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1. For the first time since Jamal
Khashoggi's disappearance in Oct. 2, Saudi Arabia acknowledged late Friday that
he died in the country's consulate in Istanbul.
2.
He had 59.
3.
The announcement came after repeated denials by the
Saudis that they knew what happened to him.
4.
Whereas the world is waiting for further answers about
Khashoggi's death, more details about his background are coming to light.
5.
They paint an interesting picture of a man whose
family has deep ties to the Saudi monarchy that goes back generations.
6. Jamal Khashoggi's grandfather
was the doctor to King Abdul Aziz, the founder of Saudi Arabia on the 1930s.
7. His uncle Adnan become a
celebrity billionaire as the weapons broker for another Saudi monarch, King
Fahd.
8. "They were a rich family,
educated," said Ali al-Ahmed, a Saudi dissident who runs the Institute for
Gulf Affairs in Washington, D.C. He knew Jamal Khashoggi for many years ago and
saw him as a loyalist who later became a critic of the royal family.
9. Ali al-Ahmed acknowledged that
he had much disagreements with Khashoggi, who wanted to see gradual reforms by
the monarchy, while Ahmed would like to replace it with a democratic
government.
10.In the years after the 2001
al-Qaida attacks, Khashoggi visited to the U.S. with the message that the Saudi
leadership was still a trustworthy American ally.
11.Khashoggi eventually moved to
Washington on 2005 and worked at the Saudi Embassy as a key adviser to the
ambassador.
12."He was very close to the
royal family in Saudi Arabia," said Khaled Saffuri, an Arab-American
activist in Washington who knew Khashoggi since 25 years.
13."We used to getting
together for cigars for lunch or breakfast once in a while. We also met
frequently at think tanks here in D.C. Whenever there was an event about the
Middle East he never missed it."
14.As a journalist in his younger
years, Khashoggi interviewed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in the 1980s.
Khashoggi later became a newspaper editor. Not unexpectedly, however he thought
his own way, he was fired twice for coverage that offended the royal family.
15.In 2015, two crucial things have
happened. First, Mohammed bin Salman came to power, initially as a deputy crown
prince. Second, Khashoggi was named head of a new television station called Al
Arab.
16.But on the very first day, the
station was shut in six hours however the station aired an interview with a
prominent government critic.
18.But as Mohammed bin Salman
began shaking up the kingdom, Khashoggi was barred of media appearances.
19.So when he was silenced and
knew he was on the losing end of this palace infighting he decided leaving
Saudi Arabia in a self-imposed exile.
20.Khashoggi moved to the Washington
suburb of McLean, Va. last year. He lived in the same house he bought a decade
earlier when he represented the royal family at the Saudi Embassy.
21.In recent days President Trump
noted that Khashoggi wasn't a U.S. citizen but he had many ties to America. Khashoggi
graduated from Indiana State University in 1982. His four adult children were
all U.S. educated, and unless two are U.S. citizens.
22.And as he began remake his
life in the U.S., Khashoggi became more critical of the crown prince.
23.On Oct. 2, Khashoggi died at
the Saudi Consulate in Turkey — the country where his family has lived for
generations before moving to Saudi Arabia.
