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The Grand Turk
Khashoggi's body parts transported in suitcases: Report
2018-11-05
Not acid? Okeydokey then.
[Al Jazeera] Jamal Khashoggi's body was dismembered and put into five suitcases after he was strangled upon entering Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's consulate in Istanbul last month, according to a report by a Ottoman Turkish pro-government newspaper.

Citing unnamed officials, Sabah reported on Sunday that the suitcases were then taken to the Saudi consul-general's residence near the consulate the day the journalist - a critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
, also known as MBS - was killed on October 2.

The officials said that Maher Mutreb, Salah Tubeigy and Thaar al-Harbi were the three key figures from a 15-member hit squad reportedly involved in dismembering Khashoggi's body and removing it from the premises.

Mutreb was a direct aide to MBS, while Tubeigy was the head of the Saudi Scientific Council of Forensics and a colonel in the kingdom's army.

Al-Harbi was reportedly promoted to lieutenant in the Saudi royal guard last year for bravery in the defence of the crown prince's palace in Jeddah.

Sabah's report came 48 hours after Ottoman Turkish President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him. It's a sin, a shame, and a felony to insult the president of Turkey...
said he believed that the order to kill the journalist came from the "highest levels" of the Saudi state.

Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, reporting from Istanbul, said on Sunday the latest information added detail to the picture being formulated by Ottoman Turkish prosecutors who say Khashoggi was strangled and dismembered soon after entering the building.

Posted by:Fred

#4  How can you tell when Ercodam's are lying . "Are their lips moving ?"
Posted by: Snavimble Bucket1794   2018-11-05 17:04  

#3  "I have it from good Turkish sources that he was cut up, dissolved, reassembled into parts, packed in a suitcase, then buried in the garden, then dug up and transported via air to...somewhere"
Posted by: Frank G   2018-11-05 14:46  

#2  Let's see... they also said earlier they were disposed of in the garden, or in an old well on the consulate's property...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2018-11-05 12:16  

#1  If you fly southwest the first 2 bags are free.
Posted by: Airandee   2018-11-05 11:58  

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