BIDEN PROMISED TO BRING UP MURDER TO MBS, KHASHOGGI’S WIDOW SAYS

Thu 14 July 2022:

Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, a widow of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington-based journalist killed by Saudi government agents four years ago, said Wednesday that President Joe Biden has promised to bring up the murder when he meets with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.

The crown prince, whom Biden will be meeting for the first time in Jeddah on Friday, likely approved of the killing, according to U.S. intelligence.

Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, the slain writer’s widow, told Spectrum News she received assurances during a meeting with administration officials. “They said so,” she said.

A senior administration official and Khashoggi’s widow spoke about Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia earlier this week, according to a White House official. The official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the conversation, declined to give further details.

Hanan Elatr’s husband, 57, a celebrated journalist and most recently a columnist for the Washington Post, was murdered in October 2018 after entering the Saudi consulate, apparently in order to obtain a visa. It emerged he had been planning to visit Saudi Arabia and he had gone to the consulate that day with Hatice Cengiz, a Turkish student to whom he had apparently proposed marriage.

It emerged Khashoggi had been murdered by a 12-person-strong hit team, and his body dismembered by a bone saw. It was alleged he had been murdered on the orders of the highest level of the Saudi state, after falling out with the authorities.

Saudi Arabia has denies the accusations and claimed he had been killed by “rogue” officials.

A report published in 2019 by Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, said Saudi Arabia was responsible for “premeditated execution”.

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