What do have Jamal Khashoggi and Dawn Sturgess have in common? They are both victims of ill-conceived and idiotically-conducted assassinations.

Khashoggi, of course, is the Saudi dissident who is believed to have been killed last week during a Saudi GID intelligence service attempt to kidnap him from the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. Sturgess is the British citizen who was killed in July when she sprayed a perfume bottle on herself, unaware that it contained a highly toxic nerve agent that had been used in an attempt to kill a former British intelligence agent, Sergei Skripal, in March. The blame for Sturgess’ death lies squarely with Russia’s GRU intelligence service.