Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reportedly told President Joe Biden during their meeting in Jeddah Friday that while the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi is “regrettable,” U.S. hands are not clean and other journalists are killed with impunity.<\/p>\n
Bin Salman specifically mentioned the torture scandal at the US military prison at Abu Ghraib, Iraq and the killing<\/a> of Palestinian-American Al Jazeera<\/em> reporter Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli forces in May, according to <\/a>Al Aribiya<\/em>, which is owned by the Saudi government.<\/p>\n The de facto Saudi ruler also said that the CIA – which along with other American intelligence agencies concluded<\/a> that Khashoggi’s gruesome 2018 murder<\/a> was likely ordered by bin Salman – makes mistakes, as it did when it falsely claimed<\/a> Iraq had an active weapons of mass destruction program prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and occupation.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Bin Salman’s smarmy reply underlines the way in which the US government’s lawlessness in misadventures like invading Iraq and its weird commitment to Israeli apartheid practices against the Palestinians undermine its moral standing to argue for ‘a rules-based global order,'” Informed Comment <\/em>publisher Juan Cole observed<\/a>. “Almost no one in the US dares say this, but for the rest of the world it is a commonplace insight.”<\/p>\n Saudi official gives MBS's response to Biden when he asked about Khashoggi. "You can't impose your values on us by force. Remember Abu Ghraib? What have you done about Shireen Abu Akleh?". Yes MBS literally said that to Biden. https:\/\/t.co\/9DQDrWVM2L<\/a><\/p>\n — ?yad el-Baghdadi | ???? ???????? (@iyad_elbaghdadi) July 16, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n