David Bell

Holy shit.

It's great stuff.

So Khashoggi himself had fled Saudi Arabia in June of 2017, having seen the writing on the wall of the Ritz.

He had escalated his criticisms of the regime, and MBS in particular, and had launched a series of projects with the aim of collecting and amplifying foreign dissent against the government.

Because he was too clever to fly back into the country, Saudi operatives had to nab him overseas in order to stop his inconvenient criticisms.

Saud al-Qahtani, MBS's trigger man, is known to have organized the effort to take out Khashoggi.

They finally caught him in Turkey.

A 15-member intervention group team fell upon the journalist as he visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, seeking papers to make his marriage to his fiancée official.

While she waited outside, the tame attacked him.

The kingdom would later claim their job was just to take him back to Saudi Arabia, but he resisted and so was injected with a large dose of something that killed him.

His body was then dismembered.

MBS, the government insisted, had no knowledge of any of this.

Subsequent investigations and reporting have revealed that one member of the negotiation team was a coroner explicitly hired to dismember Mr. Khashoggi's corpse after he was killed, which would suggest they never wanted to take him alive.

Right.

You don't bring a coroner along if you think you're going to get this guy out of the building alive.

Who among us was like, we just want to we just want to talk to him.

Oh, damn it.

We dismembered him.

Yeah.

Ah, fuck.