There is a more detailed reporting of the death of the journalist out of Turkey. The politics surrounding this death in Turkey is wholly inappropriate.
Nineteen have been arrested in connection with the case. I believe the arrests took place in Saudi Arabia, so the King is very serious about this tragedy and ending such extremist treatment of people.
And "Al Jazeera" is reporting after security reassurances from the UK and the USA, the King's Brother has returned to Saudi Arabia. He had left the kingdom to reside in the UK. He was retired at 70 years old. It is estimated there will a significant change in the leadership of Saudi Arabia.
31 October 2018
By Bethan McKernan
Jamal Khashoggi was strangled (click here) as soon as he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, then his body dismembered and destroyed in a premeditated killing, the city’s chief prosecutor has said in the first official confirmation of how the Saudi journalist died.
While Saudi Arabia has admitted that the dissident writer’s killing when he visited on 2 October to collect documents for his upcoming wedding was premeditated, it has not explained how.
Riyadh previously said Khashoggi died in a fight in a rogue extradition operation, and has maintained that the intact body was wrapped up in a rug and disposed of by an unidentified “local collaborator”.
“The victim’s body was dismembered and destroyed following his death by suffocation,” Wednesday’s statement said, bolstering Turkish investigators’ line of thought that Khashoggi’s remains could have been disposed of at the nearby consul general’s house, dissolved in acid or dumped in a well on the property....
Just as a point of interest, this is only one branch of the royal family.
October 1, 2018
The only surviving full brother of Saudi Arabia's King Salman (click here) has reportedly returned to the kingdom, amid an international outcry over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Prince Ahmad bin Abdulaziz flew back to Riyadh from London on Tuesday, according to three Saudi sources close to the prince cited by The New York Times, in what some analysts are calling a potential challenge to the authority of Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Sources told the Times bin Abdulaziz arrived in the Saudi capital around 01:30 (22:30 GMT on Monday) on Tuesday and was warmly received by his nephew, the crown prince, who greeted him at the airport....
