Trump says it looks like the Saudi journalist Khashoggi is dead

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Trump says it looks like the Saudi journalist Khashoggi is dead







WASHINGTON / ISTANBUL (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he presumed that journalist Jamal Khashoggi is dead and that the US response to Saudi Arabia will be "very serious", but he still wanted to get to the bottom of what happened exactly. 

In Istanbul, Turkish investigators searched for the second time at the Saudi Arabian consulate where Khashoggi, a resident of the United States and Washington Post columnist who was a strong critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, disappeared on October 2, looking for clues about an incident that caused an incident. international protest. 

Trump recognized for the first time that Khashoggi had probably been killed. 

"It certainly looks that way to me, it's very sad," Trump told reporters before boarding Air Force One on a political trip. 

Trump spoke hours after receiving an update from Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the results of Pompeo's emergency talks in Saudi Arabia and Turkey. 

In an interview with the New York Times on Thursday, Trump also expressed confidence in intelligence reports suggesting a high-level Saudi role in the alleged killing of Khashoggi. However, Trump said it was still "a little early" to draw definitive conclusions about who could have been behind. 

Pompeo told reporters after his meeting that he advised Trump that Saudi Arabia should be given a few more days to complete its investigation into the disappearance of Khashoggi. Turkish officials have said they believe that the Saudi journalist was killed at the consulate and that his body was cut and removed. 

Trump said he was waiting for the results so that "we can get to the bottom of this very soon" and that at some point he would make a statement about it. 

Asked what the consequences would be for Saudi Arabia, Trump said: "Well, it will have to be very severe, I mean, it's bad, bad, but we'll see what happens." 

Saudi Arabia has denied its participation in the disappearance. 

In addition, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin abandoned plans to attend an investor conference in Riyadh, calling into question the high-profile event. 

The United States considers Riyadh a key player in efforts to contain Iran's regional influence and a key global oil source, and Trump has shown no inclination to impose harsh punishment on the Saudis. 

Referring to the Saudis, Pompeo said he told Trump "we should give them a few more days to complete" their investigation to get a full understanding of what happened, "at which point we can make decisions about how, or if - the United States should respond to the incident surrounding Mr. Khashoggi. " 









Forensic experts from the Turkish police and Saudi officials are seen in the backyard of the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on October 18, 2018. REUTERS / Huseyin Aldemir



In questioning whether the United States will respond or not, Pompeo reflected the internal struggle between Trump and his national security advisers on what to do if the Saudi leaders should be blamed for what happened to Khashoggi. 

"I think it is also important that we all remember: since 1932 we have a long strategic relationship with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia," Pompeo told reporters after meeting with Trump, and also said that Saudi Arabia is "an important partner against the terrorism". . " 

A US government source said US intelligence agencies are increasingly convinced of the Crown Prince's guilt in the operation against Khashoggi, which they believe resulted in his death. 

Mnuchin became the last Western official to leave the Riyadh investment conference scheduled for October 23 and 25, and joined a list of international officials and business executives. Earlier on Thursday, government ministers from France, Britain and the Netherlands also withdrew. 

The way in which Western allies deal with Riyadh will depend on the degree to which they believe that responsibility for Khashoggi's demise falls on Prince Mohammed and the Saudi authorities. 

Trump, who has forged closer ties with Saudi Arabia and the 33-year-old prince, previously speculated without providing evidence that "murderous criminals" could be responsible. 









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CONSULTATION SEARCH 

Turkish investigators left the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul early Thursday after searching the building and consular vehicles, a Reuters witness said. They used bright lights to illuminate the garden. Previously, they spent almost nine hours in the residence of the Saudi consul along with Saudi researchers. 

The Turkish search, which used an unmanned aircraft, included the roof and the garage. 

The official Sabah newspaper published a series of photos of a man he identified as traveling with the Saudi Crown Prince. Time-stamped photos showed the man outside the building of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul the morning Khashoggi disappeared, Sabah said. 

Khashoggi went to the consulate in search of documents for his next planned marriage and has not been seen since. 

The incident poses a dilemma for the United States and other Western nations, which have lucrative businesses with the authoritarian kingdom and count on it as a main ally of the Middle East and an opponent of its common enemy, Iran. Saudi Arabia also exerts significant influence as the world's leading oil exporter. 

Four groups of Western rights, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, urged Turkey to ask the United Nations to investigate the disappearance of Khashoggi. 

"UNITED NATIONS." Participation is the best guarantee against Saudi money laundering or other governments' attempts to sweep the problem under the rug to preserve lucrative business ties with Riyadh, "said Robert Mahoney, deputy executive director of the Committee for Protection. of Journalists. 

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire and British Trade Minister Liam Fox withdrew from the Riyadh investment summit, citing concerns over Khashoggi's disappearance. 

Dutch Finance Minister Wopka Hoekstra also scrapped plans to attend, while the Dutch government canceled a trade mission to Saudi Arabia next month. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow did not have enough information about the disappearance of Khashoggi to justify the damage to ties with Riyadh. His government will wait for the details, Putin said at a forum in the town of Sochi on the Black Sea. 





Additional reports by Ezgi Erkoyun, Umit Ozdal, Yesim Dikmen and Tuvan Gumrukcu in Istanbul, John Irish and Sudip Kar-Gupta in Paris, Bart Meijer in Amsterdam, Alistair Smout and Kylie MacLellan in London and Susan Heavey in Washington; Written by Steve Holland, Daren Butler and Stephen Kalin; Edited by Angus MacSwan, Will Dunham and Yara Bayoumy





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