Saudi killers called Khashoggi 'sacrificial animal' before murder

As the killers waited for the victim, the Saudi autopsy specialist reassured them that dismembering the body would "be easy." "Joints will be separated," he said. "It will not be a problem." Then, as the minutes passed, a Saudi intelligence officer asked whether the "sacrificial animal" had finally arrived.
That "animal" was Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, and the exchange between the Saudi operatives as they waited to ambush and kill him last October was among the many details disclosed on Wednesday in a new United Nations report on the case.
Within a day, the report said, new teams of Saudi operatives were already working diligently to thwart investigators and cleanse the crime scene - the Saudi consulate in Istanbul - including setting a fire in a barrel outside that may have been used to destroy evidence.
The report, by Agnes Callamard, the special rapporteur for the UN human rights agency, relied on extensive access to surveillance by Turkish intel agencies. The report found that "credible evidence" justifies the "investigation of high-level Saudi officials' individual liability, including the crown prince's."
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1. ^{^} Jamal Khashoggi (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
2. ^{^} United Nations (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
3. ^{^} UN human rights (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

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