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| Subject: Unethical Saudi King Stands by Clown Prince as Outrage Over Khashoggi Killing Spreads Mon Nov 19, 2018 6:33 pm | |
| BEIRUT, Lebanon — King Salman of Saudi Arabia on Monday stood by his son and crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, avoiding any mention of the international outrage toward the kingdom in his first public remarks since Saudi agents killed the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month.
The echoes of that killing continued to spread Monday, with Germany imposing sanctions on 18 Saudis suspected of involvement and freezing arms exports to Saudi Arabia. And the Turkish defense minister suggested that Mr. Khashoggi’s killers could have left the country with his body.
Mr. Khashoggi’s killing inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has become a lightning rod for Western criticism of Saudi Arabia, its human rights record and the leadership of Prince Mohammed, the kingdom’s day-to-day ruler.
A growing chorus of current and former Western officials have concluded that an operation as elaborate as the one to kill Mr. Khashoggi could not have been carried out without the prince’s knowledge. American officials told The New York Times and other publications last week that the C.I.A. had concluded that the prince had ordered the killing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-king-salman-khashoggi.html
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