MISSING WRITER ‘HAD FACE SLICED OFF’ BY SAUDI SPIES Body parts ‘found in consul’s garden’
MISSING journalist Jamal Khashoggi had his fingers and toes chopped off and fed to DOGS while he was STILL ALIVE.
And it happened during a hellish torture session in the basement of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, it was claimed last night.
The Washington Post reporter’s FACE was then SLICED OFF and dumped in the consul general’s garden in a further bid to frustrate identification of his remains.
The latest grisly claims about the fate of the dissident writer came to light as Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan angrily rejected Saudi claims that Khashoggi died in a “fight” inside the consulate.
They come amid reports that parts of the writer’s body including his disfigured face have been found in the grounds of the Saudi consul general’s home in Istanbul.
The discovery was made in the garden of the house but it is not clear how much of his remains were found.
A separate report in Turkey claimed that the body parts were found in a well at the property.
In a speech yesterday, President Erdogan insisted a corpse had not yet been discovered and called on Saudi Arabia to reveal its location.
Saudi Arabia’s consul general Mohammed al-Otaibi fled Istanbul last week before his KILLED: Jamal Khashoggi home was searched by Turkish police.
He was then placed under investigation and relieved of his position, the Jeddah government said in a statement.
The Turkish leader said Khashoggi’s “savage” murder was planned by a Saudi hit squad who disabled CCTV at the Istanbul consulate before killing the writer and giving his body to a local “fixer”.
In an explosive speech, Erdogan said there were strong signs a Saudi team plotted to kill the dissident journalist days before his death on October 2.
Erdogan described it as a “political murder” but stopped short of directly blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – the effective ruler of the kingdom – instead demanding to know “who gave the orders” for the operation.
In response, Saudi King Salman said at a cabinet meeting that those responsible for Khashoggi’s slaying would certainly be held TORTURE: Saudi consulate ( and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan “accountable”.
The grisly murder of the Washington Post contributor has badly damaged the international reputation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who has spearheaded a reform drive in the kingdom.