{"id":179874,"date":"2018-12-02T07:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T07:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179874"},"modified":"2018-12-04T07:12:55","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T07:12:55","slug":"evidence-mounts-against-mbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=179874","title":{"rendered":"Evidence Mounts Against MBS"},"content":{"rendered":"

CIA found that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ‘sent 11 messages to advisor who oversaw Jamal Khashoggi murder squad in the hours surrounding the journalist’s death’<\/h2>\n

Tim Stickings \u2013 Mail Online and Reuters Nov 1, 2018<\/h1>\n
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Saudi Arabia<\/strong><\/a><\/span>‘s Crown Prince sent 11 messages to an aide overseeing the Jamal Khashoggi hit squad in the hours surrounding the journalist’s murder, it is claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mohammed bin Salman was allegedly in touch with Saud al-Qahtani immediately before and after Khashoggi went missing in Istanbul on October 2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Qahtani is believed to have supervised the 15-man murder squad and was in touch with them at the same time as he was communicating with the prince, according to a CIA assessment reported by the Wall Street Journ<\/span>al<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has repeatedly denied that Prince Mohammed knew about the murder or played any part in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The report claims that the prince sent at least 11 electronic messages to his adviser, although the CIA does not know what they said.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is also alleged that Prince Mohammed had spoken in August 2017 of ‘making arrangements’ to lure him to a foreign country if he could not be returned to Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CIA assessment reportedly said that the discussion ‘seems to foreshadow the Saudi operation launched against Khashoggi’<\/span><\/p>\n

Qahtani has since been sacked but his influence in the kingdom has led many to believe he could not have overseen the operation without the prince’s knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of Riyadh, was killed and his body dismembered by a team of 15 Saudi agents on October 2.<\/span><\/p>\n

The killing\u00a0has strained Saudi Arabia’s ties with the West and battered Prince Mohammed’s image abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n

Turkey has said the hit was ordered at the highest levels of Saudi leadership, and the CIA assessed the prince was directly behind it, despite vehement Saudi denials.<\/span><\/p>\n

Washington has imposed economic sanctions on 17 Saudi officials, including Qahtani, the prince’s senior aide.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Donald Trump has largely\u00a0stood by the crown prince,\u00a0defying intense pressure from lawmakers to impose broader sanctions on Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Prince Mohammed is today at the G20 summit in Buenos Aires as the controversy over Khashoggi’s killing continues to dominate the West’s relations with Saudi Arabia.<\/span><\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch has asked Argentine prosecutors to investigate him for human rights abuses.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir are said to have ‘discussed the importance of making progress’ in the investigation into Khashoggi’s killing during talks.<\/span><\/p>\n

British PM Theresa May told the prince that the killers of Khashoggi should be held to account, her office said after the two leaders met.<\/span><\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron told the prince in a separate meeting that Europeans will insist on international experts being part of the investigation into Khashoggi’s killing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Western nations are also calling for an end to the Saudi-led military campaign in neighbouring Yemen, which was launched by Prince Mohammed, as a humanitarian crisis there worsens.<\/span><\/p>\n

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