For many westerners who keep up with current events, Jamal Khashoggi is remembered mostly as a victim, a name from headlines two years back.
The Saudi-born journalist, at the time of his death a columnist for The Washington Post and an American resident, walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, to collect some documents related to his upcoming marriage.
Inside the consulate, he was detained, tortured and murdered. His body was dismembered with a bone saw by Saudi intelligence operatives — who, according to the CIA, were obeying orders ultimately from Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), Saudi Arabia's de facto head of state — and smuggled out of the consulate, never to be seen again.
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