Monday, October 8, 2018

Today's WorldView: The Khashoggi case is a crisis for U.S.-Saudi ties - btbirkett@gmail.com - Gmail

Today's WorldView: The Khashoggi case is a crisis for U.S.-Saudi ties - btbirkett@gmail.com - Gmail



This could be the moment that Saudi Arabia finally loses Washington. Over the weekend, Turkish officials told my colleaguesthat veteran Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, was murdered by a 15-member Saudi team dispatched to kill him. According to a U.S. official briefed by Turkish counterparts, Khashoggi’s body was likely dismembered, removed in boxes and flown out of the country.

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