The Disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi

1. What is the last that anyone knows about journalist Jamal Khashoggi?

He was walking into the Istanbul Saudi Consulate on October 2 to get a divorce verification.

2. What does Turkey say happened?  What does Saudi Arabia say happened?

He was murdered in the building

He left out the back entrance.

3. Why would the Saudi Arabian government have motive to murder him?

He was a journalist critical of the government.

4. How has Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tried to change Saudi Arabia?


He has supported women driving and cinema, but also purged his political opposition and led war with Yemen.

5. How did Khashoggi come to work for The Washington Post instead of the Saudi paper Al Watan?


He fled in fear of arrest.
6. Why did he visit the Saudi Consulate in Turkey?

To get divorce papers.

7.  The US is an ally of both.  Why don't they get along?

Saudi Arabia has a blockade on Qatar, an ally on Turkey, and does not approve of Turkey's acceptance of political Islam and ties to the Muslim Brotherhood.

8. How is the president responding to the issue?  How are Senators responding?


He affirms that US-Saudi relations are "excellent."

Senators have called for Trump to place sanctions on whoever caused Khashoggi's disappearance.
9. Why doesn't the president want to cause too much trouble with Saudi Arabia?


He doesn't want to lose out on a lucrative weapons sale.