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Turkey seeks arrest of Saudi crown prince allies in Khashoggi killing ISTANBUL — A Turkish prosecutor has demanded that arrest warrants be issued against two Saudi nationals close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Turkish source close to the investigation said Wednesday. Khashoggi, 59, was killed shortly after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork for his upcoming marriage. The chief prosecutor’s office in Istanbul filed an application Tuesday to obtain the warrants for Ahmad al-Assiri and Saud al-Qahtani, described in court documents as being “among the planners” of the murder of the Washington Post contributor Khashoggi. Assiri often sat in during Prince Mohammed’s closed-door meetings with visiting foreign dignitaries and Qahtani was a key counsellor to the crown prince. Both were sacked after Riyadh admitted Khashoggi was killed in the Saudi consulate. According to Turkey, a 15-member Saudi team was sent to Istanbul to kill Khashoggi. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the order to kill Khashoggi came from the highest levels of the Saudi government, but has insisted it was not King Salman. Riyadh has since detained 21 people over the murder. Despite speculation that the powerful crown prince ordered the hit, the kingdom has strongly denied he was involved. Sen. Graham: “There’s a smoking saw” Mr. Trump has repeatedly defended the senior Saudi royals in the wake of the Khashoggi killing. In November, the president said bin Salman may have had no knowledge of the killing, and in any event the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia should not be jeopardized over it. But two key U.S. Republican senators said a Tuesday briefing by the CIA’s director only strengthened their conviction that Prince Mohammed directed the murder. “There’s not a smoking gun — there’s a smoking saw,” Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters after the classified meeting. “I went into the briefing believing it was virtually impossible for an operation like this to be carried out without the crown prince’s knowledge,” Graham added. “I left the briefing with high confidence that my initial assessment of the situation was correct.” Sen. Bob Corker, an outspoken Republican critic of President Trump and his response to Khashoggi’s killing, stressed, “If the crown prince went in front of a jury, he would be convicted in 30 minutes.” Asked by a reporter if it would be a murder conviction, Corker replied “yes.” “All evidence leads back to the crown prince” Republican Sen. Richard Shelby told reporters as he left the Tuesday briefing. Two senators present told CBS News that Haspel did not share with lawmakers the audio tapes from the day Khashoggi was killed and reportedly dismembered inside the Saudi consulate. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has said the U.S. does not have any such tapes in its possession. Unanswered questions The Istanbul prosecutor in charge of the investigation said in late October that the Saudi former insider turned critic was strangled then his body was cut into pieces. The remains of Khashoggi’s body have not been found. There has been speculation in pro-government media that his body was dissolved in acid. A senior Turkish official Wednesday said the prosecutor’s move “reflects the view that the Saudi authorities won’t take formal action against those individuals”. The official, who did not wish to be named, pointed to the fact that the wording of the prosecutor’s request suggested that the current list wasn’t necessarily exhaustive, appearing to indicate that more arrest warrants could be sought. Amid criticism from Ankara over Saudi Arabia’s lack of cooperation with the Turkish investigation, the official said Riyadh could “address those concerns” over its commitment to probing the murder by extraditing all the suspects to Turkey. © 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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अमेरिकी राष्ट्रपति डोनल्ड ट्रम्पले पत्रकार जमाल खशोग्जीको हत्याबारेको साउदी अरेबियाको प्रतिक्रिया ‘हालसम्मकै नराम्रो ढाकछोप’ भएको बताएका छन्। उनले हत्या योजनामा संलग्न जोकोही भए पनि ‘ठूलो समस्यामा पर्ने’ बताए। राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पको त्यस्तो भनाइ आएको केही समयपछि विदेशमन्त्री माइक पोम्पेओले अमेरिकाले घटनामा संलग्न भएकाहरूलाई ‘सजाय दिने’बताए। उनले सन्दिग्ध २१ जनाको भिसा अमेरिकाले रद्द गर्न लागेको पनि जानकारी दिए। दबाब अरब जगत्को आफ्नो एउटा महत्त्वपूर्व साझेदार साउदी अरेबियाप्रति कडा रवैया अपनाउन अमेरिकामाथि दबाब बढ्दो छ। ह्वाइट हाउसमा पत्रकारहरूसँग कुरा गर्दै राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्पले भने, ‘उनीहरूको एकदम नराम्रो सोचाइ रहेछ, त्यो एकदम नराम्रो तरिकाले गरे र इतिहासकै त्यो सबैभन्दा नराम्रो ढाकछोप रह्यो।’ उनले अगाडि थपे, ‘त्यो सोचलाई त्यही रोक्नुपर्थ्यो किनकि जसले त्यसो गर्ने सोच बाहिर ल्यायो मेरो विचारमा त्यो ठूलो समस्यामा छ। र, उनीहरू ठूलो समस्यामा पर्नुपर्छ।’ साउदी अधिराज्यले खशोग्जीलाई के भएको हो भन्ने विषयमा विरोधाभाषपूर्ण विवरण दिँदै आएको छ। ५९ वर्षीय खशोग्जी जीवितै रहेको हप्तौँसम्म दावी गर्दै आएका रियादका अधिकारीहरूले अहिले आएर छाडा एजेन्टहरूले उनको हत्या गरेको स्वीकारेका छन्। अक्टोबर २ मा टर्कीको इस्तानबुलस्थित साउदी वाणिज्य दूतावास प्रवेश गरेदेखि खशोग्जी बेपत्ता भएका थिए। असह्य अमेरिकी विदेश मन्त्रालयमा आयोजित एउटा पत्रकार सम्मेलनमा विदेशमन्त्री पोम्पेओले आफू र राष्ट्रपति ट्रम्प ‘परिस्थितिलाई लिएर खुशी नरहेको’ बताए। उनले भने, ‘हामी यो कुरा प्रस्ट पार्न चाहन्छौँ कि हिंसाको माध्यमबाट एकजना पत्रकारको मुख थुन्ने बर्बर कृत्य अमेरिकालाई सह्य हुँदैन।’ साउदी युवराज मोहम्मद बिन सलमानले घटनाबारे जे विवरण दिन्छन्, के अमेरिकाले त्यो स्वीकार्ने छ भन्ने जिज्ञासामा पोम्पेओले भने, ‘अमेरिकाले जे पत्ता लगाउँछ त्यसलाई हामीले स्वीकार्नेछौँ।’ ‘हाम्रो आफ्नै बुझाइका लागि विश्वभरि हाम्रा मान्छेले काम गर्छन्। हामी आफैँ तथ्य सङ्कलन गर्छौँ। हामी आफैँले तथ्यहरू थाहा पाउनेछौँ।’ यसअघि टर्कीका राष्ट्रपति रेजेप तय्यीप एर्दोआनले मङ्गलवार आफ्ना पार्टीका सांसदहरूलाई सम्बोधन गर्दै खशोग्जीलाई मार्ने योजना निकै दिन अगाडि नै भएको हुनुपर्ने बताएका थिए। उनले खशोग्जीको नियोजित र ‘क्रुर’ हत्या भएको पुष्टि गर्ने टर्कीसँग बलियो प्रमाण रहेको पनि बताए। (बीबीसी)