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发帖数: 61690 | 1 The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered
the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the country's consulate in
Istanbul last month, The Washington Post reported Friday.
The agency has high confidence in its assessment, the newspaper reported.
The CIA reportedly examined multiple sources of intelligence in reaching its
conclusion, including a call between the crown prince's brother Khalid bin
Salman and Khashoggi.
Khalid, who is the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., reportedly told Khashoggi,
who was a columnist for The Post, that he should go to the country's
consulate in Istanbul to get documents for his marriage to a Turkish woman,
offering assurances that he would be safe. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2
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【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered
: the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the country's consulate in
: Istanbul last month, The Washington Post reported Friday.
: The agency has high confidence in its assessment, the newspaper reported.
: The CIA reportedly examined multiple sources of intelligence in reaching its
: conclusion, including a call between the crown prince's brother Khalid bin
: Salman and Khashoggi.
: Khalid, who is the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., reportedly told Khashoggi,
: who was a columnist for The Post, that he should go to the country's
: consulate in Istanbul to get documents for his marriage to a Turkish woman,
| a********r
发帖数: 4013 | | M****u
发帖数: 17708 | 4 沙特完蛋了，川普也不能包庇了，土鸡国牛逼，一根大大的搅屎棍
：The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered
：the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the country's
consulate in Istanbul last month, The Washington Post reported Friday. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 5
ordered
【在 M****u 的大作中提到】
: 沙特完蛋了，川普也不能包庇了，土鸡国牛逼，一根大大的搅屎棍
:
: ：The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered
: ：the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the country's
: consulate in Istanbul last month, The Washington Post reported Friday.
| d********m
发帖数: 3662 | 6 stop doing this, man
I am eating
【在 b********n 的大作中提到】
:
: ordered
| W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 7 地球人都知道的事实
除了他还能有谁能下这种命令
下面的人没有他的指使，谁有胆子在领事馆里头杀人？
不过美媒现在迫切希望淡化这个新闻，基本放在不太重要的地方播出
The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered
the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month,
contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the
killing, according to people familiar with the matter.
The CIA’s assessment, in which officials have said they have high
confidence, is the most definitive to date linking Mohammed to the operation
and complicates the Trump administration’s efforts to preserve its
relationship with a close ally. A team of 15 Saudi agents flew to Istanbul
on government aircraft in October and killed Khashoggi inside the Saudi
consulate, where he had come to pick up documents that he needed for his
planned marriage to a Turkish woman.
In reaching its conclusions, the CIA examined multiple sources of
intelligence, including a phone call that the prince’s brother Khalid bin
Salman, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, had with Khashoggi,
according to the people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to discuss the intelligence. Khalid told Khashoggi, a
contributing columnist to The Washington Post, that he should go to the
Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve the documents and gave him
assurances that it would be safe to do so.
It is not clear if Khalid knew that Khashoggi would be killed, but he made
the call at his brother’s direction, according to the people familiar with
the call, which was intercepted by U.S. intelligence.
Fatimah Baeshen, a spokeswoman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington, said the
ambassador and Khashoggi never discussed “anything related to going to
Turkey.” She added that the claims in the CIA’s “purported assessment are
false. We have and continue to hear various theories without seeing the
primary basis for these speculations.”
The CIA’s conclusion about Mohammed’s role was also based on the agency’s
assessment of the prince as the country’s de facto ruler who oversees even
minor affairs in the kingdom. “The accepted position is that there is no
way this happened without him being aware or involved,” said a U.S.
official familiar with the CIA’s conclusions.
The CIA sees Mohammed as a “good technocrat,” the U.S. official said, but
also as volatile and arrogant, someone who “goes from zero to 60, doesn’t
seem to understand that there are some things you can’t do.”
CIA analysts believe he has a firm grip on power and is not in danger of
losing his status as heir to the throne despite the Khashoggi scandal. “The
general agreement is that he is likely to survive,” the official said,
adding that Mohammed’s role as the future Saudi king is “taken for granted
.”
