WASHINGTON – Hours before his disappearance, Jamal Khashoggi publicly lamented vanishing freedoms across the Arab world and said he worried Saudi Arabia’s leaders were going to give his home country “a bad name” with some of their foreign policy decisions.
Little did Khashoggi know just how tarnished the Saudi royal family’s reputation would become. Or that he would, in absentia, be at the center of an international diplomatic standoff that has highlighted the alleged brutal tactics he had so firmly condemned.
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