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10-29-18 a government source told MEE on Monday that the murder/torture tape would never officially be made public because the recording was obtained through "intelligence work" and could therefore not be used as legal evidence. Diplomatic missions such as the Saudi consulate in Istanbul are protected under the Vienna Convention, meaning Turkish spying on the building would be unlawful. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/khashoggi-saudi-prosecutor-60827697
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10-26-18 Salah Khashoggi and his family arrived in Washington on Thursday on a flight from Saudi Arabia, according to two sources close to the family, the Reuters news agency reported. He and his family joined his mother and his three siblings in the US capital, according to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity....
“Jamal told me that his wife was forced to divorce him after she was banned indefinitely from travel,” a Saudi human rights activist and close friend of the late Khashoggi, Yahya Assiri said. He said Khashoggi had also told him that Saudi authorities barred his entire family from travel in an attempt to pressure him to return....
Turkey does not have "any desire" to take the case to an international court, he added, and was willing to share information and the outcome of its investigation.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/son-jamal-khashoggi-leaves-saudi-arabia-report-1805999611
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10-29-18 “On Oct. 1 we became aware of the movement of a group, which included members of Ri'asat Al-Istikhbarat Al-Amah (Saudi security), to Istanbul, and it was pretty clear what their aim was,” the intelligence source told Daily Express. “Through channels we warned that this was not a good idea. Subsequent events show that our warning was ignored.” http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/uk-intelligence-knew-saudi-plot-to-kill-khashoggi-report-138352
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4 Saudi activists speak up:
10-22-18 (a) Omar Abdulaziz, a 27-year-old Saudi activist exiled in Canada, said he was approached earlier this year by Saudi officials who urged him to visit their embassy with them to collect a new passport. "They were saying 'it will only take one hour, just come with us to the embassy'," Abdulaziz, who rankled authorities with a YouTube show that satirized the Saudi leadership, said in a video posted on Twitter. He refused to go, fearing a trap, and two of his brothers and a handful of his friends were arrested in the kingdom, he said, thus validating his suspicions. The Washington Post said it received hours-long tapes from Abdulaziz of his conversations with those officials, which he secretly recorded.
(b) Abdullah Alaoudh, a Saudi scholar at Georgetown, said he was subjected to a similar "plot" in Washington. Last yea, when Alaoudh, son of prominent cleric Salman al-Awda who is jailed and faces trial in the kingdom, applied to renew his passport at the Saudi embassy in Washington, he says he was told to return to the kingdom to complete what appeared to be basic formalities. "They offered me a 'temporary pass' that would allow me to return to Saudi Arabia," Alaoudh told AFP. "I knew it was a trap and just left with my expired passport."...
(c) Manal al-Sharif, a Saudi woman activist exiled in Australia, said she narrowly escaped the kingdom's dragnet in September last year when Saud al-Qahtani sought to lure her to a Saudi embassy. "If it weren't for the kindness of God I would have been (another) victim," Sharif tweeted, posting a screenshot of private messages with Qahtani, a media advisor in the royal court who was sacked in the fallout over Khashoggi's killing.
The number of asylum seekers from Saudi Arabia globally has more than doubled since Prince Mohammed's ascendance to power -- from 575 cases in 2015 to 1,256 in 2017 -- according to the United Nations' refugee agency. Khashoggi's death has caused such a wave of fear among exiles that some are now cautious of even visiting their country's overseas missions.
(d) "The horrid story of Jamal Khashoggi has sent many activists into a state of shock," said Amani al-Ahmadi, a 27-year-old Saudi exile in Seattle. "Many activists abroad don't speak up, fearful of bringing harm to their families back home, losing their scholarships or worse abduction and arrest." https://www.france24.com/en/20181022-saudi-dissidents-fear-long-arm-state-after-khashoggi-murder
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10-10-18 The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, ordered an operation to lure Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi back to Saudi Arabia from his home in Virginia and then detain him, according to U.S. intelligence intercepts of Saudi officials discussing the plan. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/crown-prince-sought-to-lure-khashoggi-back-to-saudi-arabia-and-detain-him-us-intercepts-show/2018/10/10/57bd7948-cc9a-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html?utm_term=.a28b8de0c255
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8-17-2018 
- Ibrahim al-Asiri. Yemeni security officials say al-Qaidas chief bomb maker behind the 2009 Christmas Day plot to down an airliner over Detroit was killed in a US drone strike earlier this year. (AP)
CAIRO – Al-Qaida’s chief bomb maker, Ibrahim al-Asiri, who was behind the 2009 Christmas Day plot to down an airliner over Detroit and other foiled aviation-related terror attacks, was killed in a U.S. drone strike, Yemeni officials and a tribal leader said Friday....Al-Qaeda at Yemen has between 6,000 and 7,000 fighters – compared to IS militants who only number between 250 to 500 fighters. Al-Qaida’s top havens in Yemen are in the central Bayda and eastern Marib provinces. But since 2015 it has suffered heavy losses in leadership as U.S. drone strikes killed off top cadres, including co-founder Nasser al-Wahishi, who was Osama bin Laden top aide. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/aug/17/al-qaida-bomb-master-killed-in-us-strike-officials/
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10-29-18 According to WHO data, more than nine out of 10 people on the planet breathe dangerously toxic air, causing some seven million premature deaths each year. Air pollution is especially dangerous for children, and accounts for nearly one in 10 deaths among children under five around the globe, the report found. https://www.france24.com/en/20181029-air-pollution-kills-600000-children-each-year
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