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Suspected Jamal Khashoggi killers cracked ‘chilling’ jokes before killing him

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Updated: October 1st, 2019, 19:10 IST
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London: Saudi operatives suspected of killing journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the country’s Istanbul consulate were heard joking and talking about dismemberment before his arrival, according to secret tapes heard by UN investigators. The tapes were confiscated from the consulate a few months ago.

Helena Kennedy, a British lawyer assisting the UN probe into Jamal Khashoggi’s death, said recordings she had heard from inside the kingdom’s mission in Istanbul referred to the Saudi journalist critic as a ‘sacrificial animal’.

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“There was a discussion about ‘will the body and the hips fit into a bag this way’?” Kennedy told ‘BBC’ television’s ‘Panorama’ documentary programme broadcast Monday night.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a self-styled moderniser, was feted by global leaders and business titans before the gruesome murder October 2 last year. But the global fallout from the killing rendered him a pariah.

Kennedy said Turkish bugs in the Saudi consulate picked up a forensic pathologist suspected of cutting up Khashoggi’s body as saying, “I often play music when I’m cutting cadavers. Sometimes I have a coffee and a cigar at hand.”

The pathologist also said, “It’s the first time in my life that I’ve had to cut pieces on the ground – even if you are a butcher and want to cut, he hangs the animal up to do so.”

Kennedy also disclosed how the banter went on continuously. “They speak about waiting for Khashoggi to arrive and they say, ‘Has the sacrificial animal arrived?’. You could hear them laughing, it’s a chilling business,” Kennedy stated.

Turkey handed over 45 minutes of recordings to the United Nations in order for them to investigate the incident.

Khashoggi visited the consulate to secure the divorce papers needed to marry his fiancée but did not make it out alive.

“There’s a point where you can hear Khashoggi moving from a man who is being a confident person, towards a sense of fear, a sense of rising anxiety, rising terror and then knowing something fatal is going to happen,” Kennedy informed.

UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard, who also heard the tapes, said Khashoggi asked his suspected killers, “Are you going to give me an injection?”, to which they replied ‘yes’.”

Callamard added: “The sound heard after that point indicates that he is being suffocated, probably with a plastic bag over his head.

Shortly afterwards, Kennedy said the recording picked up someone stating, ‘he’s a dog, put this on his head, wrap it, wrap it’. “One can only assume that they had removed his head,” she explained.

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