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The US government no longer expects the missing journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, to be alive. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is feeling indignation from Western societies and other politicians.
US President Donald Trump speaks to the press about the Khashoggi affair before he leaves for an election. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)
US President Donald Trump believes the critic of the Saudi regime Jamal Khashoggi is dead. Intelligence sources from several sources said that Khashoggi was assassinated by a Saudi high command. Trump told New York Times reporters Thursday. The allegations in recent days that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman allegedly ordered the assassination of Khashoggi called into question the US alliance with Saudi Arabia, Trump said. The case represents one of the biggest foreign policy crises of its mandate.
Khashoggi has given no sign of life since his visit to the Istanbul consulate on October 2nd. The Saudi royal family remains silent about allegations that it killed the famous critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But the pressure on MBS, as it is called in Saudi Arabia, is increasing.
Horrific details published
During his visit to Riyadh, he said that Washington was taking the case "very seriously," Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo said Thursday. According to American media reports, the Americans gave the court three days to clarify matters. In response to serious allegations, many representatives of Western governments and businesses have canceled their participation in Davos in the Desert, an investor conference scheduled for next week. The long list of refusals in Riyadh was joined Thursday by US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his British, French and Dutch counterparts. The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, was also canceled.
As little as Riyadh, Ankara officially commented on the allegations of murder. Nevertheless, government officials and investigators almost daily feed the media with other, sometimes horrendous, details that place the crown prince at the center of suspicion. The pro-government newspaper "Sabah" on Thursday released footage of surveillance cameras to show the alleged leader of the "killer commando" of 15 members.
The suspected brain unmasked
The images of a man in dark suit, seen at the consulate of the consulate, at the consulate residence, leaving a hotel and atatürk airport for a period of eight hours are assumed to be Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb . Mutreb was first secretary at the embassy in London ten years ago. After researching the New York Times, he accompanied the Crown Prince this year on numerous overseas trips.
Another government sheet, "Yeni Safak," reported on Wednesday that sound recordings show Saudi agents torturing Khashoggi, cutting off his fingers and then decapitating him. The report was picked up in the Western media, including the New York Times, although the government did not submit any evidence of the existence of the alleged recordings. US President Donald Trump has asked Ankara for registration. According to "Yeni Safak", Turkish investigators certainly do not think about making them available to Americans.
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