Press TV interview with Kevin Barrett, VT Editor
A UN-led probe into Jamal Khashoggi’s murder has concluded that the Saudi dissident was the victim of a “brutal and premeditated killing” planned and perpetrated by the kingdom’s officials.
Agnes Callamard, UN special rapporteur for extrajudicial summary or arbitrary executions, said in Geneva Thursday that Saudi officials had “seriously undermined” and delayed Turkey’s efforts to investigate the crime scene at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul in October last year.
Callamard noted that they had access only to a part of “chilling and gruesome audio material” of the dissident journalist’s death, obtained by the Turkish intelligence agency.
Elsewhere in her remarks, Callamard voiced “major concerns” about the fairness of proceedings for 11 Saudis facing trial in the kingdom over the case.
The team led by Callamard arrived in Turkey earlier this week to probe Khashoggi’s killing. She held talks with Turkish foreign and justice ministers and the prosecutor in the case.
Callamard was barred from the Saudi consulate where she had requested to visit as part of the investigation. Her findings and recommendations are expected to be reported to the UN Human Rights Council at a June 2019 session.
An adviser to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently said the UN investigative team believed Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was the prime suspect in the assassination.
“The UN team considers the crown prince of Saudi Arabia the main person responsible for the killing of Khashoggi,” Turkish presidential adviser Yasin Aktay told the Turkish NTV broadcaster on Sunday.
“The team held a number of meetings in Turkey, including with Khashoggi’s fiancé, and she (Callamard) also intends to listen to the audio recordings related to the crime.”
A UN investigative team believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is the main suspect in Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, an adviser to Turkish President Erdogan says.
Turkey, which said it was in possession of audio evidence of Khashoggi’s murder soon after he failed to exit the consulate, has indirectly suggested that bin Salman ordered his killing.
The Washington Post, for which Khashoggi was a columnist, reported in November last year that the CIA had also concluded that bin Salman ordered the killing.
After weeks of outright denial, the Riyadh regime eventually acknowledged the murder but has attempted to shift the blame to bin Salman’s underlings and away from the crown prince himself.
Khashoggi was killed and his body was dismembered by a Saudi hit squad inside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate on October 2, 2018.
Ankara has demanded that Riyadh extradite suspects in the case to stand trial in Turkey but Saudi Arabia has refused to do so. Riyadh has not yet produced Khashoggi’s body either.
Erdogan has recently said that US silence toward the killing is not acceptable and that Ankara wants everything to be clarified about the case.
The Turkish president has slammed the US for keeping silent over the Saudi killing of its own dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“I cannot understand America’s silence… We want everything to be clarified because there is an atrocity, there is a murder,” Erdogan told an interview with state-run TRT television on Sunday. “The Khashoggi murder is not an ordinary one.”
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror.
He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard-driving weekly radio show funded by listener subscriptions at Substack and the weekly news roundup FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN).
He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
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It’s no hoax, Khashoggi is dead,any source that claims otherwise is almost certainly doing so because they are controlled by the people behind the killing, i.e. Trump and his Judeo-Zionist controllers.
LOL – Anybody expect real truth or justice ? Not going to happen as there is no real moral compass only the perception of one. Fraudi’s work w/ CIA/US/UK MI5-6/France/Germany/NATO etc at EVERY level b/c it’s already fused & integrated. Yemen/PNAC/Greater IsraHell Project/NATO et alia. Dog & pony show circus politics. UN is a Lapdog of BIS/City of London/IMF all interconnected & already set up long ago into the system. Control the Sea you control the fish.
The U.S. and all other countries of the world must boycott this despicable country until they seek to return from the dark ages. Stop buying anything from them, stop selling arms to them.
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