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THE DEATH OF JAMAL KHASHOGGI AND ITS MESSAGE ABOUT THE GEOPOLITICAL CLIMATE WE LIVE IN

By now, there can be little doubt in any realistic person’s mind that Saudi-born journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi was lured to the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where he was briefly tortured and interrogated before being brutally murdered by agents of the Saudi government, his body apparently later cut up and removed from the consulate in several containers and disposed of in an as yet undisclosed location. Jamal Khashoggi The original Saudi government narrative that Khashoggi visited the consulate and then left was swiftly exposed by Turkish authorities as a lie, when they publicly declared that they had security camera footage and audio that proved the Washington Post editorialist had been murdered inside the consulate. The Saudis didn’t bother to ask how Turkey’s Erdogan government had come by this evidence. It was obvious that they had it and that the jig was up regarding the lie about Khashoggi’s having left the Saudi diplomatic mission. It was a story that wasn’