Washington
\nUS President Donald Trump has said he had spoken with the CIA chief on the agency\u2019s assessment of the killing of Jamal Khashoggi and that there will be a \u201cvery full report\u201d by Tuesday, amid reports that the CIA had held powerful the Saudi crown prince responsible for the murder of the dissident journalist.<\/p>\n
The death of 59-year-old Khashoggi, a onetime insider turned critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and a resident of the US, has spurred a wave of international anger against Saudi Arabia and its ruler.<\/p>\n
In an interaction with reporters in California on Saturday, Trump said that he spoke with Central Intelligence Agency Director Gina Haspel, who has been studying this case very closely.<\/p>\n
Asked about reports that the CIA had assessed involvement by the crown prince, the president said, \u201cthey haven\u2019t assessed anything yet. It\u2019s too early. That was a very a premature report.\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ll be having a very full report over the next two days, probably Monday or Tuesday,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
He then said more definitely that there would be \u201ca report on Tuesday.\u201d The report will address what \u201cwe think the overall impact was and who caused it, and who did it.\u201d
\n\u201cIn the meantime we\u2019re doing things to some people that we know for a fact were involved and we\u2019re being very tough on a lot of people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork for his marriage.<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia had offered a series of contradictory explanations for Khashoggi\u2019s death. After repeated denials, Saudi Arabia finally admitted Khashoggi had been murdered at the compound but blamed it on a \u201crogue\u201d operation.<\/p>\n
The CIA found that 15 Saudi agents flew on government planes to Istanbul and carried out the killing at the Saudi consulate, the report said, adding that it could complicate President Trump\u2019s efforts to preserve US ties with one of the closest American allies in the region.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accepted position is that there is no way this happened without him being aware or involved,\u201d a US official familiar with the CIA\u2019s conclusions, told the daily.<\/p>\n
Fatimah Baeshen, a spokeswoman for the Saudi Embassy in Washington, said that the claims in the CIA\u2019s \u201cpurported assessment are false. We have and continue to hear various theories without seeing the primary basis for these speculations.\u201d According to the report, it is CIA assessment that the crown prince who is the defacto ruler of the country would survive the crisis.<\/p>\n
Officially Saudi Arabia has blamed the brutal murder of Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to rogue elements. Khashoggi was forcibly restrained and injected with a large amount of a drug resulting in an overdose that led to his death, alleged the Saudi prosecutors, who has sought death penalty for 11 of its officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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