Three Names Removed From Re-Published US Khashoggi Report, ODNI Spokesperson Reportedly Says
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The intelligence report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) concerning the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi claims that it was Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who approved the assassination.
The ODNI report on Khashoggi killing has been re-published, with its second version altered to exclude three names of men that were initially said to be involved in the operation, CNN reported on Sunday, citing ODNI officials.
According to the report, the change was conducted practically unnoticed. CNN provides two links to the report: the first one, said to be initial, is not working, while the report can be accessed via the second one.
Intelligence report on Khashoggi killing removes names of three suspects
A Turkish forensic police officer carries evidence packs while he leaves the Saudi Arabiain Consulate on 18 October 2018 in Istanbul. [OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images] March 1, 2021 at 2:39 pm
The long-awaited US intelligence report released last Friday about the Saudi government s role in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi has been taken down off the website of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) without explanation. It was replaced with another version that has removed the names of three people who were initially thought to have been complicit in the gruesome assassination over two years ago in Istanbul.
US intelligence officials quietly removed the names of three men from Khashoggi report listed as being complicit in his death
The declassified report made news after it found that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, approved the order to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi
The first link to the report, sent out by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, went dead and has been replaced with a new v2
Abdulla Mohammed Alhoeriny, Yasir Khalid Alsalem and Ibrahim al-Salim were initially listed as having been complicit in Khashoggi s death
ODNI declined to clarify why their names were originally included in the report
The US President Joe Biden’s administration has defended its decision not to apply sanctions on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) for the 2018 killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“We are working to put the US Saudi relationship on the right footing,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said at a news conference in Washington on Monday, defending the Biden administration’s decision not to sanction the crown prince, who is the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia.
The Biden administration is seeking to “recalibrate”, not “rupture” the US-Saudi relationship, Price said.
Had the Biden administration done “something more dramatic and something more drastic” by naming MBS for sanctions, it would “greatly diminish” US influence in Riyadh, Price said.
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