Full transcript reveals slain journalist Khashoggi's last words: CNN
By Emily Birnbaum - 12/09/18 05:48 PM EST
A full transcript of slain Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi's final moments reveals that he told his Saudi attackers "I can't breathe," before a team of agents dismembered him, a source who reviewed the transcript told CNN.
Khashoggi, whose October death at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul set off an international diplomatic crisis, protested and gasped for air as he was abducted and killed by a group of Saudi agents, some of whom have been identified as top Saudi government officials, the source told CNN.
"You are coming back," a man identified as former Saudi diplomat and intelligence official Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb told Khashoggi, CNN reported. Mutreb intercepted Khashoggi in front of the consulate.
"You can't do that," Khashoggi replied. "People are waiting outside."
According to the source, citing the transcript, a group of people then began to attack Khashoggi and he gasped for air.
"I can't breathe," Khashoggi said.
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