Edited by: TJVNews.com
It appears that the controversy swirling around the gruesome murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in 2018 is now receiving heightened exposure. The veil of mystery around the life of this man has now been lifted, according to information revealed in a news podcast. Referencing the podcast, the New York Post reported that Khashoggi was living a double life with two different women when he was executed — including one he had secretly married.
In October 2, 2018, Khashoggi was tortured and dismembered at the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul as he visited there to obtain the requisite documents in order to marry his fiancée, Hatice Cengiz.
The Post reported that when speaking with Yahoo News’ “Conspiracyland” Cengiz claimed that she was clueless to the fact that Khashoggi had been in a relationship with a flight attendant named Hanan El-Atr from Egypt. He had also wed her on the sly just four months earlier in Virginia
The investigative podcast reported that Cengiz told them of Khashoggi: “He told me when he proposed to me, there is no one in his life.
The Post reported that Khashoggi had met El-Atr when she was intensely interrogated and detained by Emirati security agents for 10 days. El-Atr claims that the focus of the grilling she endured was about her relationship with Khashoggi. She also claimed that her new husband never mentioned that Cengiz was in his life.
El-Atr asserts that she and the Wasington Post columnist began to form a relationship during her twice a month visits to his home in early 2018 for work related reasons.
At the time of his proposal of marriage, El-Atr said Khashoggi became quite effusive in texts that he sent to her. She said that he texted that she “will be the happiest bride.” It was also revealed in the podcast episode called “A Tale of Two Women” the Washington journalist was open about his emotions when he said, “I throw myself at you, kiss you and delight you. I take out a r watch or a necklace or perfume I bought for you to delight you.”
The Post reported that exactly four months prior to his murder, court records that were reviewed by Yahoo News indicated that Khashoggi and El-Atr tied the knot in an Islamic ceremony performed by an imam in a mosque in northern Virginia on June 2nd.
The nuptials, however, were not legally binding as a civil marriage license was never obtained, according to the Post report. The podcast revealed that Khashoggi purchased two rings for his bride at a local jewelry store and the tab came out to be $2000. They cited receipts from the store in their allegation.
In order to spend time with Cengiz, the philandering Khashoggi began making excuses to his new wife; telling her that he had a sister in Istanbul and needed to make frequent trips there, according to El-Atr’s interview on the podcast.
Khashoggi soon proposed to Cengiz as well. Always the romantic, it was reported that he got down on one knee to Cengiz and bought her jewelry including a necklace and earrings, according to what Cengiz told the podcast.
She added that he not only lied to her but also spewed forth falsehoods to her father when he began to question Khashoggi about his background and his intentions with his daughter.
“My father knows very well the Arabs get married more than once at the same time,” said Cengiz. “And then he asked him, ‘Are you sure you’re not married?’ It’s a little bit of a sensitive point for my father.”
Cengiz told the podcast that her fiancée told her father that he was not married and had been divorced.
Khashoggi’s friends were also out of the loop as it pertained to his personal life as he was not forthcoming about it, according to the Post report.
Mohammed Soltan, an Egyptian American human rights activist who collaborated with Khashoggi said, “If somebody sits across from you and tells you that Jamal told them everything, they are 100 percent lying to you. Jamal compartmentalized, he told different people certain things about his life. He gave nobody a full view of his life.”
Soltan admitted that, “He kept all of it with himself, and he gave different people the things that they needed to know. So, I had no idea about Hanan.”
Khashoggi’s murder was blamed on Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman and US intelligence sources have corroborated that, according to the Post report. Salman and his coterie had done some spying on Khashoggi as he had consistently critiqued the monarch and his rule.
When discovering that his communications has been listened to by the Saudi government, Khashoggi showed great concern. The Post reported that when one of his sources told him that the Saudis had succeeded in their reconnaissance of him, Khashoggi reportedly replied, “Oh gosh … May God help us.”
