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Saudis may admit Khashoggi killing

Say US media as under pressure Riyadh agrees on 'thorough probe' after Pompeo meets Salman

Agencies
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held talks with top Saudi leaders yesterday as sources told CNN that the Kingdom is preparing to acknowledge that missing journalist lamal Khashoggi died at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
Pompeo had a short discussion with King Salman before a longer meeting
with the King's son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's de facto ruler. US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Pompeo “thanked the King for his commitment to supporting a thorough, transparent, and timelyinvestigation" of the Khashoggi case and expressed 'concern” about the case to the foreign minister.
There was no public mention of any new Saudi explanation of Khashoggi's disappearance. CNN's sources say Saudi Arabia will contend that the Washington Post columnist died when an interrogation went awry.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkish officials, who
searched the consulate for nine hours on Monday, are looking into "toxic" and "painted over material" as part of their investigation. "My hope is that we can reach conclusions that will give us a reasonableFROM PAGE 16 opinion as soon as possible, because the investigation is looking into many things such as toxic materials and those materials being removed by painting them over," Erdogan told reporters.
Saudi Arabia has been under intense international pressure to explain Khashoggi's apparent death after he visited the consulate on October 2 to obtain papers that would have allowed him to marry his Turkish fiancee.
The affair has created a diplomatic rift between Saudi Arabia and the West and led to international firms pulling out of a high-profile summit in Riyadh. The CEOs of three top banks -Standard Chartered, HSBC and Credit Suisse - announced their withdrawal from the conference yesterday.
Khashoggi's family called for an independent, international commission to investigate the case.
FLURRY OF MEETINGS
Trump dispatched Pompeo to the region shortly after a phone call on Monday with King Salman. He was met at the airport in Riyadh yesterday by the Saudi foreign minister, and was undertaking a flurry of engagements with top officials throughout the day.
Pompeo's meeting with the King was relatively brief - based on the arrival and departure times of his motorcade, CNN estimates the encounter can have lasted no more than 15 minutes. Pompeo met with the Crown Prince for about 35 to 40 minutes, and was due to meet him again for dinner later.
Turkish authorities have said privately that Khashoggi was killed at the consulate on October 2. Saudi Arabia has previously insisted he left the building the same afternoon, but have provided no evidence to support the claim. His fiancee. Hatice Cengiz, waited outside the consulate and says she did not see him re-emerge.
Cengiz tweeted a Quranic verse yesterday promising "eternal hellfire" for the killers of "deliberate believers."
Turkish investigators were set to carry out a search of the Saudi Consul General's residence in Istanbul yesterday, according to a Turkish diplomatic source CCTV footage, which has served as a focal point in the investigations, showed vehicles moving from the consulate building to the nearby Consul General's residence on October2.
Officials, including a forensics team, conducted an investigation of the consulate that lasted well into the evening on Monday. Earlier in the day, CNN reporters saw a cleaning crew enter the building.
United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet called on Riyadh to lift immunity - bestowed by the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations - on its diplomatic premises and officials over the case of the disap-
peared journalist.
"Under international law, both a forced disappearance and an extra-judicial killing are very serious crimes, and immunity should not be used to impede investigations into what happened and who is responsible,11 Bachelet said in a statement released yesterday.
"Two weeks is a very long time for the probable scene of a crime not to have been subjected to a full forensic investigation."
SAUDIS' SHIFTING STORY
Sources told CNN on Monday that the Saudis are preparing a report that will acknowledge that the death of Khashoggi, a former Saudi royal insider who became a critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was the result of an interrogation that went wrong. The sources said the interrogation was intended to lead to his enforced return to Saudi Arabia.
One source said the report will likely conclude that the operation was carried out without clearance and transparency and that those involved will be held responsible. A source acknowledged that the report was still being prepared and cautioned that things could change.