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Celestial
I have not seen any discussion about this story on this forum. Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident journalist residing in self-imposed exile in the US, and writing for the Washington Post, was visiting Turkey with his fiancée when he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document in order to get married. He did not come out again. He is officially missing, but Turkish authorities believe that he was murdered and dismembered in the building, and the Saudis cannot prove that he left the building alive, as they claim.
Jamal Khashoggi - Wikipedia
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jamal+Khashoggi&tbm=nws
The Saudis have received some diplomatic backlash over this, but notice that it is not the equivalent of what, say, Russia would receive if they had acted similarly (such as over the Skripal poisoning in Britain earlier this year), but is instead much watered down. Our leaders are demanding more information before acting, but notice they did not wait for more information in acting against Russia, whose guilt was assumed from the outset (I believe that Russia was guilty, but there were no concerns about reacting with too much haste back then, simply because of whom the likely culprit was).
Jamal Khashoggi - Wikipedia
https://www.google.com/search?q=Jamal+Khashoggi&tbm=nws
The Saudis have received some diplomatic backlash over this, but notice that it is not the equivalent of what, say, Russia would receive if they had acted similarly (such as over the Skripal poisoning in Britain earlier this year), but is instead much watered down. Our leaders are demanding more information before acting, but notice they did not wait for more information in acting against Russia, whose guilt was assumed from the outset (I believe that Russia was guilty, but there were no concerns about reacting with too much haste back then, simply because of whom the likely culprit was).