I'm still waiting for the Americans to present their take on the evidence that will be provided to them.
The leaked information doesn't make sense. Apparently, suitcases were filled with Khasshogi's clothing. Khashoggi did not arrive with any suitcases. So why leave the body on site, only to take care to remove clothing and possessions (but then not dispose of them in the several days following the murder)? Why not use suitcases to remove body parts? Are the Saudis really this bad at assassination? Are the Turk authorities credible investigators? Would a trained assassin dispose of a body in a garden on site? Sounds like the plan of an amateur (like the gay village killer here in Toronto). Didn't the Saudis do any research? They would have found that gardens are a bad place to hide body parts, and a likely first place investigators would look.
And Turkey demanding that Saudis stand trial in Turkey for crimes committed in a Saudi Consulate against a fellow Saudi? What's up with that?
Evidence presented like the Saudi explanations so far?
"He left the Consulate alive, but we have no records, no cameras, you know how it is, so we can't say when.
"Ooops! Actually he suffocated in one of our brawls, no one here pays attention to those. No idea where the body is.
"Ooops! Actually one of the Turkish local staff stealing a carpet thought having a body inside the rug would look more normal. No idea why that body hasn't turned up.
"Ooops! Oh
that body, the one cut up for mulch around the Consul's rose bushes? Trust us, we'll have an explanation for that, too. Some day.
So far the Turks look like pretty competent investigators, the Saudi explanations have been utterly incredible and unworthy of belief since the beginning, and everything we know supports the premise that short-sighted autocrats and their lickspittle functionaries clumsily ordered this assassination without considering the consequences in the larger world outside their closed Kingdom. Much like Donny's best bro' Kim ordering the assassination of his half-brother in Singapore. Donny of course wishes he could do as much with his turbulent journos.
What's up with the Turks demanding the murderers be tried in Istanbul is that without their investigations, ignoring diplomatic extra-territoriality, the Saudis would still be spinning fairy-tales about fistfights and carpet-rolls. Expecting the Saudis to do anything is like expecting Al Capone to bust speakeasies.
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Since yopu mention Bruce McArthur, it would appear he was considerably more competent than the Saudis as it took a good half-dozen years for his crimes and the resulting body-parts to come to notice. And months, not mere days, of police searching. But that may have been the winter weather here.