Iran Press/Middle East: "We'll be having a very full report over the next two days, probably Monday or Tuesday," Donald Trump said.
Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered inside Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 after he went to obtain his marriage documents, but never come back and the place of his remains are still unknown.
Turkish and Saudi authorities say Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, but they disagree on how he was killed, and who ordered the killing, AL JAZEERA reported.
The CIA has concluded that the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered silencing of Khashoggi. Now while it's likely that the Mohammad Bin Salman was involved in the Khashoggi's killing, the main questions are about the role of Saudi Crown Prince.
Main questions are about the role of Saudi Crown Prince in Journalist Killing
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Earlier this month, Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Irfan Fidan said the ill-fated journalist had been strangled upon his arrival in the consulate, and then his body was dismembered and destroyed.
Saudi Arabia repeatedly changed its story of Khashoggi killing, first denying any knowledge of the journalist's fate and possible murder but later forced to announced that he was killed when an argument turned into a fistfight.
However, as diplomatic pressure grew tremendously on Riyadh to give a credible account of the mysterious fate of its national, in an unexpected statement last month, Saudi Attorney General Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb admitted that Khashoggi had been killed in a “premeditated” attack in the consulate.
Shaalan al-Shaalan, the kingdom's deputy public prosecutor, told at a news conference in Riyadh that a 15-member squad was formed to bring Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia from Istanbul "by means of persuasion", but that five men ordered the killing and dismemberment of Khashoggi after "talks with him failed" inside the consulate.
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Saudi deputy Public Prosecutor added that Mohammed bin Salman was not implicated in the gruesome murder, while Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, repeatedly announced that orders to kill Khashoggi had come from “the highest levels of the Saudi government.”
The murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who was critical of Mohammed bin Salman, triggered an international uproar that has frayed the decades-long relationship between Washington and Riyadh.
Intelligence officials have been providing information to Trump about the death for weeks and he was briefed again by phone on Saturday by CIA Director Gina Haspel and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as he flew to California.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on CIA report on Khashoggi Killing said: the president has confidence in the CIA.
Members of the US Congress specialy democrates are pushing Trump for a tougher response to the killing. The administration last week imposed economic sanctions on 17 Saudi officials for their alleged role in the killing.
In the first days after Saudis get troubled by Khashoggi crisis, Donald Trump the US president tried to shield and protect Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by saying he thought that Saudi claims that Jamal Khashoggi had died in a "fistfight" were credible.
But later in a forceful change of policy, Trump frustrated by the ever-changing story from Riyadh, was forced to call the murder as "one of the worst in the history of cover ups" and "a total fiasco". 205/102
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