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Today, Explained

Consequences

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

It is now almost certain that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was brutally murdered at the hands of the Saudi government. As more and more gruesome details emerge, things get worse and worse for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Early on in this episode, you're going to hear about some graphic violence.

0:07.3

If that sort of thing is too much for you, skip ahead to about minute two after the theme

0:12.2

music.

0:13.2

Thanks.

0:14.2

There's supposedly audio from inside the Saudi consulate building, which proves that

0:23.2

Kashoggi was interrogated, tortured and murdered by this alleged Saudi hit squad that had been

0:30.2

sent from ReAD.

0:32.2

Kashoggi showed up for his appointment at 1pm on the day he disappeared.

0:40.6

He was invited into the consul general's office, but while he was in there, he was basically

0:45.8

assaulted by various members of this team.

0:50.1

Very difficult to verify this stuff, but just if it seems to be that he was in the office

0:53.1

he was beaten and tortured.

0:56.2

His fingers might have been cut off before he was actually killed.

1:02.6

He may have been drugged, and then a forensic doctor who was part of this supposed hit squad

1:09.6

then dismembered his body on a table in the consul general's study.

1:16.7

Those body parts were removed from the consulate in diplomatic bags, pen driven from the consulate

1:22.6

around the corner to the consul general's house.

1:26.1

All of the speculation is from what is probably a Turkish surveillance device planted in the

1:33.9

consul general's office.

1:36.7

This hurts of being very wary about releasing this tape in the fact that they've been spying

1:41.6

on a country that is a regional rival, but they're allied on many issues.

1:46.8

They say they've played this tape to their American counterparts to the American diplomats.

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