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Tuesday 23 OcTOber 2018
Leaked video shows Khashoggi 'body double' after killing

By SUZAN FRASER By nightfall, Turkish police
AYSE WIETING began searching an under-
JON GAMBRELL ground car parking garage
ISTANBUL (AP) — Just hours in Istanbul's Sultangazi dis-
after writer Jamal Khashog- trict. Surveillance footage
gi was killed in the Saudi on TRT showed what Turkish
Consulate in Istanbul, a security officials described
man strolled out of the dip- as suspicious actions, in-
lomatic post apparently cluding an image of a man
wearing the columnist's moving a bag from one ve-
clothes as part of a ma- hicle to another.
cabre deception to sow Meanwhile, Saudi state
confusion over his fate, ac- media reported that both
cording to surveillance vid- Prince Mohammed and
eo leaked Monday. King Salman made calls
The new video broad- to Khashoggi's son, Salah,
cast by CNN, as well as a early Monday. Statements
pro-government Turkish from the agency said both
newspaper's report that a the king and the crown
member of Saudi Crown prince expressed their con-
Prince Mohammed bin dolences for Khashoggi's
Salman's entourage made death.
four calls to the royal's of- Turkish police secure an underground car park, where authorities earlier found a vehicle belong- A Saudi friend of Khashoggi
fice from the consulate ing to the Saudi Consulate, in Istanbul, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. who was in frequent touch
around the same time, put Associated Press with him before his death
ever-increasing pressure on told the AP that Salah
the kingdom. Meanwhile, into the open, those re- the writer. The man walks the consulate. The newspa- Khashoggi had been under
Turkish crime-scene investi- sponsible will be punished out of the consulate via per said the four calls went a travel ban and barred
gators swarmed a garage and no one will dare think its back exit with an ac- to Bader al-Asaker, the from leaving the kingdom
Monday night in Istanbul of carrying out such a thing complice, then takes a taxi head of Prince Moham- since last year as a result
where a Saudi consular ve- again." to Istanbul's famed Blue med's office. It said anoth- of his father's criticism of
hicle had been parked. The kingdom's announce- Mosque, where he goes to er call went to the United the government. The friend
All this came on the eve of ment Saturday that a public bathroom, chang- States. spoke on condition of ano-
Prince Mohammed's high- Khashoggi died in a "fist- es back out of the clothes Yeni Safak cited no source nymity for fear of repercus-
profile investment summit fight" was met with inter- and leaves. He later eats for the information. How- sion. The Saudi statements
in Riyadh, which has seen a national skepticism and dinner with his accomplice ever, pro-government did not acknowledge the
raft of the world's top busi- allegations of a cover-up and goes back to a hotel, newspapers have been ban.
ness leaders decline to at- to absolve the 33-year-old where footage shows him leaking information about Five Turkish employees of
tend over the slaying of the crown prince of direct re- smiling and laughing. Khashoggi's killing, appar- the consulate also gave
writer for The Washington sponsibility. The state-run broadcaster ently with the help of Turk- testimony to prosecutors
Post. U.S. President Donald TRT later also reported that ish security forces. Yeni Monday, Turkish media
U.S. Treasury Secretary Ste- Trump told reporters at the a man who entered the Safak reported last week reported. Istanbul's chief
ven Mnuchin, who said he White House on Monday consulate was seen leaving that Saudi officials cut off prosecutor had summoned
would not attend the con- that he was "not satisfied the building in Khashoggi's Khashoggi's fingers and 28 more staff members
ference, met with the crown with what I've heard," re- clothes. then decapitated him at of the Saudi Consulate,
prince on Monday night. garding Khashoggi's death. In the days after Khashoggi the consulate as his fian- including Turkish citizens
The Saudi foreign ministry He added: "We will know vanished, Saudi officials cée waited outside. and foreign nationals, to
tweeted out a photo of the very soon." initially said he had left Officials in Saudi Arabia give testimony. Some Turk-
two men meeting, and U.S. Turkish media reports and the consulate by its back have not answered repeat- ish employees reportedly
Treasury spokesman Tony officials maintain that a door. Saudi Ambassador ed requests for comment said they were instructed
Sayegh said in a separate 15-member Saudi team to the U.S. Prince Khalid bin from The Associated Press not to go to work around
tweet that Mnuchin raised flew to Istanbul on Oct. 2, Salman, a brother of the in recent days, including on the time that Khashoggi
the Kashoggi investigation knowing Khashoggi would crown prince, wrote Oct. Monday. Saudi Arabia so disappeared.q
in his discussions with the enter the consulate to get 8 that Khashoggi had left, far has not acknowledged
crown prince. a document he needed and that claims the king- or explained Mutreb's pres-
Turkish President Recep to get married. Once he dom "have detained him ence in Istanbul or the pres-
Tayyip Erdogan has prom- was inside, the Saudis ac- or killed him are absolutely ence of a forensics and
ised that details of Khashog- costed Khashoggi, cut off false, and baseless." autopsy expert at the con-
gi's killing "will be revealed his fingers, killed and dis- The fact that the Saudi sulate before Khashoggi ar-
in all its nakedness" in an membered the 59-year-old team would allegedly have rived.
address he'll make before writer, according to Turkish a man walking around in Last week, a leaked photo
parliament around the media reports. Khashoggi's clothes would apparently taken from sur-
same time Tuesday. Surveillance video on suggest a premeditated veillance footage showed
"We are faced with a situ- CNN showed the man in plot to kill the writer. Mutreb at the consulate,
ation in which it was a bru- Khashoggi's dress shirt, suit A separate report Mon- just ahead of Khashoggi's
tally planned (killing) and jacket and pants, although day by newspaper Yeni arrival. Mutreb's name also
efforts were made to cover he wore a different pair of Safak said Maher Abdu- matches that of a first sec-
it up," said Omer Celik, a shoes. It cited a Turkish of- laziz Mutreb, a member of retary who once served as
spokesman for Turkey's rul- ficial as describing the man Prince Mohammed's en- a diplomat at the Saudi Em-
ing Justice and Develop- as a "body double" and a tourage seen on trips to the bassy in London, according
ment Party. "God willing, member of the Saudi team U.S., France and Spain this to a 2007 list compiled by
the results will be brought sent to Istanbul to target year, made the calls from the British Foreign Office.