What is common between two Russians and one Saudi national – Alexander Litivinenko, Sergei Skripal and Jamal Khashoggi?

* Their respective governments wanted them dead. Two were actually killed and one narrowly escaped death, that is, Skripal. 

* Their murders were ordered at the highest levels in their governments. 

* All three were targeted on foreign soil. 

* There was no due process of law, no warrant of arrest and no application to Interpol to have them extradited. They were simply assassinated by their respective secret agencies. 

* Neither the Russian nor Saudi governments cared two hoots for the principles of international law or norms of behavior on foreign soil. 

* Attacks on them raised an international outcry of varying degrees, exposing strange levels of moral deviance among the rulers of the West, who are generally inclined towards championing human rights, rule of law and principles of natural justice.