| How do we know this isn’t some sort of elaborate photoshopped hoax? |
New photos published on Wednesday appear to show the 15-member "hit team" arriving at the consulate in Istanbul.
The alleged Saudi hit team can be seen arriving in
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire....
hours before the killing, entering the consulate and consular residence, and finally flying out of Turkey soon afterwards.
Istanbul police and
Video footage also shows Abdulaziz Mohammed al-Hawsawi, 31, a member of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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Crown Prince of 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...
as of 2016....
's security team, Anadolu news agency reported.
Another suspect seen was Saud al-Qahtani, who is believed to have supervised the 15-man hit squad that flew from the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
Qahtani, 40, is one of the highest-profile figures implicated in the killing and was reportedly Prince Mohammed's right-hand man. The 40-year-old was removed as a royal court adviser following Khashoggi's liquidation.
Khashoggi, a Saudi columnist for The Washington Post, went missing after entering the consulate in Istanbul on October 2.