RIYADH – In the hours leading up to Journalist Khushoogi killing, SaudiArabia’s crown prince sent at least 11 messages to his closest advisor whowas charged with overseeing the murder, the *Wall Street Journal* saidSaturday quoting a CIA assessment.
Mohammed bin Salman also told associates in August last year that if hefailed to persuade Khashoggi to return to Saudi Arabia, “we could possiblylure him outside Saudi Arabia and make arrangements” — a communication theCentral Intelligence Agency said “seems to foreshadow the Saudi operationlaunched against Khashoggi.”
The *Journal* said it had reviewed excerpts of the highly classifiedintelligence document, which relied on electronic intercepts and otherclandestine information.
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Khashoggi, a trenchant critic of the crown prince who relocated to Virginiaand wrote OpEd for the Washington Post, was killed by Saudi operativesinside the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate on October 2, triggering globalcondemnation. -APP/AFP
