{"id":383033,"date":"2018-10-31T02:27:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-i-had-no-prior-knowledge-of-khashoggi-plot-hunt\/"},"modified":"2018-10-31T02:27:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T01:27:30","slug":"presstv-i-had-no-prior-knowledge-of-khashoggi-plot-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-i-had-no-prior-knowledge-of-khashoggi-plot-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-I had no prior knowledge of Khashoggi plot: Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Britain&#8217;s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Tuesday he had no previous knowledge of the Saudi murder plot against journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Oct. 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Khashoggi, who had been an outspoken critic of the Saudi crown prince, was killed in Saudi Arabia\u2019s consulate in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia initially denied all knowledge of the journalist\u2019s fate but the Saudi public prosecutor has since described it as premeditated murder organized by \u201crogue agents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Reports on Sunday suggested that MI6 had discovered the plot and had warned Saudi Arabia to cancel the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Foreign Secretary, speaking in the House of Commons, denied he had any knowledge \u2014 but refused to speculate on what was known by British intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Hunt was forced to clarify that he had \u201cno prior knowledge\u201d of the plot after media reports suggested the British intelligence services had been made aware three weeks before the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The media report said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/10\/30\/578582\/UK-Foreign-Secretary-to-MPs-I-had-no-prior-knowledge-of-Khashoggi-plot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Tuesday he had no previous knowledge of the Saudi murder plot against journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Oct. 2. Khashoggi, who had been an outspoken critic of the Saudi crown prince, was killed in Saudi Arabia\u2019s consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia initially denied all knowledge of the journalist\u2019s fate [&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-383033","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\/383033","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=383033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}