By Laura King
June 19, 2019 3:30 AM PT
Reporting from Washington —
A new independent United Nations report provides a glimpse of the horrific last moments of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, detailing how the men lying in wait for him at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, coolly discussed how they would dismember his corpse.
“Cut it into pieces,” a man identified as a Saudi pathologist says on audio shared by Turkish authorities, according to the 101-page document released Wednesday. “It will be finished.”
The report by Agnes Callamard, the world body’s special rapporteur for extrajudicial, summary and arbitrary executions, held Saudi Arabia responsible for the Oct. 2 killing. That is a conclusion that has already been broadly reached by the U.S. intelligence community, among others.
But her report cast a chilling new light on the methodical planning by Khashoggi’s assailants that continued up to the moment Khashoggi entered the consulate in hopes of obtaining paperwork he needed to remarry — and amplified calls for greater scrutiny of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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