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EMRAH GUREL I Associated Press
Activists, protesting the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi, hold a candlelight vigil outside Saudi Arabia’s
consulate in Istanbul, Thursday, Oct. 25.
Turkey demands
return of suspects in
Khashoggi killing
BY SUZAN FRASER AND
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA
Associated Press
ANKARA, Turkey -
Turkey on Friday intensi
fied its demands for Saudi
Arabia to extradite 18 sus
pects in the killing of jour
nalist Jamal Khashoggi, a
call likely to be met with
resistance from the king
dom and could escalate
tensions between the U.S.-
allied regional powers.
Khashoggi’s Turkish
fiancee, meanwhile, gave
an anguished and tearful
TV interview in which she
said she keeps asking her
self if she had missed signs
and should have prevented
him from entering the
Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
on Oct. 2 — questions she
says she cannot answer.
The Istanbul chief pros
ecutor’s office submitted
a request for Saudi Arabia
to hand over the suspects in
the killing, and the Turkey’s
Foreign Ministry will for
mally notify the kingdom,
Turkey’s state-run Anadolu
news agency reported. The
Saudi government has said
it arrested and would itself
punish 18 people for what it
described as a rogue opera
tion by officials who killed
Khashoggi in the consulate.
“We expect our request
(for the suspects’) return
to be fulfilled because this
atrocious event took place
in Turkey,” said Turkish
Justice Minister Abdul-
hamit Gul.
Saudi Arabia has
returned suspects to Tur
key before. The stakes are
higher in the Khashoggi
case, however, as some of
those implicated are close
to Crown Prince Moham
med bin Salman, the king
dom’s heir apparent whose
condemnation of the killing
failed to ease suspicions
that he was involved.
Turkish prosecutors
want the suspects to face
prosecution for “premedi
tated killing executed with
fiendish sentiments or by
causing torment,” accord
ing to the Anadolu agency.
“The reasoning behind
the extradition request is
that Jamal Khashoggi was
murdered in Turkey by
Saudi nationals who trav
eled to Turkey for this spe
cific purpose,” a Turkish
official said, speaking on
condition of anonymity.
Turkey’s judicial system
is better equipped to serve
the cause of justice in this
case, the official said, add
ing: “The court proceed
ings in Turkey will be open
to international observers
in order to ensure the great
est level of transparency.”
Turkey alleges a
15-member hit squad was
sent to Istanbul to kill the
journalist, a onetime Saudi
insider who became a critic
of Prince Mohammed and
was a columnist for The
Washington Post. Turkish
President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan has said the three
others in the group of 18
detained in Saudi Arabia
were consulate employees.
Erdogan said Friday that
Turkey would reveal more
evidence about the killing
but was not in any rush to
do so, indicating that Turk
ish authorities will method
ically increase pressure on
Saudi Arabia even as the
kingdom floats conflicting
statements in a vain and
often clumsy attempt to
end the crisis.
“There is no point in
being too hasty,” Erdogan
said to ruling party leaders.
He added the Saudis
who killed Khashoggi must
reveal the location of his
body.
Saudi prosecutors said
evidence from Turkey indi
cates that the killing was
premeditated, a change
from previous Saudi state
ments seeking to dodge
responsibility for a crime
that caused global outrage.
Hours after Erdogan’s
speech, Khashoggi’s
fiancee Hatice Cengiz
told HaberTurk, a Turk
ish news channel, about
her pain since he disap
peared after entering the
consulate.
“I found myself in a
darkness I cannot express, ”
Cengiz said. She described
how she had accompa
nied Khashoggi, 59, to the
consulate and waited out
side while, she thought, he
was getting paperwork for
their planned marriage. He
never came out.
“I still have questions
that I cannot answer,” said
Cengiz, who shed tears
at times in the interview.
“Did I miss something? Did
I not notice something?”
Cengiz said she has
not received any con
dolence call from Saudi
officials after the death of
Khashoggi, who left Saudi
Arabia for self-imposed
exile in the United States a
year ago.
Prince Mohammed has
condemned the killing, but
critics suspect a cover-up
designed to protect him,
noting that he has tight
control over the day-to-day
affairs of the kingdom.
Associated Press
This Nov. 1,2017, photo shows a van with windows covered with stickers in Well, Fla. Federal authorities took Cesar Sayoc into
custody on Friday, Oct. 26, and confiscated his van, which appears to be the same one, at an auto parts store in Plantation,
Fla., in connection with the mail-bomb scare that has targeted prominent Democrats from coast to coast.
Cesar Sayoc arrested in connection with series of explosive
devices sent to prominent critics of President Donald Trump
BY MICHAEL BALSAMO,
ERIC TUCKER AND
COLLEEN LONG
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Fed
eral authorities Friday cap
tured a Florida man with a
criminal history and a fervor
for President Donald Trump
and accused him of sending
at least 13 mail bombs to
prominent Democrats, cap
ping a nationwide search
in a case that spread fear of
election-season violence with
little precedent in the U.S.
Justice Department offi
cials announced five federal
charges against Cesar Sayoc,
56, of Aventura, Florida, and
revealed that DNA and a fin
gerprint found on an enve
lope package helped them
identify the suspect after
a five-day, coast-to-coast
investigation. Even as he was
arrested and charged, inves
tigators scrutinized new sus
picious packages believed to
be tied to his plot.
FBI officials did not dis
close a motive, although
Attorney General Jeff Ses
sions suggested politics may
have played a role, noting
Sayoc appeared to be a
“partisan.” Those who saw
him in the neighborhood,
unmistakable in a white
van plastered with Trump’s
image and political stickers,
described him as unsettling
and troubled.
Sayoc’s social media
profiles portray a deeply
disaffected conservative
who trafficked in online
conspiracy theories, parody
accounts and name-calling.
He called a Florida school
shooting survivor a “fake
phony,” peddled theories
about George Soros, the bil
lionaire political donor tar
geted this week by a package
bomb and denigrated other
Democrats who were later
the intended recipients of
explosive packages.
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Sayoc first registered as a
Republican voter just ahead
of the March 2016 Repub
lican primary and quickly
identified himself as a proud
Trump supporter, tweeting
and posting on Facebook vid
eos that appear to show him
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Sayoc’s arrest Friday was
a major breakthrough in the
nationwide manhunt follow
ing the discovery of explo
sive devices — none of which
detonated — addressed to
prominent Democrats and
other frequent targets of
conservative ire, including
former President Barack
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dent Joe Biden, Hillary Clin
ton and the cable network
CNN. On Friday, new pack
ages addressed to New Jer
sey Sen. Cory Booker and
former National Intelligence
Director James Clapper
were intercepted — both
similar to those containing
pipe bombs discovered ear
lier in the week. Investiga
tors in California scrutinized
a package sent to Demo
cratic Sen. Kamala Harris,
her office said, and one sent
to Tom Steyer, a billion
aire businessman who has
campaigned for months for
Trump’s impeachment.
The mail bombs, coming
barely a week before mid
term elections, sparked a
national conversation about
the hard-edged political cli
mate and Trump’s role in
fanning the flames. The pres
ident has branded the media
the “enemy of the people”
and hurled personal insults
at others targeted in the plot.
Shortly after Sayoc was
detained, Trump declared
that “we must never allow
political violence to take root
in America” and that Ameri
cans “must unify.”
Speaking to reporters Fri
day evening before leaving
for a political rally in North
Carolina, Trump said he
knows Sayoc supported him
but that he himself “bears
no blame.” Hours earlier
Trump complained via tweet
that “this ‘bomb’ stuff” was
taking attention away from
the election and that critics
were wrongly blaming him.
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