June 19, 2019
By Jackie Northam
Editor's note: This story contains graphic details of the actions leading up to Jamal Khashoggi's death.
A special U.N. investigator (click here) says Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman should be investigated in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi because there is "credible evidence" that he and other senior officials in the kingdom were responsible.
Agnes Callamard, the special rapporteur for the U.N.'s Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, conducted a five-month investigation into Khashoggi's death last fall at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
Her resulting report, released Wednesday, found that "Khashoggi has been the victim of a deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under international human rights law."
Callamard's report says the mission to "execute Khashoggi" required significant coordination, resources and finances. It adds that every expert consulted for the report found it "inconceivable that an operation of this scale could be implemented without the Crown Prince being aware, at a minimum, that some sort of mission of a criminal nature, directed at Mr. Khashoggi, was being launched."...
Something at the time of the murder is that Donald Trump, Jr. was promoting the idea that Jamal Khashoggi deserved to die because he was affiliated with jihadists. Why would a president's son do that? The UN investigator may want to ask him about that.
October 13, 2018
By Sophie Tatum and Nicole Gaouette
Donald Trump Jr. retweeted (click here) an unsubstantiated claim on Friday insinuating missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is a terrorism sympathizer -- a move that comes as the administration of his father, President Donald Trump, faces pressure on how to respond to the journalist's disappearance....
That type of concern belongs in a police file and investigation, not death in a Saudi Arabian embassy. If find Donald Trump, Jr.'s behavior very strange. Why was he trying to justify the death?
President Erdogan is also stating the recent death of Mohammad Morsi (click here) was a murder and not a heart attack. I don't know how he knows that or why he believes that, but, there was a report about that as well.
