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affidavit in her asylum case.
Three friends of Elatr’s have giv-
en her lawyers affidavits attest-
ing that Elatr recounted the same
facts to them soon after she was
released.
Then they drove her to the
al-Awir Central Jail, a large high-
-security complex, on the edge of
the city. She was fingerprinted.
Agents took a DNA swab from her
mouth. They photographed her
face from various angles. And
then more intense questions
about Khashoggi began late at
night and into the morning.
She recalled them asking: What
are Jamal’s activities? Who is Ja-
mal’s network? What is Jamal’s
income? How is Jamal’s health?
She answered every question, she
said. She said she told them there
was no network preparing to top-
ple the Persian Gulf monarchies.
Yes, Khashoggi wanted political
activists freed from Saudi prisons.
Yes, he favored democracy and
respect for human rights in the
Arab world. But the royal families
should have roles, too, like those
in Britain and Sweden. When the
agents left her alone, she slid onto
the floor to sleep.
The agents brought her back to
her house after 17 hours, but she
was put under house arrest for 10
days. The interrogations and
months-long stints of house ar-
rests continued over the next year,
as did phone harassment by her
intelligence agency handler, who
called himself Mohammed Abdu,
she said. Elatr’s siblings in Dubai
and Egypt also were interrogated
and had their passports confiscat-
ed when they tried to travel to see
their ailing mother or visit Elatr.
Unbeknown to Elatr, the Emir-
atis had been using Pegasus to try
to spy on her as far back as
November 2017, according to Am-
nesty’s Security Lab. It was a
period of telephonic courtship
between two people always on the
go, as she traveled for the airlines
and he gave speeches and met
associates in Europe and Turkey.
The profilers designed fake
SMS messages to get her to click
on a link and infect her phones:
They tempted her with a flower
bouquet she would receive at
home with one click ...
Dear Hanan, a flower bouquet
was sent to you. Choose delivery
location here: http://bit.ly/ ...
... photos from her sister Mona

Elatr intends to ask Turkish

authorities for his phones. The

authorities have refused to re-

lease them or to publicly share

what they have learned. As rela-

tions warm between Turkey and

Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Elatr

doubts she will ever get answers.

“I feel very devastated that I

might be the tool to watching

Jamal,” Elatr recently told The

Post. “I want to know how many

countries were watching my hus-

band move and what were the

tools used against my husband.”

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tional Airport on an Oct. 20 flight

to Washington, where they

planned to meet again.

On Sept. 30, Khashoggi was in

Turkey arranging to marry Cen-

giz but sent Elatr birthday greet-

ings from two phones. One mes-

sage read:

“Bless you, happy birthday, may

you be well and happy this year.”

On Oct 1, at 2:12 a.m., she

replied:

“I appreciate it a lot and hope

you are well and happy ... from

the plane back to Dubai.”

The next day he was murdered.

be surveilled. Just past midnight

on Sept. 7, their last in-person

meeting, she texted him after she

had landed in New York City.

They planned to stay together at

the Sheraton Hotel.

Hello Jamal. I am on the bus on

the way to the hotel. Where are

you Jamal?

He responded:

In the hotel lobby

Followed by a message about his

impatience in waiting to see her.

Three weeks later she sent him

her flight schedule, which had

her arriving at Dulles Interna-

big week for Elatr and Khashog-

gi. He had proposed to her on

April 3, she said, and gave her an

engagement ring. Pegasus was

used in an attack on one of her

phones again on April 15, 2018,

with an SMS message using the

“myfiles[.]photos” website ad-

dress, the same one the agent

would type into one of the An-

droids a week later.

The couple continued to meet

and communicate by phone, us-

ing multiple new apps that

Khashoggi told Elatr he hoped

would make it harder for him to

if she would click on another link

...

MONA ELATR shared a photo

with you on Photobucket! Click

here to view it and download our

app. http://bit.ly/ ...

... a package waiting at the

office of a common Emirati carri-

er, if she would click on yet

another ...

Dear HANAN, you have a pack-

age from CAIRO via Aramex,

enter PIN 3483 and choose deliv-

ery location on our map: http://

bit.ly/ ...

The beginning of April was a

BULENT KILIC/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

A sign with Jamal Khashoggi’s image is held up during a symbolic funeral prayer for the Saudi journalist at Fatih mosque in Istanbul on Nov. 16, 2018, weeks after his murder.

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