The guy was a reporter. He was pissing the Saudi’s off and they did the same thing to him that people all over that region do and have been doing for centuries.
The media is horrified. I don’t give a hoot about what happened but I will say this. I’ll bet the reporters over their will be very, very careful about what they write about the Royal family.
He was a super-wealthy Saudi, with lifelong ties to the Intelligence Community, who was the most prominent face of the Muslim Brotherhood in Saudi Arabia (which works to take over the Governments in the region, including Saudi Arabia).
Oh, and he also had ghostwriters publish a few Muslim Brotherhood propaganda pieces in the Washington Post under his name.
His uncle, Adnan Khashoggi, was the billionaire arms dealer who ran the Iran Contra affair.
I can think of a LARGE number of American “reporters” who need a one-way ticket to the Consulate...