INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Sunday issued an appeal for the return of their father's body and said they wanted to return to Saudi Arabia
to bury him.In an interview with CNN, Salah and Abdullah Khashoggi said that without their father's body, their family is unable to grieve
and deal with the emotional burden of their father's death."It's not a normal situation, it's not a normal death at all
All what we want right now is to bury him in Al-Baqi (cemetery) in Medina (Saudi Arabia) with the rest of his family," Salah Khashoggi
said."I talked about that with the Saudi authorities and I just hope that it happens soon."Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist
critical of the Saudi government and its de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was killed after he entered the Saudi consulate in
that his death was unintended
Turkish officials and some U.S
lawmakers have said that Crown Prince Mohammed ordered the murder, an allegation that Riyadh denies.Khashoggi's body has not been
with the crown prince and King Salman to receive condolences along with other Khashoggi family members
Salah departed for Washington a day later, and his CNN interview was his first public comments since then.He said King Salman assured him
that those involved in Jamal Khashoggi's murder would be brought to justice."We just need to make sure that he rests in peace," Salah
Khashoggi said of his father
"Until now, I still can't believe that he's dead
It's not sinking in with me emotionally," he said, adding that there has been a lot of "misinformation" about the circumstances of the
death.Salah said that charges that his father was a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood organization were not true.Asked how Khashoggi
should be remembered, Salah replied, "As a moderate man who has common values with everyone a man who loved his country, who believed so
much in it and its potential.""Jamal was never a dissident
He believed in the monarchy, that it is the thing that is keeping the country together
And he believed in the transformation that it is going through."(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by
TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
