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Jamal Khashoggi 'Killing'

Probe focus on Saudi prince's inner circle

CNN ONLINE
Turkish investigators wearing hazmat suits searched the Saudi consul general's residence in Istanbul yesterday, looking for clues to what happened to Jamal Khashoggi amid growing indications that the men allegedly responsible for the journalist's death have close ties to the highest levels of the Saudi government.
Sources told CNN that a group of Saudi men whom Turkish officials believe are connected to Khashoggi's apparent killing were led by a high-ranking intelligence officer, with one source saying he was close to the inner circle of the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain papers that would have allowed him to marry his Turkish fiancee. The insider-turned-critic of the Saudi government has not been seen since.
Turkish officials have told CNN that Khashoggi's body was dismembered after he was killed in the consulate.
Turkish investigators carried out a lengthy search of the consulate on Monday but were only allowed access to the consul general's residence in Istanbul for the first time on
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Wednesday. The consul general, Mohammad al-Otaibi, left the country on Tuesday, Turkish state news agency Anadolu reported.
Turkish authorities believe that 15 Saudi men who arrived in Istanbul on October 2 were connected to Khashoggi's possible death. At least some of them appear to have high-level connections in the Saudi government.
The high-ranking officer who was close to the Crown Prince's inner circle and led the group of men to Istanbul came from the General Intelligence Presidency, the main Saudi intelligence service, three sources familiar with the case told CNN.
Turkish police officers gather outside the Saudi consul general’s residence in Istanbul Wednesday.
One source said the officer assembled and sent his own team to interrogate Khashoggi.
One of the men under investigation by Turkish authorities is Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, a Saudi diplomat and intelligence officer.
Mutreb is closely connected to bin Salman, a Saudi source told CNN. "He was seconded to an elite protection brigade within the Royal Guard to serve as the personal security force of [the Crown Prince]," the source told
CNN.
Photographs have emerged of Mutreb with bin Salman during the Crown Prince's tour of the United States earlier this year.
Mutreb was the first secretary at the Saudi embassy in London, according to a 2007 UK government list of foreign diplomats and a Saudi source in London who knew him and described him as a colonel in Saudi intelligence.
Turkish officials also provided CNN with passport scans of seven other men they suspect to have been part of the Saudi team. The passport scans were taken on the day of Khashoggi's disappearance.
One of the scans appears to belong to Salah Muhammad al-Tubaiqi, listed as the head of forensic medicine at the Saudi Ministry of Interior. Another member of the group identified by Turkish official media is Muhammad Saad al-Zahrani, who has appeared on Saudi state TV alongside the Crown Prince.
If that group is to be characterized by Saudi Arabia as part of a rogue operation intended to bring Khashoggi back to the kingdom alive, questions could arise about al-Tubaiqi.
If the autopsy specialist left Saudi Arabia for Istanbul before Khashoggi entered the consulate, as Turkish
sources have asserted, it might be hard to square with the explanation that any killing was the result of a botched interrogation, and not premeditated.
Several US officials have told CNN that any such operation could not have happened without the Crown Prince's direct knowledge.
The New York Times reported Wednesday, without naming its source, that at least nine of the 15 Saudis identified by Turkish authorities as suspects in the Khashoggi case worked for the Saudi security services, military or other government ministries.