US Intel Report Accuses Saudi Crown Prince Of Ordering The Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi

US Intel Report Accuses Saudi Crown Prince Of Ordering The Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi

US Intel Report Accuses Saudi Crown Prince Of Ordering The Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi. image: Wikipedia

US Intel Report Accuses Saudi Crown Prince Of Ordering The Murder Of Jamal Khashoggi.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved the murder of Virginia-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a newly released U.S. intelligence report claims.

The Biden administration’s release of the Feb. 11 report, prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, marks a dramatic turn in the U.S.-Saudi alliance, which under President Trump had stepped carefully in statements concerning Khashoggi’s death.

“We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” the report’s summary says.

The central conclusion of the report was widely expected given that intelligence officials were said to have reached it soon after the brutal Oct. 2, 2018, murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a constant critic of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s authoritarian consolidation of power.

President Biden spoke on Thursday with Saudi King Salman ahead of the release of the redacted report implicating his son — but a White House readout of the call did not mention Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist who was murdered and then dismembered in 2018 after being lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

The public assignment of responsibility to the 35-year-old crown prince is likely to set the tone for the new administration’s relationship with a country Biden has criticized but which the White House also regards as a strategic partner.

President Joe Biden told reporters on Wednesday he had read the report and expected to speak soon by phone with Saudi Arabian King Salman, 85, father of the crown prince, the country’s 35-year-old de facto ruler.

The report’s release is part of Biden’s policy to realign ties with Riyadh after years of giving the Arab ally and major oil producer a pass on its human rights record and its intervention in Yemen’s civil war.

Biden is working to restore the relationship with Riyadh to traditional lines after four years of cosier ties under Trump.


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    • Herbert

      27 February 2021 • 08:45

      … and how many did Obama, that is, the one with the Nobel Peace Prize, kill?

      what a false country this America is

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