{"id":381605,"date":"2018-10-19T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-us-intelligence-increasingly-convinced-saudi-prince-ordered-khashoggis-killing\/"},"modified":"2018-10-19T10:49:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T09:49:04","slug":"prison-planet-com-us-intelligence-increasingly-convinced-saudi-prince-ordered-khashoggis-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-us-intelligence-increasingly-convinced-saudi-prince-ordered-khashoggis-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb US Intelligence \u201cIncreasingly Convinced\u201d Saudi Prince Ordered Khashoggi\u2019s Killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-10-18\/us-intelligence-increasingly-convinced-mbs-ordered-khashoggis-killing\"><strong>Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a><br \/>October 18, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>By now, there\u2019s little doubt that Jamal Khashoggi is dead \u2013 this despite reports that surfaced in the Daily Mail and a handful of other outlets last week claiming that Khashoggi was alive and had been renditioned to Saudi Arabia. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And while the Turkish government has publicly assured the Saudis that they will pursue a cautious, thorough and transparent investigation, even inviting the Saudis to join as a partner in the probe, behind the scenes, Turkish media \u2013 which is tightly controlled by the regime <strong>\u2013 have spread details about a gruesome execution that they say occurred in the office of the (now former) Saudi consul, who was urged to leave the room under threat of reprisal by a member of the hit squad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, a leak last week already suggested that the US knew about the Saudis\u2019 plans to ambush Khashoggi \u2013 though whether US intercepts detailed a murder plot, or merely a plan to interrogate and rendition the government insider-turned critic, remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, the one thing that now appears certain about this situation is that, in a maneuver that\u2019s reminiscent of the de-classification of an intelligence community report blaming Russia for interfering in the 2016 election, the US intelligence community is once again rebelling against the Trump White House \u2013 after Trump suggested that he would do everything he could to preserve the US-Saudi relationship (reportedly fearful of losing Saudi cooperation in a plot to undermine Iran) \u2013 and has effectively joined with the Turks to undermine the rule of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.<\/p>\n<p>The latest example of this appeared in Thursday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/10\/17\/world\/middleeast\/pompeo-khashoggi-murder.html\">New York Times,<\/a> where a trio of national security reporters published a piece claiming that the US intelligence agencies have been <strong>\u201cincreasingly convinced\u201d<\/strong> that MbS directly ordered Khashoggi\u2019s killing \u2013 claims that were, admittedly, not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/us-intelligence-increasingly-convinced-saudi-prince-ordered-khashoggis-killing.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zero HedgeOctober 18, 2018 By now, there\u2019s little doubt that Jamal Khashoggi is dead \u2013 this despite reports that surfaced in the Daily Mail and a handful of other outlets last week claiming that Khashoggi was alive and had been renditioned to Saudi Arabia. And while the Turkish government has publicly assured the Saudis that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}