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Conspiracyland

S3E18: Episode 1: "The Henchman"

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4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The episode focuses on the role of Saud al-Qahtani, the right hand man and enforcer of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in the intimidation of Saudi dissidents, including journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Qahtani was known for his ruthlessness: He supervised the torture of a prominent women’s rights activist. He also met and supervised the Tiger Team of assassins who flew to Istanbul in Oct. 2018 to assassinate Khashoggi — a shocking crime that is reconstructed in this episode based on notes of secret Saudi interrogations and an interview with Agnes Callamard, the former United Nations special rapporteur for extrajudicial killings, who investigated the murder.

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0:00.0

And I call them inside the Consulate, I get number from the Internet.

0:10.6

And I call them to ask about Jamal.

0:15.6

And I ask him, I'm waiting in front of the doors.

0:20.3

My name is Hatice, I am fiancé of Jamal, but it's Jamal.

0:30.3

Where is Jamal?

0:32.5

That was the simple plaintiff question that Hatice Cheng is posed to a security guard at the

0:37.0

Saudi Consulate in Istanbul late on the afternoon of October 2, 2018.

0:43.1

A soft spoken Turkish graduate student, Hatice was the fiance of the famed Saudi journalist

0:48.4

Jamal Khashoggi.

0:50.6

She had accompanied him to the Consulate that day and waited patiently for hours while he

0:54.8

went inside and never came out.

0:58.8

Moments after she posed her question, the security guard emerged to question her.

1:03.8

He came out, yeah.

1:06.3

And he asked me who you are again the same questions, but he was really fear in his face.

1:12.6

He shocked and then he told me there is no one inside the Consulate.

1:19.2

What's going through your mind?

1:21.4

Scared, scared a lot.

1:24.6

And then I felt my body, it's cold, colder, colder and my heart was racing.

1:35.0

And then I sat down a little bit to understand what he said.

1:41.6

What can I do now?

1:44.0

What I teach I didn't know is that when Jamal walked into the Consulate that day, a team

1:48.4

of Saudi assassins had been waiting for him, armed with lethal drugs and a bone saw.

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