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NEW: @WSJ has seen the classified CIA assessment on Khashoggi. Signals intelligence shows that the Saudi crown prince sent at least 11 messages to his closest advisor who oversaw the team that killed Khashoggi in the hours leading up to the operation. wsj.com/articles/cia-i…
The Saudi leader also in Aug. 2017 told associates that if his efforts to persuade Khashoggi to return to Saudi Arabia weren’t successful, “we could possibly lure him outside Saudi Arabia and make arrangements,” according to the assessment wsj.com/articles/cia-i…
The previously unreported excerpts say the CIA has “medium-to-high confidence” that MBS “personally targeted” Khashoggi and “probably ordered his death.” It added: “To be clear, we lack direct reporting of the Crown Prince issuing a kill order.” wsj.com/articles/cia-i…
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NEW: @WSJ has seen the classified CIA assessment on Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi Crown Prince MBS sent at least 11 messages to his closest adviser [Saud al-Qahtani], who oversaw the kill team, in the hours before & after the journalist’s death in OCT.
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