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Today, Explained

Disappeared

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week, but he never left. Now, Turkish officials claim he was killed and then dismembered with a bone saw. Saudi dissident Ghanem al-Masarir al-Dosari explains how speaking out against the Saudi government became a matter of life or death. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a guy people call MBS, may have just made a very big mistake.

0:07.0

All right, now to this disturbing story in an era where the press is under attack all over the world.

0:11.0

The Washington Post is reporting one of its columnists has gone missing at a consulate in Turkey.

0:16.0

Members of the United States and Turkish governments think that MBS authorized a hit squad to travel to Turkey

0:23.0

and covertly kill a Saudi journalist who was there.

0:27.0

The Crown Prince may have thought no one would notice, but people noticed and it's not going away.

0:58.0

The world is going to be a hit squad.

1:04.0

Jamal Khashoggi is a 59 year old journalist.

1:08.0

He's also a Washington Post columnist.

1:10.0

He was last seen October 2nd in Istanbul entering the Saudi consulate to get a document so that he could marry his Turkish Beyoncé.

1:18.0

He hasn't been seen since.

1:19.0

Alexia Underwood is a foreign editor of Oks.

1:22.0

Turkish authorities are claiming that he was murdered in the consulate.

1:27.0

After Turkish police announced they were conducting a murder investigation, Saudi Arabia State News Agency denied accusations that Khashoggi was murdered in their consulate.

1:36.0

So the Saudi government is denying that they've had any involvement saying that he left the consulate through another entrance.

1:43.0

They're also saying that they're looking to find him and they're concerned about his whereabouts and that they're cooperating fully with the Turkish government's investigation.

1:50.0

Three days later, Turkey's foreign ministry summoned Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Ankara and Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman,

1:56.0

said Turkish police could search the Saudi consulate.

1:59.0

They then invited journalists in to show Khashoggi was not there.

2:04.0

On Tuesday night, the Washington Post reported that US intelligence had actually intercepted communications of Saudi plans to lure Khashoggi and to bring him back to Saudi Arabia.

2:16.0

They also said that the investigation has expanded to include the consul general Muhammad Aliotabis residents

2:23.0

since a vehicle left the consulate and went there for a few hours around the same time that the journalists disappeared.

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