The Khashoggi case is a huge deal right now, and for good reason. A government is silencing\u00a0media that is critical of them and got caught. The Saudi government could have done a wide variety of other things besides killing a reporter. They had been trying to stall giving out the facts of whether they killed Khashoggi\u00a0or not most likely, because\u00a0the Saudi\u00a0government was hoping to have the 24-hour\u00a0news cycle save them. What I mean by that is that is the Saudi\u00a0government was hoping for some bigger news story to come along and take the spotlight so the results of the Saudi’s\u00a0“investigation” on his murder would be page four or so.\u00a0 But with pressure mounting on them from other countries they need to\u00a0come out with\u00a0the truth before other countries\u00a0do. Turkey claims to have incriminating evidence against the Saudis, but they have yet to release the information, the Saudi’s could either hope Turkey\u00a0is bluffing and wait it out or come out with the truth right now. The Saudis\u00a0put themselves in this predicament because they had to kill a reporter in a really obvious\u00a0way leaving little to no doubt that they did it before investigations even started. Why would they do this? Did they underestimate how big this story would be? Did they just think that they killed Kashoggi\u00a0and that no one would care or\u00a0notice? Maybe\u00a0they thought others would be too afraid to do anything about\u00a0Khashoggi\u00a0being killed?\u00a0 The Saudi\u00a0government killing a reporter\u00a0in this fashion really shows how powerful the Saudis think they are and then that illusion falls apart around them as many other countries all want the real answers\u00a0about who killed Khashoggi and why. This could hurt the country as well because other countries might boycott\u00a0their oil because Saudi Arabia has a corrupt\u00a0government. If that does happen the story about what happened to Khashoggi\u00a0could cost them more then he ever could.<\/p>\n
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