So this may be interpreted poorly, but why was this murder such a big story in the news? This is a drop in the bucket of Saudi misdeeds.
Is this not in line with the average person’s perception of the Saudi government?
Is this not in line with the average person’s perception of the Saudi government?
He had developed standing in the US, including journalistic circles (he was a journalist, after all).
His murder and subsequent coverup attempts were ludicrously brazen.
It [almost certainly] involved the Saudi crown prince who has been courted by the president's children/advisors.
He was merely a person residing in the US.
You would have to clarify further on this.
In general, even if you ignore that Jamal was a well known person, being killed in your own embassy is newsworthy anywhere. For a long time embassies were considered a place of refuge.
Quite some speculation if you tell me. And I am not from the USA.
And, you know, frankly - please consider the integrity of the source (NY Post). Tabloid journalism is not generally reliable, and they have a history of stating the wrong facts (i.e. lying), and it probably wouldn't be hard for me to find cases of "lying by omission".
I don't have a stake in this battle. If the Saudi government was fully complicit in the attacks, it would not shake my world view. What I don't like is lowering the threshold of evidence against an entity simply because there are good reasons not to like that entity.
No. The average person thinks we’re allies and therefore by definition Saudi Arabia is run by “good guys”.
There are so many reasons. In no particular order, here are some:
* There was so much detail available about what happened. By the standards of state-sanctioned assassination, it was very sloppy.
* It happened in Turkey, so it's part of a trend of state actors believing they can assassinate with impunity in western countries. This makes people feel unsafe.
* In the US, our leaders are siding with, or at least explicitly defending, the actors responsible for these assassinations a lot more often than is comfortable.
* When you own a factory full of printing presses and one of your employees is murdered and dismembered by a government, you make a big story out of it.
> Is this not in line with the average person’s perception of the Saudi government?
The specifics of what happened to Jamal Khashoggi are genuinely new.
A close associate of Al-Waleed bin Talal