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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalists who contributes opinions columns to the Washington Post, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey several days ago and has not been seen since. Today, Turkish authorities concluded that Khashoggi was murdered inside the consulate by a hit team sent from Saudi Arabia.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/turkey-concludes-saudi-journalist-khashoggi-killed-by-murder-team-sources-say/2018/10/06/31ee4f86-c8d9-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia who has a close relationship with Trump and Kushner, has shown himself to be reckless and willing to take provocative actions. Trump's constant berating of the media as the "enemy of the people" may have been seen as a green light. Certainly the US has shown little to no concern about the mass killing Saudi Arabia is conducting in Yemen so the US is unlikely to care about a single Saudi journalist. 
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Khashoggi has been working for the regime since his early twenties, toeing the line of loyalty to the royals and being a good little boy.  It was only recently that he became critical of MBS, and bad things happened.  It's not that Khashoggi was the voice of freedom; for instance, he applauded the beheading of Sheikh Nimr, the spiritual leader of the Saudi Shia Muslims.  It's that he showed disloyalty after eating off the regime for all these years, plus got tangled in the rivalries between different princes.  Run with the dogs, get fleas.  [/quote]

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