Said lunatic has precedent in projecting brutal force: abducting & allegedly torturing the Lebanese PM into resigning while in captivity, turning a 5-star hotel into a torture/extortion camp https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/12/saudi-general-may-have-tortured-death-ritz-carlton-crackdown/amp/ …https://twitter.com/tomgara/status/1049824617446158336 …
Worth listening to the Arab Tyrant Manual podcast interviewing Khashoggi I linked to earlier, it’s insightful on the political tensions.