Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said on Sunday the kingdom did not know where the body of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi was, despite admitting to the killing and calling it a “tremendous mistake.”
Speaking in an interview on Fox News, Jubeir said the Saudi leadership initially believed Khashoggi had left its consulate in Istanbul, where he was last seen on October 2.
But following “reports we were getting from Turkey,” Saudi authorities began an investigation, which discovered he was killed in the diplomatic mission. “We don’t know, in terms of details, how. We don’t know where the body is,” Jubeir said, adding the Saudi public prosecutor had put out orders to detain 18 individuals, “the first step in a long journey.”
