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Saudi Human Rights Concerns 'in the Rearview Mirror' for US, Says Aaron David Miller
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6:58Now PlayingAaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman's friendly visit to the United States was designed to demonstrate that concerns over Saudi Arabia's record on human rights - and the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi - are no longer a priority for the United States.
On Nov. 18, President Donald Trump hosted Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House. Trump, eager to attract investment and boost ties with the oil-rich kingdom, said the kingdom’s de facto ruler “knew nothing about” the 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.
“A lot of people didn’t like that gentleman that you’re talking about,” Trump said after being asked about Khashoggi while sitting with the crown prince, known as MBS, in the Oval Office. “Whether you like him or didn’t like him, things happen, but [MBS] knew nothing about it, and we can leave it at that.”
Khashoggi, formerly one of Saudi Arabia’s best-known journalists, was living in self-imposed exile in the US when he vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018. Turkish officials said he was killed inside. After initially denying it, the Saudi government admitted he died there, first claiming a fight broke out before later saying a team sent to persuade him to return to the kingdom had killed him. Saudi authorities charged 11 people in the case.
Saudi Arabia has denied that MBS had any role in Khashoggi’s killing. However, a US intelligence report in 2021 implicated the crown prince in his death.
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