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Trump says ‘full report’ on Khashoggi murder in two days – ALJAZEERA

Nov 19, 2018 News

 

US President Donald Trump has said that his administration will release a full report in two days about the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Trump told reporters on Saturday that the report will include information on “who did it”.
“We’ll be having a very full report over the next two days, probably Monday or Tuesday,” he said.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was murdered at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2 after he went there to obtain marriage documents.
The whereabouts of his remains are still unknown.
Turkish and Saudi authorities say Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate by a team from the kingdom, but they disagree on whether the murder was premeditated.
The CIA has concluded that the Crown Prince, also known as MBS, ordered the killing of Khashoggi, according to reports in the US media in recent days.
Other US officials familiar with the case have cautioned that while it is likely that MBS was involved in the death, questions remain about what role he played, according to The Associated Press news agency.
Saudi Arabia has repeatedly changed its narrative of the killing, first denying knowledge of the journalist’s whereabouts and later saying he was killed when an argument turned into a fistfight.
Last week, Saudi authorities announced that Riyadh was seeking the death penalty for five people accused of “ordering and committing” the murder.
Shaalan al-Shaalan, the kingdom’s deputy public prosecutor, told a news conference in Riyadh that a 15-member squad was formed to bring Khashoggi to Saudi Arabia from Istanbul “by means of persuasion”. But after “talks with him failed” inside the consulate, Khashoggi was killed with “a large amount of a drug resulting in an overdose” and then dismembered, in the kingdom’s latest account of what happened.
Al-Shaalan also said MBS was not implicated in the gruesome murder.
‘NO REASON’ TO LISTEN TO MURDER RECORDING
The US President said on Fox News that there’s “no reason” for him to listen to an audio recording of Khashoggi’s murder at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
Trump confirmed that the US has the recording, which was provided by Turkey, but told “Fox News Sunday” that “I don’t want to hear the tape, no reason for me to hear the tape”.
He said being briefed was enough and he did not want to hear the audio because it’s a “suffering tape, it’s a terrible tape”, in the interview recorded on Friday.
The killing was “very violent, vicious and terrible”, Trump said.
Later on Sunday, Trump said MBS told him directly he had nothing to do with Khashoggi’s killing. Trump also said he wonders, “Will anybody really know?”

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