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1-3-2018 Just last week, Salih Shehi, a prominent columnist, was arrested for appearing on TV and defending the people’s right to object. -Khashoggi https://www.reuters.com/article/us-saudi-politics-dissident-excerpts/excerpts-from-saudi-journalist-khashoggis-column-idUSKCN1MH0OC
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3-21-18 "If we remove the foreign minister of the United States that fast, we can do anything". "Tillerson was removed thanks to the major efforts MBZ put in. MBS just added the last touch," the source added.
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10-3-18 Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tells Bloomberg that his understanding was that Khashoggi left the consulate after “a few minutes or one hour. We have nothing to hide,” he says.
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Oct. 6:
Chris Murphy, US Senate candidate, CT
Chris Murphy Retweeted Marty Baron
If this is true - that the Saudis lured a U.S. resident into their consulate and murdered him - it should represent a fundamental break in our relationship with Saudi Arabia.
Chris Murphy added,
Marty Baron
Verified account
@PostBaron
Turkey concludes that prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed in Saudi consulate, two people familiar with the probe say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/world/wp/2018/10/06/turkey-concludes-that-prominent-journalist-jamal-khashoggi-was-killed-in-saudi-consulate-two-people-familiar-with-the-probe-say/ …
2:53 PM - 6 Oct 2018 https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1048692780849979393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1048692780849979393&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2F2018%2F10%2F08%2Fkhashoggi-case-is-crisis-us-saudi-ties%2F
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Oct. 7: Turkish officials say Khashoggi was killed at the consulate. A Saudi government statement describes the allegation as “baseless.”
Saudi officials in Istanbul took a team of journalists inside the consulate in a bid to prove their innocence. Meanwhile reports in Saudi media attempted to discredit the accounts of Khashoggi’s fiancee, who first reported that he was missing on Tuesday.
No Turkish official has yet publicly confirmed that Khashoggi is dead. In remarks made Sunday President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said only that the mystery was “very, very upsetting” and he was “chasing” the matter.
But many Turkish officials seemed confident in the assessment that the Saudis carried out murder. “There is concrete information; it will not remain an unsolved case,” said Yasin Aktay, an adviser to Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party, in a Sunday interview with CNN Turk.
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10-10-18 The crown prince denied as “absolutely false” any suspicion that Saudi agents might have detained or killed Khashoggi and contended it was “outrageous” to think he might have been “murdered in the consulate, during business hours and with dozens of staff and visitors in the building.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-10/u-s-knew-of-saudi-plan-to-seize-missing-journalist-post-says
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Oct. 15: Teams of Turkish investigators finally enter the consulate to start their search. A Saudi-owned satellite news channel describes the Saudis who were shown arriving in Turkey as “tourists.”
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Oct. 17:
AP: What did the crown prince tell you today, exactly, and what is your intelligence telling you?
Trump in AP interview: I spoke to the crown prince, so you have that. He said he and his father knew nothing about it. And that was very important. And I spoke to him with Mike Pompeo there. And the crown prince. I spoke to the king yesterday. The crown prince today wanting to know what was going on, what was happening, and he said very strongly that he and his father knew nothing about it.
AP: Did they raise this idea of rogue killers in any of those conversations?
Trump: Well, the concept of it, I guess. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/17/trumps-fanciful-falsehood-filled-ap-interview-annotated/?utm_term=.171d995409b3
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Oct. 20: In the WaPo interview, Trump made clear he has yet to be provided with any evidence that would make him believe MBS had direct knowledge that Khashoggi was going to be killed or order that it be done. He repeatedly displayed a realpolitik way of viewing the Middle East, praising Saudi Arabia for buying arms from the United States, reiterating the importance of oil prices and trashing Iran, saying: "We've got nobody else over there" to help protect Israel.
"I would love if he wasn't responsible," he said of MBS. "I think it's a very important ally for us. Especially when you have Iran doing so many bad things in the world, it's a good counterbalance to the world. Iran, they're as evil as it gets.” https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-trump-interview-saudi-prince-20181020-story.html
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10-23-18 Insisting on thinking outside the box, Jared Kushner pushed Trump to build his Mideast strategy on M.B.S. and the Saudis….“Mike Pompeo is telling him this is a decision with 10-year consequences,” one source said. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/jared-kushner-mbs-khashoggi-murder-trump
MBS always said that he will cut off the fingers of every writer who criticizes him,” a source told Sky News. https://www.ibtimes.com/jamal-khashoggis-body-parts-discovered-saudi-consul-generals-garden-well-reports-2726806
Regardless of what anybody says, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Egyptian and Israeli intelligence worked together in this murder or operation. https://www.yenisafak.com/en/columns/ibrahimkaragul/others-were-also-going-to-be-killed-after-khashoggi-what-was-the-turkey-leg-of-the-salman-zayed-project-what-will-erdogan-say-today-even-trump-can-no-longer-save-prince-salman-2046708
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Oct. 24: 13 journalist deaths took place in Syria, Yemen, Palestine/Israel, Libya and Saudi Arabia; around the same time, there were at least 15 other journalists held in detention by the Saudi authorities, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). https://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/jamal-khashoggi-not-only-victim-conscience-middle-east-1407069495
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Oct. 25:
@ChrisMurphyCT Oct 25
US Senate candidate, CT
The Saudis lie, over and over, and face no consequences.
Today we will provide the same support for their Yemen bombing campaign that we have for 2 years.
Trump has turned America into a global patsy. Lie to us, push us around, and we do nothing. https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT
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Oct. 27: "With our collective interests in peace and unwavering respect for human rights in mind, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in a diplomatic facility must concern us all greatly," Mattis told a conference in Manama, Bahrain.
"Failure of any one nation to adhere to international norms and the rule of law undermines regional stability at a time when it is needed most," Mattis said. He did not mention de facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by name at any point. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mattis-says-khashoggi-killing-undermines-regional-stability-middle-east-1505200863
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Oct. 27: Saudi FM Jubeir also told the Bahrain forum that Riyadh's relations with the United States were "ironclad" amid what he described as "media hysteria" over the killing of Khashoggi.
The foreign minister's comments came a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for the extradition of 18 Saudi nationals authorities say were involved in the murder of Khashoggi. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/khashoggi-suspects-will-be-prosecuted-saudi-arabia-saudi-fm-652020726
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