On Oct. 2, Saudi journalist and U.S. resident Jamal Khashoggi — a critic of his native country’s regime — walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to file some paperwork. No one has seen him since.

To all appearances, and absent any explanation to the contrary, the Saudi regime is responsible. Its intelligence service sent an entire team into Turkey to conduct the operation. They may have only intended to kidnap Khashoggi, but he is now feared dead and perhaps dismembered as well.

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