By Aaron Miller-
Jamal Khashoggi was advice not to enter the Turkish consulate a week before his cruel murder, but he ignored it.
The Washington Post and Middle East Eye columnist was confident nothing harmful could happen to him in the embassy, after all that is the last place a murder would take place, right? Wrong? The outspoken critic of crown prince Mohammed Al Sabin was negligent in his assumptions and tragically paid with it with his life.
Khashoggi was looking forward to a romantic future with his fiancée Hatice Cengiz. Collecting the formal documents to allow him marry Cengiz was his priority, ignoring the highly potential fate that he may never live to experience the marriage he longed. ”I’m I going to be given an injection?, tapes disclosed to the public reveal he asked once the realisation he had been trapped by his brutal assailants sunk in. ”How can this happen in an embassy?”, he asked.
The cruel reality that anything can happen anywhere became painfully real, although the murderous operation itself was both callous and foolish. The carefully planned killing has been exposed as a premeditated murder which will forever reflect badly on the Saudi Kingdom who will endure the blame for his death. The kingdom’s denial of authorising the killing has limited effect on public opinion that the order came from above. A state killing is the global consensus on Khashoggi’s cruel murder which comes with several lessons of its own.
HEINOUS
Khashoggi did not think it possible for such a heinous crime to occur at the Saudi Embassy, but took a great risk in ignoring advice. He believed he knew what he was doing, what he did not know is what his enemies were planning. Khashoggi knew the type of country and national leader he had been criticising all these years, the level of dictatorship rule prevailing in Saudia Arabia. In death, his blood will continue to scream for many years for the type of justice he fought and campaigned for. His soul can only rely on others to fight the same fight for him, but how far it will get them is the million dollar question.