An assassination squad of 15 men disembarked two charter planes in the Turkish city of Istanbul Tuesday on the orders of the Saudi royal court. After checking in to two hotels, the men laid in wait until Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi consulate, where they killed him and then dismembered him with a bone saw. The assassins then left the country, flying to Cairo and Dubai.
That is the astonishing account of Khashoggi’s disappearance given by Turkish officials to The New York Times and The Washington Post Tuesday.
One official, who likened the incident to a scene from “Pulp Fiction,” said Turkish authorities have a video of Khashoggi’s murder.
That claim was backed up by Kemal Ozturk, a columnist in a pro-government newspaper, who told a pro-government TV network Tuesday: “There is a video of the moment of him being killed.”
Turkish authorities released pictures of 15 men they accuse of being part of a Saudi team
Turkish authorities came to the conclusion on Saturday that Khashoggi was murdered inside the embassy — four days after he disappeared — and informed President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of their suspicions on the same day.
Erdogan has reportedly ordered government officials to brief media outlets on the killing, though none have spoken on the record and Erdogan has not publicly accused Riyadh of the assassination.
A critic of the Saudi regime who lived in fear of retribution from Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, Khashoggi went missing after entering the consulate on Oct. 2 to get documents for his upcoming marriage. His fiancée, Hatice Cengiz, waited outside for him to come out, but he never did.
A Turkish television station broadcast CCTV footage Tuesday showing Khashoggi entering the embassy. Shortly after, a black van was seen driving away from the consulate to the consul’s home a mile away. The vehicle was then parked in a garage.
Further camera footage broadcast Wednesday showed the 15 men entering Istanbul airport, checking into the hotel and leaving the country hours later.
The pro-Erdogan Sabah newspaper published images Wednesday alongside the names of the “assassination squad.” Salah Muhammed Al-Tubaigy, one of the men named, is head of forensic evidence at the Saudi General Security Department.
https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1050751711676166144
Too cute 😍😍
A bunny born with no ears gets knitted replacements https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/12/a-bunny-born-with-no-ears-gets-knitted-replacements-8030943/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter via @MetroUK
The journalist recorded his own murder.
Dayum 😱
https://twitter.com/SiegelForTexas/status/1050888029227896834
Would never have happened without Maddow shining a light on this issue.
https://twitter.com/zacharybasu/status/1050771782712664064
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1050897605419552768
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1050895820101439490
LORD, LET.IT.BE.SO
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1050885470371147776
Thanks for reporting this, SG2. I was hoping Ziegler’s lying *ss would be found guilty. I watched the video clip. I saw him aim and shoot at the young man. He told law enforcement that the shotgun went off accidentally. The video indicated to me that he was thinking about shooting at Brennan Walker a second time after he missed hitting him with the first shot. His wife got her ratchet *ss on the stand and tried to justify her hubby’s actions by saying the child tried to enter their home and saying he didn’t look like an adolescent but a huge black male. I didn’t see that in the video. Brennan knocked and waited for someone to answer the door. At no time did the video show him trying to force his way into the Ziegler home. Jeffrey Ziegler has his highly emotional, fear-filled, lame *ss wife to thank for the time he will spend in prison. I also do not believe Ziegler would have driven Brennan to school if he had answered the door and spoken with him because it’s obvious to me that Ziegler and his wife view being a black male as a major threat.
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1050878488239071233
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1050877777392664576
For your viewing pleasure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTq2YUlqBQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5qG2NSA8x8
https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1050425639260626947
Karen appears to be grieving deeply for her colleague. How about changing that LEDE.
https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1050750543025586176
https://twitter.com/StefanieDekker/status/1050724156747190273
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1050732251556864000
https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1050820495455719425
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1050818388052738048
Take your violent ass and step aside. Violence has no place in our democracy. @realScottWagner should be arrested for threatening a sitting governor. #PAGov
https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1050779638463639552
ANGRY MOB!
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1050815333362225152
https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/1050811850810642432
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUE5XPPGSxg
TEAM HOLDER!
Kick some ASS
This weekend is a great opportunity to find an event near you, plug into a Democratic campaign, and help change the country. Let’s fight the good fight together!
https://events.mobilizeamerica.io/dnc/
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1050761336706277376
Congratulations! So awesome!
https://twitter.com/Kaepernick7/status/1050601031128702976
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/1050779449690599424
https://twitter.com/JohnMorganESQ/status/1050717972518621184
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1050777414790508545
HOW MUCH LONGER, DEAR LORD..HOW MUCH LONGER?
NPR
McConnell Warns Of ‘Scary Prospect’ If GOP Loses Senate Control In Midterms
October 11, 20185:39 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
SNELL: There was a talk at one point in time about, you know, dissecting where these losses were happening for Republicans, particularly in the Hispanic community. Is it time for that to happen again?
MCCONNELL: Well, I don’t think there’s any question that we would like to be doing better than we are with Hispanic Americans, although some of the most prominent Hispanic politicians in America happen to be Republicans. With regard to women voters, we’ve always had something of a gender gap. It’s never been as wide as it is now. We have two great women running for the Senate this year, Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee and Martha McSally in Arizona.
