On October 2nd Mr. Khashoggi a columnist for The Washington Post who was also a critic of Saudi Arabia’s current rulers, was killed by a team of Saudi agents in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul. Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir called the international outrage over the killing “fairly hysterical” and said that once the Saudi investigation was complete, the suspects would be held accountable “in Saudi Arabia.” Saudi Arabia acknowledged that Mr. Khashoggi had died inside the consulate only after more than two weeks of changing stories. Last Saturday, the kingdom said its investigators had concluded that Saudi agents accidentally strangled Mr. Khashoggi during a brawl that broke out while they were attempting to persuade him to voluntarily return home. Mr. Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, said the kingdom’s alliance with the United States was “ironclad.” He praised Mr. Trump’s regional foreign policy as “rational, realistic.”
By: Jack Bronec
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-khashoggi-turkey.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmiddleeast&action=click&contentCollection=middleeast®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=sectionfront
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