{"id":177951,"date":"2018-10-20T04:41:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T04:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177951"},"modified":"2018-10-23T04:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T04:17:00","slug":"saudi-arabia-admits-khashoggi-murdered-in-turkey-sacks-bin-salmans-top-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=177951","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi murdered in Turkey, sacks bin Salman\u2019s top aide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press TV — Oct 20, 2018<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\"Evidence<\/a>

Journalist Jamal Khashoggi who disappeared while visiting the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Saudi Arabia has sacked a top general and arrested several people after confessing that dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the Turkish city of Istanbul.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In a Friday announcement, Saudi Arabia said\u00a0that the preliminary results of its investigation indicate Khashoggi had\u00a0been killed in a “fight with people who met him in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Saudi state TV, the Kingdom has relieved Ahmad al-Assiri, a top general and close aide to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, from his duties in the General Intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saudi King Salman has also ordered the formation of a ministerial committee with the Saudi crown prince as head to restructure the General Intelligence Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n

Reuters quoted a\u00a0person familiar with the Saudi investigation of Khashoggi\u2019s death as saying that\u00a0no orders had been issued to kill or kidnap him, but there is standing order from the General Intelligence Presidency to bring critics back to the kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n

The source said orders were “aggressively interpreted” and subsequent instructions were “more and more unspecific” resulting in death and attempt to “cover it”.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also noted that the Saudi consulate driver was among those who handed over the body of the dissident journalist to a “local cooperator”; however, it is not clear what has happened to the body.<\/span><\/p>\n

The person familiar with the investigation also claimed bin Salman “had no knowledge of this specific operation”.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘Faithful servant’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In addition to al-Assiri, Saudi Arabia also dismissed four other senior officials, including Saud al-Qahtani, a top adviser to the royal court.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shortly after news of his arrest, users on Twitter found and reposted a 2017 tweet by al-Qahtani, in which he said, “You think I’m acting on my own? I’m just an employee and a\u00a0faithful servant to my King and his royal highness the crown prince.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/saudq1978\/status\/898273541367451648<\/p>\n

US \u2018saddened\u2019 by news of Khashoggi\u2019s death<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Meanwhile, the White House has acknowledged the Saudi announcement, saying the US is “saddened”\u00a0by the confirmation of the journalist\u2019s death.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also said Washington\u00a0will be closely following the international probe into the incident and will advocate for justice that is timely, transparent, and in accordance with all due process.<\/span><\/p>\n

UN chief ‘deeply troubled’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also reacted to the Saudi announcement, saying he was “deeply troubled”\u00a0by the confirmation of Khashoggi\u2019s death, a UN spokesman said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The spokesman also said Guterres \u201cstresses the need for prompt, thorough, transparent investigation\u201d into circumstances, and full accountability for those responsible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Saudi state TV, a top general and close aide to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been relieved from his duties over Khashoggi’s death<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177955,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177951\/revisions\/177955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}