{"id":19038,"date":"2018-10-19T05:25:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T05:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19038"},"modified":"2018-10-19T05:25:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T05:25:47","slug":"saudi-ex-diplomat-pivotal-in-alleged-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19038","title":{"rendered":"Saudi ex-diplomat &#8216;pivotal&#8217; in alleged killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Ankara (CNN)<\/cite>Saudi intelligence officer and former diplomat Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb played a &#8220;pivotal role&#8221; in the apparent assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a source familiar with the Turkish investigation has told CNN.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The source said that Mutreb was fully aware of &#8220;the plot&#8221; of the operation.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Mutreb, who was the first secretary at the Saudi embassy in London and has been described as a colonel in Saudi intelligence, is closely connected to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. &#8220;He was seconded to an elite protection brigade within the Royal Guard to serve as the personal security force of [the crown prince],&#8221; a Saudi source told CNN.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankara (CNN)Saudi intelligence officer and former diplomat Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb played a &#8220;pivotal role&#8221; in the apparent assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a source familiar with the Turkish investigation has told CNN.The source said that Mutreb was fully aware of &#8220;the plot&#8221; of the operation.Mutreb, who was the first secretary at the Saudi embassy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}