A spokesman for the CIA declined to comment.
Over the past several weeks, the Saudis have offered multiple, contradictory
explanations for what happened at the consulate. This week, the Saudi
public prosecutor blamed the operation on a rogue band of operatives who
were sent to Istanbul to return Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia, in an operation
that veered off course when the journalist “was forcibly restrained and
injected with a large amount of a drug resulting in an overdose that led to
his death,” according to a report by the prosecutor.
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The prosecutor announced charges against 11 alleged participants and said he
would seek the death penalty against five of them.
The assassination of Khashoggi, a prominent critic of Mohammed’s policies,
has sparked a foreign policy crisis for the White House and raised questions
about the administration’s reliance on Saudi Arabia as a key ally in the
Middle East and bulwark against Iran.
President Trump has resisted pinning the blame for the killing on Mohammed,
who enjoys a close relationship with Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-
law and senior adviser. Privately, aides said, Trump has been shown evidence
of the prince’s involvement but remains skeptical that Mohammed ordered
the killing.
The president has also asked CIA and State Department officials where
Khashoggi’s body is and has grown frustrated that they have not been able
to provide an answer. The CIA does not know the location of Khashoggi’s
remains, according to the people familiar with the agency’s assessment.
Among the intelligence assembled by the CIA is an audio recording from a
listening device that the Turks placed inside the Saudi consulate, according
to the people familiar with the matter. The Turks gave the CIA a copy of
that audio, and the agency’s director, Gina Haspel, has listened to it.
The audio shows that Khashoggi was killed within moments of entering the
consulate, according to officials in multiple countries who have listened to
it or been briefed on its contents. Khashoggi died in the office of the
Saudi consul general, who can be heard expressing his displeasure that
Khashoggi’s body now needed to be disposed of and the facility cleaned of
any evidence, according to people familiar with the audio recording.
The CIA also examined a call placed from inside the consulate after the
killing by an alleged member of the Saudi hit team, Maher Mutreb, a security
official who has often been seen at the crown prince’s side and who was
photographed entering and leaving the consulate on the day of the killing.
Mutreb called Saud al-Qahtani, then one of the top aides to Mohammed, and
informed him that the operation had been completed, according to people
familiar with the call.
This week, the Treasury Department sanctioned 17 individuals it said were
involved in Khashoggi’s death, including Qahtani, Mutreb and the Saudi
consul general in Turkey, Mohammad al-Otaibi.
The CIA’s assessment of Mohammed’s role in the assassination also tracks
with information developed by foreign governments, according to officials in
several European capitals who have concluded that the operation was too
brazen to have taken place without Mohammed’s direction.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his government has shared
the audio with Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia.
In addition to calls and audio recordings, CIA analysts also linked some
members of the Saudi hit team directly to Mohammed himself. Some of the 15
members have served on his security team and traveled in the United States
during visits by senior Saudi officials, including the crown prince,
according to passport records reviewed by The Washington Post.
The U.S. had also obtained intelligence before Khashoggi’s death that
indicated he might be in danger. But it wasn’t until after he disappeared,
on Oct. 2, that U.S. intelligence agencies began searching archives of
intercepted communications and discovered material indicating that the Saudi
royal family had been seeking to lure Khashoggi back to Riyadh.
Two U.S. officials said there has been no indication that officials were
aware of this intelligence in advance of Khashoggi’s disappearance or had
missed any chance to warn him.
Khashoggi “was not a person of interest,” before his disappearance, and
the fact that he was residing in Virginia meant that he was regarded as a U.
S. person and therefore shielded from U.S. intelligence gathering, one of
the officials said.
Trump has told senior White House officials that he wants Mohammed to remain
in power because Saudi Arabia helps to check Iran, which the administration
considers its top security challenge in the Middle East. He has said that
he does not want the controversy over Khashoggi’s death to impede oil
production by the kingdom.
