Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has "authorized" an operation to "capture or kill" dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
This was stated by a US intelligence report released by the Biden administration after declassifying it, according to American media reports.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman viewed dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi as a threat to the kingdom and broadly supported the use of violence if necessary to silence him.
The US intelligence report on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi lists 21 people who the 007 Americans consider with "high confidence" to be accomplices or responsible for the dissident journalist's death on behalf of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
In the report on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, US intelligence has "a high conviction" about the responsibilities of the individuals involved in the death of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi but is unable to say whether they knew in advance that the operation would end with his killing.