Khashoggi’s Final Column Published in The Washington Post

The Washington Post published its final column by Jamal Khashoggi on Wednesday evening. In an editor’s note, Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah wrote that she had received Khashoggi’s column one day after he was reported missing in Istanbul, where he entered the Saudi Arabian consulate this month. “The Post held off publishing it because we hoped Jamal would come back to us so that he and I could edit it together. Now I have to accept: That is not going to happen,” she wrote. “I will be forever grateful he chose The Post as his final journalistic home one year ago and gave us the chance to work together.” In his final column, Khashoggi wrote about how the Arab world needed “free expression” and a forum to discuss societal problems that the region faced. He wrote the region needed “a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events” to provide hope for its people, whom he believed are facing their own version of the “Iron Curtain.” Turkish intel officials claim Khashoggi was murdered inside the Saudi consulate. The Saudis had denied having anything to do with his disappearance, but reportedly are set to acknowledge that his death was the result of an “interrogation gone wrong.”

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