The man, identified as Khaled Aedh al-Otaibi, 33, one of the Saudi Royal Guards wanted by Turkey for being involved in the 2018 murder, just happens to share the killer’s name, Le Figaro reported. The Paris public prosecutor’s office confirmed the man’s true identity, the newspaper reported, citing sources. He …
Read More »Journos, ministers, Khashoggi’s son & a ruler’s family on list of 50,000 possible targets for Israeli spyware Pegasus – reports
Among the people presumed to be selected for digital surveillance are “hundreds of business executives, religious figures, academics, NGO employees, union officials and government officials, including cabinet ministers, presidents and prime ministers,” The Guardian reported. It also includes “close family members of one country’s ruler, suggesting the ruler may have …
Read More »Biden’s business-as-usual with MBS after Khashoggi report proves any US admin puts a price tag on its principles
The United States government recently confirmed reports that the public had long identified as true: That Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, personally ordered the execution of Washington Post writer Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen and US resident. While his government released the report, President Joe …
Read More »Khashoggi murder: Saudi Crown Prince ‘cleared of all wrongdoing, it’s time to move on,’ kingdom envoy tells RT
A recently declassified US intelligence assessment concluded that the powerful Saudi royal scion personally “approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill” the Washington Post columnist. But as far as Riyadh is concerned, the Crown Prince “has been cleared of all wrongdoing,” Abdallah al-Mouallimi, the Saudi representative at …
Read More »Biden administration will NOT sanction Saudi Prince over Khashoggi killing, but will use ‘more effective’ tools – White House
The Biden administration’s decision to sanction a number of Saudi officials, but not the Crown Prince himself, was made after an intelligence community report released on Friday accused the Prince of approving the capture and killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul in 2018. Psaki appeared on CNN’s ‘State of the …
Read More »Saudi Arabia ‘categorically rejects’ US claims about Khashoggi killing, as Washington stops short of sanctioning Crown Prince MBS
“The Kingdom’s government categorically rejects the abusive and incorrect conclusions contained in the report about the Kingdom’s leadership,” the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, adding that the US report “cannot be accepted in any way.” Saudi Arabia rejects anything that would “prejudice its leadership, sovereignty and …
Read More »Saudi Crown Prince APPROVED plan to ‘capture or kill’ Khashoggi, newly-declassified US intelligence report says
“We assess that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi,” reads the report, which was released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Friday. The report cites Prince Mohammed’s “control of decisionmaking in …
Read More »Khashoggi family calls jail sentences for murder ‘fair rulings’ as former fiance blasts ‘mockery of justice’
“The crimes committed by those convicted are major crimes and the sentences include various prison sentences are just rulings that are accepted by the court that governs the law of God and public order,” Mutassim Khashoggi, lawyer for the Khashoggi family, told the local Asharq al-Awsat newspaper on Monday evening, …
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