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Chilling quotes from alleged Khashoggi murder audio tape revealed | Chilling quotes from alleged Khashoggi murder audio tape revealed |
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A Turkish newspaper has released quotes from an audio tape which reportedly captured last moments of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. | A Turkish newspaper has released quotes from an audio tape which reportedly captured last moments of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. |
“Release my arm! What do you think you are doing?” the Washington Post columnist is heard saying. | “Release my arm! What do you think you are doing?” the Washington Post columnist is heard saying. |
READ MORE: Saudi Arabia to seek death penalty for Khashoggi’s accused killers | READ MORE: Saudi Arabia to seek death penalty for Khashoggi’s accused killers |
Habertürk newspaper, citing security sources, released the gruesome quotes on Monday.The paper alleges the recordings show that the journalist was seized by the Saudi squad right after he entered the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul on October 2. Khashoggi and four members of the squad are heard quarrelling for at least 7 minutes. This part takes place in the A unit of the consulate which hosts the visa department. | |
Then it’s heard how the 59-year-old was brought to the B unit, which hosts the administrative department. The 4-minute audio recording in that unit includes not only the sounds of a quarrel but also fighting. | |
Apart from four men from the Saudi squad and Khashoggi, three more men are heard in the audio tape. Turkish security sources reportedly identified one of them as Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb. He was named by Turkish authorizes as the leader of a 15-man ‘kill team’. | |
“Traitor! You will be brought to account!’” Mutreb is heard saying in the second part of the recording as soon as Khashoggi was taken into the consulate’s B unit. | |
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