Jamal Khashoggi was murdered on orders of Crown Prince MBS: CIA
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*ISLAMABAD - The CIA has concluded that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in Istanbul on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.*
The Saudi government, however, claimed that he was not involved in the killing.
US intelligence intercepted a phone call that the prince’s brother Khalid bin Salman, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, had with Khashoggi. Khalid told him it’s safe for him to go the Saudi consulate to get his documents, reported Washington Post link .
The prince’s brother made the call on his directions, however, it is unclear whether he knew that Khashoggi would be killed.
Fatimah Baeshen, a spokeswoman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington, refuted the claims in CIA’s assessment and said the two never discussed “anything related to going to Turkey.”
