Three others have been jailed for what Saudi authorities insists was a rogue operation.

The killing, dismemberment and disposal of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October last year is the grissly stuff of horror movies.

It has done irreparable damage to the reputation of Saudi Arabia. Certainly as much harm as the 9/11 attacks on Manhattan and Washington by Saudi-trained terrorists.

Many major newspapers and analysts say it could never have happened without approval from the very top.

That’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

His closest advisor Saud al-Qahtani was investigated but not charged.

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The attacks in Somalia, that left 25 people wounded, is being blamed on the Al Shabaab terror group.

The first of the bombs exploded at military checkpoint near the Presidential Palac which a frequent target of jihadis.

Nine people were killed in that blast.

A second explosion  appears to have killed the suicide bomber and his accomplice near the airport which houses the offices of a number of diplomatic missions.

Al Shabaab is responsible for the truck bomb in October  2017 that killed more than 500 people.

It was the deadliest extremist operation  since the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.

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