Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage. He never came out.
Inside, he was ambushed, suffocated, dismembered, and disappeared—killed by a 15-man Saudi hit squad dispatched from Riyadh. Turkish intelligence caught the cover-up in real time. The CIA later concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation to “capture or kill” him. The prince denied it. Washington shrugged.
Khashoggi had been living in exile, writing for The Washington Post. His crime? Telling the truth. He criticized authoritarian drift, the jailing of dissidents, and the hollow pageantry of reform in a regime that brooks no dissent.
They dismembered his body, but not his voice. His columns still speak—archived in ink and outrage. He warned us. He pleaded with us not to normalize repression masquerading as modernization.
Let it never be acceptable to murder a man for writing the truth. Let it never become forgettable.
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The Silence He Refused
October 2, 2018 – Istanbul
Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his upcoming marriage. He never came out.
Inside, he was ambushed, suffocated, dismembered, and disappeared—killed by a 15-man Saudi hit squad dispatched from Riyadh. Turkish intelligence caught the cover-up in real time. The CIA later concluded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the operation to “capture or kill” him. The prince denied it. Washington shrugged.
Khashoggi had been living in exile, writing for The Washington Post. His crime? Telling the truth. He criticized authoritarian drift, the jailing of dissidents, and the hollow pageantry of reform in a regime that brooks no dissent.
They dismembered his body, but not his voice. His columns still speak—archived in ink and outrage. He warned us. He pleaded with us not to normalize repression masquerading as modernization.
Let it never be acceptable to murder a man for writing the truth. Let it never become forgettable.
—Wayne