Biden not only highlighted the progress in moving relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel towards normalization and said the US and Saudi Arabia agreed to partner on a "far-reaching" green energy initiative.
The New York Times report states that the U.S. State Department and other government agencies are responsible for vetting foreign forces trained on U.S. soil,
The 59-year-old journalist, who went into self-imposed exile in the US in 2017, was last seen entering the Saudi consulate on October 2, 2018 to obtain papers he needed to marry Cengiz.
It undermined a series of steps Saudi Arabia had recently announced that appeared to show it was adopting basic human rights standards, such as dropping the death penalty for minors and ending the practice of flogging.
The 59-year-old had been a columnist for the Washington Post since 2017 after he left Saudi Arabia and was openly critical of his country’s monarchy.
The transcript notes the sounds of the journalist's body being dismembered by a saw, as the alleged perpetrators were advised to listen to music to block out the sound.
Senator Lindsey Graham said he had "high confidence" Mohammed bin Salman was complicit in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
The meeting will take place at 11 a.m. in the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility in the basement of the Capitol Visitors Centre.
Jamal Khashoggi's private Whatsapp messages to friend and activist Omar Abdulaziz talks about the "beastly" behaviour of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Abdulaziz believed their messages were intercepted by Saudi authorities two months before the murder of the Saudi Journalist.
We are all, alas, making the same old Middle East mistake: of thinking that the bad guys will get overthrown or punished for their murders and transgressions and that the good guys (whoever they may be) will come out on top.
