The Saudi forensic expert who arrived in Turkey with a saw

The Khashoggi murder explanation/clarification is going down a very familiar path. Something went terribly wrong, we're so sorry, Khashoggi was only supposed to be questioned and then asked to return to Saudi Arabia for rehabilitation. But our people overstepped the mark, all unplanned, and they will be held responsible. No one back in Riyadh had any inkling of what was going on in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Please believe us! BUT what about the man with the saw? What about the Saudi forensic specialist whose carry-on baggage in the Gulf Stream jet that flew in the day before the killing of the dissident journalist contained a very very sharp saw. Now why would he want such an implement if the plan all along was to get Khashoggi to return in one of the two Gulf Stream jets? The man with the saw has been named in the papers but I'm going to be a little more cautious here. Nevertheless, the brutal narrative courtesy of all sorts of Turkish media outlets includes a scene in which the man with the saw starts cutting up Khashoggi's body on a table while music is played to drown out the gruesome sounds. A seven-minute dismembering job, then all the limbs etc into black bags and taken via a back exit to the Saudi consul's residence. All very neat and tidy. But please, don't give me the "it all went wrong" story. This appalling episode involved 15 Saudi gentlemen, some of them if not all of them, known to be from Saudi security services. Rogue they may be, as Trump claims, but someone equally rogue sent them to Istanbul, and included the man with the saw to carry out whatever orders were given in Riyadh. Perhaps this was an Archbishop Thomas Becket situation. In 1170 four palace knights overheard King Henry 11 say: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" The four knights rode to Canterbury Cathedral and slaughtered Becket at the altar. But this modern day slaughter was not a spur-of-the-moment situation. It was planned, the Gulf Streams were fuelled up well in advance, the team of 15 was gathered and given their orders and the man with the saw was told exactly what was expected of him. The only similarity is that Becket and Khashoggi were brutally murdered for being disloyal to the high-ups in their respective nations.