Saudi Arabian officials have proposed a new version of their story explaining how journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the country’s consulate on October…
Saudi Arabian officials have proposed a new version of their story explaining how journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside the country’s consulate on October 2.
According to a Reuters report, the Saudis are now claiming that a group of Saudi agents showed up at the consulate to “confront” Kahshoggi — who had recently become an outspoken critic of Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman — and when he resisted he was placed in a choke hold, during which he accidentally died.
The Saudi agents then apparently panicked, according to the new version of the story. They rolled Khashoggi’s body up in a carpet and handed it over to “a local individual” to somehow dispose of the remains, according to a report by the online news source Spectator Index.
As part of the cover-up, one of the Saudi “interrogation” team members dressed in Khashoggi’s clothes and exited the consulate, so he would be filmed on security cameras to create the appearance that Khashggi was still alive, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
But while surveillance video of Khashoggi entering the consulate on October 2 has been made public, according to the investigative site Bellingcat, no video of Khashoggi, or anyone purporting to be him, exiting the compound has yet emerged.
