Jamal Khashoggi's last words were 'I'm suffocating'

The last words Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi uttered before his death inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul last month were “I’m suffocating,” according to a senior Turkish journalist with knowledge of an unpublished recording of the incident.
In an interview with Al Jazeera published Sunday, Nazif Karaman, the head of investigations at Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah, said Mr. Khashoggi was suffocated with a plastic bag and that his death took about seven minutes.
Mr. Karaman also recalled Mr. Khashoggi’s final words: “I’m suffocating. Take this bag off my head. I’m claustrophobic.”
Turkish government recordings of the episode on Oct. 2 have been the source of intense speculation ever since rumors of recordings surfaced last month, including that CIA Director Gina Haspel listened to the material while visiting Turkey last month.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan this weekend made the first public acknowledgment that recordings exist and announced that officials from the U.S., Saudi Arabia, Germany, France and Britain have listened to the recordings

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