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Biden Administration Will Deal With Saudi Arabia With Integrity


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And call a murderer a murderer, not someone to respect and do business with...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/public-report-blame-saudi-crown-043946574.html

NBC News

U.S. concludes Saudi crown prince approved Khashoggi killing, new intel report to say

Andrea Mitchell and Ken Dilanian
 

The Biden administration will release an intelligence report as early as Thursday that concludes that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, three U.S. officials familiar with the matter said.

The intelligence assessment, based largely on work by the CIA, is not new; NBC News was among the organizations that confirmed it in 2018.

But its public release will mark a significant new chapter in the U.S.-Saudi relationship and a clear break by President Joe Biden with former President Donald Trump's policy of equivocating about the Saudi state's role in a brutal murder that was widely condemned by members of Congress, journalists and a U.N. investigator.

Reuters first reported on the declassified intelligence summary scheduled for release in the coming days.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday that Biden would communicate with the Saudi king, rather than his son the crown prince. She said the declassified report was being prepared for release soon.

The president confirmed to reporters late Wednesday that he had read the report.

It's unclear how releasing the report will affect U.S.-Saudi relations. Biden officials have been engaging with the Saudis since they took office, according to the State Department.

Khashoggi, 59, was a Saudi citizen working as a Washington Post columnist when he was lured to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, and killed by a team of intelligence operatives with close ties to the crown prince. His body was dismembered in part with a bone saw, American officials have said, and the remains have never been found.

After first denying the murder, the Saudi government changed course and asserted that Khashoggi was killed by accident as the team sought to forcibly extradite him. The Saudis say that the team acted on its own and that the crown prince was not involved.

Eight men were convicted in a trial that international observers called a farce; five got the death penalty. Their sentences were commuted to 20 years after they were allegedly forgiven by Khashoggi's relatives.

IMAGE: Jamal Khashoggi in Bahrain in 2014 (Mohammed Al-Shaikh / AFP - Getty Images file)
 
IMAGE: Jamal Khashoggi in Bahrain in 2014 (Mohammed Al-Shaikh / AFP - Getty Images file)

Agnes Callamard, who investigated the killing for the United Nations, accused Saudi Arabia of a "deliberate, premeditated execution, an extrajudicial killing for which the state of Saudi Arabia is responsible under international human rights law."

The CIA presented the White House with its assessment in 2018, but it did not appear to change Trump's friendly relations with Saudi Arabia and with bin Salman in particular.

Trump bragged in 2019 that he had protected bin Salman from congressional scrutiny in recorded interviews with journalist Bob Woodward.

"I saved his ," Trump said. "I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop."

"Do you believe that he did it?" Woodward asked.

"No, he says that he didn't do it," Trump replied.

During the 2020 election campaign, Biden promised to make the Saudis "pay the priceand make them, in fact, the pariah that they are."

Biden has ended American support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen, but he has not moved to cut off military aid to an important Middle East ally and counterterrorism partner.

"The president's intention, as is the intention of this government, is to recalibrate our engagement with Saudi Arabia," Psaki said Wednesday.

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Saudi Arabia is our second biggest Ally in the Middle East with Israel being the first.  Regardless of the actions of Saudi Arabia's dealings with their citizens we need them to remain our ally in a hostile territory.  I think it would be best to let that sleeping dog lie.  It's odd that he turns a blind eye to our enemy with China, but wants to come down on our ally.  At least with President Trump we alienated our allies, but he was looking out for U.S..  https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/06/trump-foreign-policy-accomplishments/.  The Saudi Government is very protective of it's royal family, unless they disgrace it then they also wind up like Khashoggi. 

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On 2/26/2021 at 7:07 AM, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Translation....pedoJoe will bow down and kiss their like Barry did.......

 .... and continue to fund towel head terrorists with pallets of cash confiscated as tax dollars from U.S. citizens  .....

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6 hours ago, RETIREDFAN1 said:

Biden refuses to bring punishment against royal Saud who approved Khashoggi killing

 

 

https://www.wnd.com/2021/02/biden-refuses-bring-punishment-royal-saud-approved-khashoggi-killing/

 

Wrong as usual, LARRY....... @BarryLaverty

Sad part is we knew they were responsible when it happened, yet nothing was done SMH

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On 2/27/2021 at 7:25 PM, osup116 said:

We are now beholding to their oil again. Nothing will happen

 

Yep, Joe made sure that we are going to make Russia and Saudi Arabia richer which will give them more power.  Even if Biden places sanctions on Saudi Arabia they will just sell their oil to you guessed it buddies in China.  

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2 hours ago, JETT said:

Sad part is we knew they were responsible when it happened, yet nothing was done SMH

He wasn't an American citizen, he was a Saudi citizen.  As I've stated before Saudi Arabia deals this type of punishment to it's citizens all the time.  He was extremely critical of the Saudi Government and it's rulers which they viewed as treasonous to the crown and the country.  He should have attempted to become a citizen of another country.  When he went into exile he first went to England and then finally the U.S..  Of course he didn't because even with his hatred of the Government and royals he still loved his country.  That doesn't fly with the Arabs so they killed him when he went to retrieve documents to get married.  Why this is even an issue in the United States is beyond me.  He wrote for the Washington Post for less than 2 years.  He had already attempted to disgrace the Saudi royal family and Qatar was providing him with funds and information to continue to attack his leaders.  He could have avoided his death had he just become another countries citizen.  The left is only defending him, because he shared their bleak outlook on the future of how the World should be run.   

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