Discussion: Body Double Wearing Khashoggi's Clothes Apparently Part Of Hit Squad

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This explains the first story, that Khashoggi was seen leaving the embassy.

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This Turkish official fails to explain Khashoggi’s success in the octagon in the consulate basement before his demise. Word is out he pinned 7 of the 18 assassins and fought two more to a draw before a headbutt knocked him out and he was declared the loser.

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The reporters who pegged this as a premeditated murder had me at bone saw. This is an horrific act by jared’s bestie.

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Watching the footage of the look alike in Khashoggi’s clothes walking around Istanbul is chilling. Rogue element my ass.

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I’m traveling in Bhutan right now and I can assure you that nearly all of our group has at least one bone saw in our luggage. Doesn’t everyone travel that way?

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Seen anyone paunchy, wearing golf duds, and an orange wig?

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There are images of this double in Khashoggi’s clothes the article says … why not show the pictures??

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My immediate thought was: If this was an “accident” and the panicked, where’d they get the fake beard? Just happened to have it on hand?

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Body doubles and bone saws. If the theory that this was a regrettable case of an interrogation gone wrong wears any thinner you’ll be able to read a newspaper through it.

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You can look at the CNN link although the sound seems to be acting up.

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“Khashoggi’s clothes were probably still warm when Madani put them on,” the official added.

Madani is watching his own back now.

And so it goes.

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These guys sure had a well thought out and prepared plan.

All without the Crown Prince’s knowledge. Not even a hint of what was going to happen to one of his fiercest critics.

I guess it didn’t cross his mind that day: “Hey, I wonder where my security guys are. Did I give them all the day off?”

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All the Saudis have to keep in mind though is Trump will let anyone off the hook for anything (except an “enemy” or the opposition) if they “strongly deny” what it is they’re accused of. Putin could station nukes in the Bahamas and Trump and the DoD would be at each other’s throats because Putin strongly denied doing it.

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My bad. It was 5:15 AM and prior to caffeine when I posted that.

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Incredible video of the body double hosted by CNN on the article’s link shows amazing tracking of this criminal thru Istanbul. The Turks have it together as far as surveillance goes. So much damning obvious evidence that MbS committed state sponsored murder by Turkey’s intelligence people is impossible to refute now. Erdogan holds all the cards.

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This is egregious. The cowardly GOP twits that think that somehow someway it is OK to pretend Khashoggi wasn’t a REAL American so it’s not their ‘business’ should be voted out. They are paving the way for every despot in the world.

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A member of the 15-person Saudi team that the Turkish government has accused of the apparent murder of Washington Post journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi was reportedly killed in a suspicious car accident in Saudi Arabia’s capital city of Riyadh earlier this week.

The pro-government Turkish newspaper Yeni Şafak reported this week that Meshal Saad Albostani of the Saudi Royal Air Force died in a “suspicious accident” in Riyadh, but did not cite a specific time or place. The short report, citing unnamed Turkish officials, also did not provide any details surrounding what happened in the crash or who else was involved. The report suggested Albostani “could have been silenced.”

Khashoggi disappeared after going to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2. He’s believed to have been tortured, including having his fingers cut off, and killed before beheading and dismembering his body, according to audio recordings obtained by Turkish officials and reported by Yeni Şafak. The opinion columnist was a longtime critic of the Saudi regime.

Albostani, 31, was accused of being part of the 15-man hit team reportedly responsible for Khashoggi ’s murder. Twelve of the men had links to the Saudi security services, according to The Washington Post. Five of those men have traveled to the U.S. in the past and could possibly be members of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s security team.

The Turkish media outlet reported Albostani and the 15-man group were inside the consulate when Khashoggi was killed. Albostani reportedly arrived to Turkey early in the morning on October 2, the day Khashoggi is believed to have been murdered, then flew back to Saudi on a private jet belonging to Sky Prime Aviation that evening.

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We should take the oil. I’ve said all along, we should take the oil.

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had this murder taken place in the US, would there have been any investigation at all?

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