{"id":82281,"date":"2018-10-23T15:57:13","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=82281"},"modified":"2018-10-23T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:57:31","slug":"khashoggis-body-parts-found-in-garden-of-saudi-consul-generals-home-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/10\/23\/khashoggis-body-parts-found-in-garden-of-saudi-consul-generals-home-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Khashoggi\u2019s body parts found in garden of Saudi consul general\u2019s home \u2013 sources"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0Body parts belonging to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been found, according to Sky News sources, who added that he had been cut up\u201d and his face disfigured.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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With no photographic evidence to support the Sky News sources\u2019 claim, gruesome and unverified images of body parts \u2013 supposedly Khashoggi\u2019s \u2013 have been making the rounds in Arabic media.<\/p>\n

The sources\u2019 claim echoes a\u00a0statement<\/a>\u00a0by Do\u011fu Perin\u00e7ek, leader of the left-wing Vatan party on Monday night. Perin\u00e7ek told Turkish television that Khashoggi\u2019s\u00a0body parts\u201d<\/em>\u00a0had been recovered from a well in the Saudi consul\u2019s garden, and added that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would explain the findings later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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Turkish forensic police search for evidence at the garden of the Saudi Arabia’s Consul General Mohammad al-Otaibi on October 17, 2018 in Istanbul \u00a9 AFP \/ Yasin AKGUL<\/span><\/div>\n
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The news comes after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demanded Saudi officials reveal the whereabouts of Khashoggi\u2019s remains, after the Saudi government admitted Khashoggi had been murdered, albeit in a\u00a0fist fight\u201d<\/em>\u00a0with officials inside the consulate in Istanbul.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaking before the Turkish parliament on Tuesday, Erdogan said that the evidence we have so far collected indicate that Jamal Khashoggi was slain in a vicious, violent murder,”<\/em>\u00a0planned in advance by the Saudi government.<\/p>\n

Turkish sources\u00a0have mainteined from the start that Khashoggi was tortured, killed, and dismembered inside the consulate, and claim to have audio recordings of the journalist\u2019s final minutes alive. According to Erdogan, the individuals named by Saudi Arabia as suspects in the murder are also the same as those identified by a Turkish investigation.<\/p>\n

Ankara is now particularly interested in a claim that a Turkish party was involved in the disposal of Khashoggi\u2019s body after the murder and wants to bring that person to justice. But it was up to the Saudis to identify this local co-conspirator,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the Turkish leader argued.<\/p>\n

A raft of recent revelations seem to lend support to the Turks\u2019 theory that Khashoggi\u2019s murder was a pre-planned hit. A Turkish source shared CCTV\u00a0footage<\/a>\u00a0with CNN showing a body-double leaving the consulate building in Khashoggi\u2019s clothes, moments after the killing. Leaving through the back door, the doppelganger is seen wearing a fake beard and glasses to appear more like his alleged victim. Hours before the killing, the man is seen entering the building in his own clothes, without the beard and glasses.<\/p>\n

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Journalist Jamal Khashoggi (L) pictured outside the embassy before his disappearance. A man identified as Mustafa al-Madani (R), wearing Khashoggi’s clothes hours later \u00a9 CNN \u00a9<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Additional video footage obtained by Turkish broadcaster A Haber shows two men burning documents at the consulate on October 3, one day after Khashoggi entered the building for the last time. The\u00a0footage<\/a>\u00a0has not been verified.<\/p>\n

Further reports in Turkish media have\u00a0claimed<\/a>\u00a0that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman actually phoned Khashoggi and tried to convince him to return to Saudi Arabia. The journalist declined the prince\u2019s offer to fly to Riyadh, thinking he would be arrested and killed there, and was then murdered by the Saudi hit-team after the talk with MBS ended, the paper, pro-government Yeni Safak, wrote.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he is not yet satisfied\u201d with Riyadh\u2019s fist fight\u201d story, but said he will not halt lucrative arms deals with the Saudis. Trump said that the US would consider other things,\u201d possibly sanctions.<\/p>\n

CIA Director Gina Haspel reportedly traveled to Istanbul on Monday night to assist the investigation, according to a Reuters source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RT.com \u00a0Body parts belonging to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi have been found, according to Sky News sources, who added that he had been cut up\u201d and his face disfigured.\u201d With no photographic evidence to support the Sky News sources\u2019 claim, gruesome and unverified images of body parts \u2013 supposedly Khashoggi\u2019s \u2013 have been making the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}