I think we can improve our position with women voters and with Hispanic voters for sure. With African-Americans, we haven’t been able to make much headway, although I think it is noteworthy that Tim Scott is a member of our conference. And he’s the – arguably the most popular politician in South Carolina. So there is hope with African-American voters as well. But I’m more optimistic about closing the gender gap and by improving our position with Hispanics.
Audio
https://www.npr.org/player/embed/656624663/656682232
Transcript:
https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=656624663
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1050774972606676994
https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/1050725921538347008
Good thing the Weather Channel is covering Michael.
MSM is not doing due diligence!
curious, isn’t it?
ABSOLUTELY
https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/1050727970397192193
YES, Why we can’t HAVE NICE THINGS…
OMFG!
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1050763736208891905
Of course 45 knows. Remmber, this turd will do whatever it takes to make those $$$$.
I told y’all BETO was the real deal. We need him so bad. A new beginning for Texas. #BetoForSenate Vote people, VOTE!
https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1050736166474051584
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1050754663321100288
https://twitter.com/tparsi/status/1050744397015523328
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1050755788791209984
This rabid dog cares more about money than human lives. He put little immigrant children in cages. When will this thug be removed from the Oval Office?
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1050419885891829760
https://twitter.com/SiegelForTexas/status/1050757008570376193
Waller County, BOOTS ON THE GROUND, FOREVER. That’s what it takes to combat these MOFOs.
https://twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/status/1050753544972840961
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1050755681794629633
Racist, Jim Crow, Pre Reconstruction fuckery in the 21st century!
The GOP can’t win without literally WIPING OUT THE BLACK & POC VOTERS. Demographic shift in this country has caused them to openly and blatantly destroy our rights to VOTE, to BE.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1050754234126295046
REPOST
https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1050737507971817478
REPOST
Got damn Waller County AGAIN!
YEP!
Word of the Day : October 12, 2018
emblazon: verb im-BLAY-zun
Definition
1 a : to inscribe or adorn with or as if with heraldic bearings or devices
b : to inscribe (something, such as heraldic bearings) on a surface
2 : celebrate, extol
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-of-the-day/emblazon-2018-10-12?pronunciation&lang=en_us&dir=e&file=emblaz02&utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=wotd&utm_content=pron
Democratic aide arrested advocating for voting rights in Texas
Rachel Maddow reviews the history of voting rights battles at Prairie View A&M University in Waller County, Texas, and talks with Mike Siegel, Texas Democratic congressional candidate, and Jacob Aronowitz, Siegel’s campaign field director, about Aronowitz’s arrest after delivering a letter of support for voting rights at the school on Siegel’s behalf.
But MAGA, remember?😕
https://twitter.com/stengel/status/1050538823606775814
I believe it, because nobody in this Administration gets the benefit of the doubt😠😠
https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1050705084177362944
The shadiness of it all. 45 & his reign of terror on our country needs to END
Uh huh
Uh huh 😒 😒
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1050707523840499712
One of my favorite scenes from “The West Wing.”
What ticks me off are the farmers in the Midwest who are still supporting Trump as they are watching their sales decrease. They’re Trump’s tools. They don’t even seem to realize that Trump cares about no one’s financial health except his own. The so-called Evangelicals are going to get hurt bad by Trump, and I have no sympathy for them because after all, it’s what they voted for.
https://twitter.com/Smartypants60/status/1050711276614246401
Seriously, Nancy, at this point, they can call themselves whatever they wish.
JUST FUCKING VOTE, ALREADY.. VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE.
Pure evil 😠
https://twitter.com/MaddowBlog/status/1050536285658591232
This turd, 45, he’s going to pay dearly for this crime. Who asks a 5 year old to sign anything?
I.CANNOT.
https://twitter.com/KristenClarkeJD/status/1050510838979854338
Uh huh 😒 😒
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1050221449565401090
SUE.SUE.SUE
👏👏👏
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1050569467502256133
https://twitter.com/AdrienneKimmell/status/1050453789327667200
https://twitter.com/TheRReport/status/1050450493728788486
Just dust 😥 😥
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/1050057048686092288
https://twitter.com/MegKinnardAP/status/1050444009213218816
https://twitter.com/djchefron/status/1050690599009976320
How tragic!
https://twitter.com/djchefron/status/1050691060878299137
https://twitter.com/djchefron/status/1050691438193729536
They put children in cages.
A rapist on the Supreme Court.
And, WE are supposed to be civil?
Phuck Outta Here 😠 😠
https://twitter.com/brianbeutler/status/1050492144266502145
Get the ENTIRE FUCK OUTTA HERE
https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1050381037187059712
More likely than not, there are secondary gains when some of these white folks cape for black folks or other POC. DON’T.TRUST.IT.
https://twitter.com/B52Malmet/status/1050701871965499392
https://twitter.com/djchefron/status/1050705025759096832
Wednesday, it was 85 degrees.
I sit here this morning in my WINTER coat and a scarf.
This weather is trying to give me pneumonia 😠😠😠
LOL Hi Rikyrah. It’s 36 degrees here in Minneapolis.
*SIGH* 6 degrees cooler than NORMAL. But hey, no CLIMATE CHANGE THO. It’s a hoax.
And it’s raining in Tucson.
Cooler weather here but sunshine.
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄
TGIF, Everyone!