Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, reportedly ordered that missing dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi be lured from Virginia to his home country so he could be detained.
The crown prince’s alleged involvement was revealed through discussions between Saudi officials intercepted by U.S. intelligence, according to the Washington Post late Wednesday.
Friends of Khashoggi, a U.S. resident, told the newspaper that senior Saudi aides had offered the media figure a high-level government job in recent months should he return to Saudi Arabia. Khashoggi declined the entreaties, fearing for his safety at the hands of the regime.
Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi royal court who most recently worked for the Washington Post as a columnist, has not been seen since he visited the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, on Oct. 2. His trip to the consulate was to arrange paperwork for his wedding to his fiancee, Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish citizen.
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The crown prince of Saudi Arabia reportedly ordered that missing dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi be lured from Virginia to his home country so he could be detained.
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) October 11, 2018
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