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On October 2, 2018 Jamal Ahmad Khashoggi entered the Saudi Arabian embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. Intending to marry, he was lured with the prospect of being provided some paperwork. He never left the embassy alive.
Instead, inside the embassy, he was ambushed, suffocated and dismembered by a 15-man Saudi hit squad.
Why?
Khashoggi, a former Washington Post journalist and dissident, had the bad judgment to write some unflattering articles about Saudi Arabia. For that he paid with his life.
There are other similar stories. His is the most prominent.
A short video of details is available here:
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the putative leader of Saudi Arabia, denied knowledge of this heinous crime. He announced as much in an interview with Norah O’Donnell, reporter for the CBS news program “60 MINUTES.”
He promised to bring the perpetrators to justice, much as O J Simpson promised to find the real killers of Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in the…
