{"id":115293,"date":"2021-02-27T11:11:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T03:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115293"},"modified":"2021-02-27T11:11:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T03:11:51","slug":"us-report-says-saudi-crown-prince-approved-operation-to-capture-or-kill-khashoggi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115293","title":{"rendered":"US report says Saudi crown prince approved operation to &#8220;capture or kill&#8221; Khashoggi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-02\/27\/139770413_16143717161051n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Oct 15, 2018: A Turkish team entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to conduct a search over the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A declassified US intelligence report released on Friday assessed Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud approved an operation to &#8220;capture or kill&#8221; Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We assess that Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,&#8221; read the report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia denied the crown prince was involved in the death of Khashoggi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khashoggi, a columnist for the Washington Post, was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018, and a number of top Saudi officials were arrested in connection with the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Public Prosecution last September issued the final verdicts against eight convicts in Khashoggi&#8217;s killing, five were sentenced to 20 years in jail, and three sentenced to seven to ten years in jail.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 15, 2018: A Turkish team entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to conduct a search over the disappearance of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A declassified US intelligence report released on Friday assessed Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud approved an operation to &#8220;capture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}