Journalist Planned Killing

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Jamal bin Ahmad Khashoggi 1958-2018 (Saudi Arabian Journalist)

Robert Gonzales, Writer

Jamal bin Ahmad Khashoggi, was a Saudi Arabian journalist, author and a former general manager and editor-in-chief of Al-Arab News Channel.

Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on October 2 in order to obtain documents related to his planned marriage. As no CCTV recorded him exiting the consulate, he was declared a missing person amid news reports claiming that he had been dismembered alive inside the consulate. Many speculate that Khashoggi’s death was not just an unfortunate “accident”, but was in fact planned.

The killing of Jamal Khashoggi was supposedly “a violently planned” murder that was subsequently covered up, the spokesman for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK party said Monday, October 22

Omer Celik, spokesman for the AK party, told reporters at the party’s headquarters in Ankara; Turkey’s cosmopolitan capital; that the perpetrators should be brought to justice, according to Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu.

Omer Celik, proclaimed, “Jamal Khashoggi’s killing is a violently planned and a very complicated murder, which was being covered up.”

Celik also said, “I hope those responsible for Khashoggi’s killing are punished and no one ever thinks of repeating this.”

Recep Tayyip Erdogan just recently made an announcement on the murder case of Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday and “nothing about this event will remain hidden,” his spokesman, Ibrahim Kalin, told reporters.

“The line our President put since the beginning of this case is very clear,” Kalin said. “The investigation will continue until the end.”

Further into the investigation, CIA Director Gina Haspel, traveled to Turkey to address the matter into Khashoggi’s death, according to a source familiar with her plans.

Khashoggi was last seen on October 2, when he walked into the Saudi consulate to obtain paperwork to marry his fiancee, Hatice Cengiz.

Surveillance footage shows Jamal Khashoggi (left) as he enters the Saudi consulate. A senior Turkish official told CNN the man on the right, Mustafa Al-Madani, dressed up in Khashoggi’s clothes after his death.

After weeks of denying any knowledge of Khashoggi’s whereabouts, the Saudi government admitted that he had died in the diplomatic compound. The official line is that he was accidentally killed when a discussion with officials turned into a brawl.

Meanwhile, the UK government is under pressure from some British lawmakers to halt its arms sales to Saudi Arabia as a result of the matter.

The country’s Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt says that Saudi Arabia’s “claim that Mr.Khashoggi died in a fight does not amount to a credible explanation” and despite the UK’s “important strategic partnership” with Saudi Arabia, he is willing to act once the final details are known.

“If the appalling stories we are reading turn out to be true, they are fundamentally incompatible with our values. We will act accordingly,” he said in Parliament on Monday.”

“Actions Britain and our allies take will depend on two things. Firstly, the credibility of the explanation given by Saudi Arabia, and secondly on our confidence that such an appalling episode cannot and will not be repeated.”

After weeks of speculation surrounding the journalist’s death, forensic investigators have reportedly discovered his body parts in the garden of the Saudi consul general’s home, about 500 meters from the consulate.