the royal court adviser but fired shortly after Khashoggi’s death.

The content of the messages between the crown price and Qahtani are unknown, according to the CIA assessment, which was previously unreported until the Journal’s article was published on Saturday morning.

But the intelligence agency has “medium-to-high” confidence that Prince Mohammed “personally targeted” the journalists and “probably ordered his death.” Though the CIA did clarify that it lacks “direct reporting of the Crown Prince issuing a kill order.”

The assessment also details communication between the crown prince and his associates in August 2017 about how to trap Khashoggi. Prince Mohammed reportedly said that if Khashoggi couldn’t be convinced to come to Saudi Arabia then “we could possibly lure him outside Saudi Arabia and make arrangements.” Khashoggi was killed in a Saudi consulate in Istanbul, which he entered to get the necessary paperwork to marry his Turkish fiancée.

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