One lingering question is why Mohammed might have decided to kill Khashoggi,
who was not agitating for the crown prince’s removal.
A theory the CIA has developed is that Mohammed believed Khashoggi was a
dangerous Islamist who was too sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood,
according to people familiar with the assessment. Days after Khashoggi
disappeared, Mohammed relayed that view in a phone call with Kushner and
John Bolton, the national security adviser, who has long opposed the
Brotherhood and seen it as a regional security threat.
Mohammed’s private condemnation of the slain journalist stood in contracts
to his government’s public comments, which mourned Khashoggi’s killing as
a “terrible mistake” and a “tragedy.”
U.S. officials are unclear on when or whether the Saudi government will
follow through with its threatened executions of the individuals blamed for
Khashoggi’s killing. “It could happen overnight or take 20 years,” the U.
S. official said, adding that the treatment of subordinates could erode
Mohammed’s standing going forward.
In killing those who followed his orders, “it’s hard to get the next set [
of subordinates] to help,” the official said.
John Hudson and Missy Ryan in Washington, Souad Mekhennet in Frankfurt, and
Loveday Morris and Kareem Fahim in Istanbul contributed to this report.
Shane Harris covers intelligence and national security for the Post. He has
been a writer at the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and other
publications. He also has written two books, The Watchers and @War.
Greg Miller is a national security correspondent for The Washington Post and
a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. He is the author of "The
Apprentice," a book on Russia's interference in the 2016 U.S.
presidential race and the fallout under the Trump administration.
Josh Dawsey is a White House reporter for The Washington Post. He joined the
paper in 2017. He previously covered the White House for Politico, and New
York City Hall and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for the Wall Street
Journal.
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发帖数: 45267 | 8 so what只能寄希望于沙特王室内斗把这个王储搞掉，我帝是不敢出手的
in
its
bin
,
【在 b*****d 的大作中提到】
: The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered
: the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the country's consulate in
: Istanbul last month, The Washington Post reported Friday.
: The agency has high confidence in its assessment, the newspaper reported.
: The CIA reportedly examined multiple sources of intelligence in reaching its
: conclusion, including a call between the crown prince's brother Khalid bin
: Salman and Khashoggi.
: Khalid, who is the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., reportedly told Khashoggi,
: who was a columnist for The Post, that he should go to the country's
: consulate in Istanbul to get documents for his marriage to a Turkish woman,
| M****u
发帖数: 17708 | 9 这个王储如果被斗倒了，肯定下场也很惨
：so what只能寄希望于沙特王室内斗把这个王储搞掉，我帝是不敢出手的
： | c*********i
发帖数: 79 | 10 灯塔国不照耀绿教兄弟的人权啊
以后怎么好意思说新疆维族人权？ | | | h****g
发帖数: 11365 | | n*********7
发帖数: 4682 | | D*******d
发帖数: 298 | 13 怎么可能淡化，死的是记者，又是器人？
Foxnews, CNN都是头条。
the
operation
【在 W*****B 的大作中提到】
: 地球人都知道的事实
: 除了他还能有谁能下这种命令
: 下面的人没有他的指使，谁有胆子在领事馆里头杀人？
: 不过美媒现在迫切希望淡化这个新闻，基本放在不太重要的地方播出
: The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered
: the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month,
: contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the
: killing, according to people familiar with the matter.
: The CIA’s assessment, in which officials have said they have high
: confidence, is the most definitive to date linking Mohammed to the operation
| e*********1
发帖数: 266 | 14 灯塔国从来是照别人不敢照自己的
【在 c*********i 的大作中提到】
: 灯塔国不照耀绿教兄弟的人权啊
: 以后怎么好意思说新疆维族人权？
| f******t
发帖数: 19544 | | n*****9
发帖数: 654 | 16 叔从一开始就知道西唉爱参与了抓脏。
现在出来也是理所当然的。
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