“The body is heavy. If we take plastic bags and cut it into pieces, it will be finished.”
“Did the sacrificial animal arrive?”
“He has arrived.”
“The pressure increased, I believe in 2014 or 2015, when he was banned from writing. The Ministry of Information decided to publish the letter banning Jamal from writing, and I think he found that very, very insulting. You should remember that Jamal was banned from tweeting and writing articles while he is in Saudi Arabia because he stood for the school.”
“After he left Saudi Arabia, we met together and we spoke and he was very supportive of the concept of democracy and the freedom and reconciliation, and we did work together on that kind of thing. So I think Muhammad bin Salman is doing the right things by introducing Vision 2030; now he just has to do it right.”
“He wasn’t very happy. He was worried. He one time told me his two sons complained to him that they are held hostage because of him. They couldn’t travel. He said they were both bankers and their work required them to travel and they could not leave the kingdom. Their passports were confiscated and they were blaming him, and that really caused lots of guilt. He told me he felt guilty that he’s causing their stress and suffering.”
“I returned to writing and tweeting. Grateful to His Highness the Minister of Information for his kind efforts, gratitude and loyalty to the Royal Crown Prince. No free pen is broken and no tweeter is silenced under his reign.”
“For the Saudis, I think this was the scariest thing: the guy writes for a paper that is read all over the world, that is read by decision makers in the US.”
“As we speak today, there are intellectuals and journalists jailed. Now nobody will dare to speak and criticize the reform.”
“The crown prince’s trust in him was unshakable and the doors of the royal court were open to him whenever he decided to return.”
“Jamal knows the Saudi regime very well. He has been there. He has been serving in the embassy in London, the Saudi embassy in Washington. He was the editor of Al-Watan newspaper, and I think his knowledge of the regime added credibility to his profession as a journalist when he spoke out.”
“Jamal spoke to me two days before his murder that he is working with the friends to establish a foundation for democracy in the Arab world, promoting the culture of democracy amongst the youth people and also creating some form of societal reconciliation.”
“Jamal was full of hope because he is about to get married. He wanted to establish a new life and he was telling me about the flat that he bought, the furniture that he is going to put in the flat, and the fact that he’s going to the consulate to get some documents.”
“You are 10 years younger than I have seen you before because you have a new love story.”
“You know, we need that so we may continue our struggle for the new generation.”
“I was one of the last people to meet him before he disappeared. He was here with me in this office. We spent the day together. We had lunch together and then he went to the airport.”
“I followed him the following day to Istanbul because he was supposed to appear on my TV show. But by the time I arrived in Istanbul, he was gone. And I can tell you that when we met here, Jamal seemed quite comfortable and excited about the prospects of marriage. We discussed a project he had in mind and that is to set up a website to publish translations of reports and articles and analysis on the economic situation in Saudi Arabia and the region.”
“What I know is that he went in and left a few minutes, maybe an hour later. Yes, he is not inside the consulate. If he were in Saudi Arabia, I would know it.”
“Unless Kingdom of Saudi Arabian authorities clearly show that he has left the consulate, all the responsibilities belong to the Saudi Arabian authorities.”
“Mr. Khashoggi has been there to the consulate and this is a very detailed plan and action of Turkish intelligence agency. They are trying to blame Saudi Arabia and the other such kind of ridiculous story, fabricated stories.”
“Something is going wrong because if someone is missing in your consulate, you have to prove that he went out of consulate with the video recordings. But why you would have a CCTV system that isn’t working or rather doesn’t record seems impossible to believe. The only reason why you would not have a recording system is lack of money, and this isn’t something that afflicts Saudi Arabia for sure.”
“Just spoke with the King of Saudi Arabia. The King firmly denied any knowledge of it. He didn’t really know, maybe… I don’t want to get into his mind, but it sounded to me like maybe these could have been rogue killers, who knows?”
“It is possible to fully clean a premises of forensic evidence, but what you then leave is evidence that you have fully cleaned, and therefore that also again is can be used and often is used as circumstantial evidence against the accused person.”
“What I know is that he went in and left a few minutes, maybe an hour later. Yes, he is not inside the consulate. If he were in Saudi Arabia, I would know it.”
“There’s something you’ll be surprised to hear me say, that there’s something really terrible and disgusting about that if that were the case. So we’re going to have to see. We’re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment. If they go on to claim that these people were acting without the authority of the Saudi government, then of course they can prove that by relinquishing the diplomatic immunity of these people and extraditing them to Turkey for trial. But if that happens, of course, there is a very big risk that those people who are put on trial for this capital offense will name the people that made the decisions, and that may not be convenient, of course, to the Saudi government.”
“Of course, the governments in Britain, America would like to draw a line under this and pretend it hadn’t happened. But I think public pressure is then forcing the media to then force the governments in the West to actually, at least in the short term, appear to be taking action, and that of course is an error of judgment.”
“From the Saudi perspective, of course, later on they had to increase the tone because of the pressure inside the country, because the media, because of the Republicans and the Democrats in the Congress, but they maintained the same strategy: try to find an exit even if you increase the rhetoric.”
“After all those forensic investigation, Mr. Erdogan made a couple of telephone calls with international leaders including the King Salman of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and after that the Saudi Arabia had realized that the fabricated story of Khashoggi has left the consulate is incredible. So they accepted that Mr. Khashoggi has been killed inside the consulate.”
“I want to return to the future.”
“We will have to take you back. There is an order from the Interpol. The Interpol requested you to be sent back. We are coming to get you.”
“There isn’t a case against me. I notified some people outside. They were waiting for me.”
“Did he sleep? He raises his head. Keep pushing. Push here. Don’t remove your hand. Push it.”
“It’s scary to wear the clothes of a person who was killed 20 minutes ago.”
“I didn’t know Mr. Khashoggi. I believe that he will take great hope in the fact that his execution will never be repeated, including by the State of Saudi Arabia, to which he was so attached.”
