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Saudi Arabia
Sunday 31 March 2019
But they can’t prove that the Kingdom gave AMI the images
Tuesday 19 February 2019
Saturday 16 February 2019
The rebuttal comes as federal law enforcement officials this week launched a multi-agency investigation into how a growing number of Saudi students accused of serious crimes escaped prosecution.
Wednesday 13 February 2019
So far, the White House has doggedly refused to turn on its allies in Riyadh.
Sunday 10 February 2019
Contradicting U.S. intelligence reports, a foreign affairs minister claimed the Saudi officials accused of killing the journalist acted “outside their scope of authority.”
Friday 8 February 2019
Not just Oregon: Saudi students in at least 8 states, Canada vanish while facing criminal charges
Tuesday 5 February 2019
The US shipped weapons and secrets to the Saudis and Emiratis. Now, some are in the hands of fighters linked to al Qaeda and Iran.
Thursday 3 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 13
...but provided no new information about the murder or the investigation into how it happened.
Monday 24 December 2018
Government Shutdown Day 3
Thursday 13 December 2018
The 56-to-41 vote was a rare move by the Senate to limit presidential war powers and send a potent message of official disapproval
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Pompeo said the media's reporting on the assessment "has been inaccurate," while declining to say what was false.
Tuesday 11 December 2018
Monday 10 December 2018
Sunday 9 December 2018
In other words, MBS and company sought to exploit Kushner’s lack of expertise — an alarming prospect for anyone concerned about U.S. foreign policy.
Saturday 8 December 2018
“The inner circle is predominantly deal makers who lack familiarity with political customs and deep institutions, and they support Jared Kushner”
Tuesday 4 December 2018
Graham said Tuesday that you’d have to be “willfully blind” to not know Mohammed was responsible — a clear rebuke of Trump’s argument that this whole thing resides in some kind of gray area.
After a briefing from CIA Director Gina Haspel, Senate leaders declared Tuesday they were convinced that Saudi Arabia's crown prince was behind the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
Sunday 2 December 2018
American intelligence agencies have evidence that Prince Salman and Mr. Qahtani had 11 exchanges that roughly coincided with the hit team’s advance into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul, where Mr. Khashoggi was murdered.
Saturday 1 December 2018
In his conversation with Saudi Arabia's Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Trudeau said better answers about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi were required.
..."we could possibly lure [Khashoggi] outside Saudi Arabia and make arrangements," if the crown prince could not convince the dissident Saudi journalist [...] to return to Saudi Arabia.
Wednesday 28 November 2018
...prompted by lawmakers’ growing frustration with Trump for defending Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman’s denials of culpability in Khashoggi’s death
Tuesday 27 November 2018
Breaking with the president, [...] McConnell said that the intelligence agency has "basically certified" Saudi involvement at the highest levels.
Sunday 25 November 2018
"I don't have access to everything the president sees ... the intelligence I've seen suggests this was ordered by the crown prince. ... I don't know why he [Trump] is siding with the Saudis."
Thursday 22 November 2018
Pressed on who should be held to account for the murder, the president said that “maybe the world should be held accountable, because the world is a vicious place.”
Some of Trump’s GOP colleagues have warned that not punishing Saudi Arabia for its role in killing a U.S.-based columnist will have dangerous consequences
Denmark follows Germany, which had already indicated its intention to cut off weapons exports to Saudi in late October.
Wednesday 21 November 2018
...his willingness to stretch the truth for his own gain is nothing new. But his willingness to stretch the truth in defense of blatant human rights abuses may be.
Nevertheless, much of the coverage of his statement simply takes at face value his assertions that his handling of this issue is driven by American interests — rather than by his own self-interest or the interests of his donors in the defense contracting industry.
On Tuesday, Trump declared he would stand by Saudi Arabia, even though the CIA has reportedly concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered Khashoggi's killing.
Tuesday 20 November 2018
Amid outcry over writer's killing, dozens of princes and cousins want to see change in line of succession, report says.
Monday 19 November 2018
Time and time again, President Donald Trump seems to side with dictators over his own intelligence community.
Thursday 15 November 2018
...saying that a team of Saudi agents dispatched to Istanbul with orders to bring him home alive had instead killed the journalist and dismembered his body.
Monday 12 November 2018
Saturday 10 November 2018
An audio recording tracking the dying moments of journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul has been shared with Saudi Arabia, Britain, France and Germany in addition to the United States
Turkey has not said how it obtained a recording from inside the consulate.
Monday 5 November 2018
The kingdom sent an expert team to clean up evidence of the crime under the guise of helping with the investigation
Thursday 1 November 2018
A section of the booklet [...] described the Saudi population as “mainly composed of descendants of indigenous tribes that have inhabited the peninsula since prehistoric times with some later mixture of Negro blood from slaves imported from Africa.”
Wednesday 31 October 2018
...saying Saudi agents strangled him almost immediately after he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and then dismembered his body.
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Khashoggi worried he might end up in jail like so many other Saudi journalists when he first went to the consulate unannounced on Sept. 28 to request documents he needed to get married.
Wednesday 24 October 2018
The prince, who has fallen under suspicion for possibly ordering the killing, discussed the case Wednesday at the "Davos in the Desert" investment forum.
The Saudi government has continued to shift its account of what happened after the Washington Post writer entered its consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.
Tuesday 23 October 2018
Erdogan of Turkey on Tuesday raised the stakes in his dispute with Saudi Arabia over what he called the “premeditated murder” of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, demanding that Riyadh supply more answers and hand over the Saudi suspects.
Monday 22 October 2018
...he suggested the White House would need to balance any punishment for the death with its interests in the region.
This strategy has worked brilliantly to keep the anger over the story boiling and overwhelm the efforts of the Saudi regime and its enablers in Washington to contain the scandal.
"It was a flawed body double, so it never became an official part of the Saudi government's narrative"
Sunday 21 October 2018
“Obviously, there’s been deception and there’s been lies,” Mr. Trump said [...]. “Their stories are all over the place.”
Friday 19 October 2018
Trump, who has cultivated Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and made Saudi Arabia the linchpin of his Middle East strategy, has been deeply reluctant to point a finger at the prince
Thursday 18 October 2018
Wednesday 17 October 2018
Mr. Khashoggi was dead within minutes, beheaded, dismembered, his fingers severed, and within two hours the killers were gone, according to details from audio recordings described by a senior Turkish official
"I don’t want to talk about any of the facts," Pompeo said [...] "They didn’t want to either"
The reason Kushner is of particular interest on the disappearance of Khashoggi is that he was a key part of forging a relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and massive arms sale to the kingdom.
Trump downplayed his relationship with Michael Cohen, suggested separating kids from their parents at the border hadn’t been that big a deal, and doubled down on the idea that the Saudis may escape blame for Khashoggi.
Tuesday 16 October 2018
Pompeo [...] appeared less intent on determining the truth than in helping the de facto Saudi ruler escape from the crisis he triggered.
If, as the Turkish authorities say, these men were present at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul where Mr. Khashoggi disappeared on Oct. 2, they might provide a direct link between what happened and Prince Mohammed.
“The timing of this is no coincidence”
Monday 15 October 2018
But hours before the Turkish forensic team arrived, journalists photographed a cleaning crew entering the consulate, hauling buckets, mops and what appeared to be bottles of cleaning solution. When the Turkish investigators entered the consulate, some wearing white protective gear, they “smelled chemicals had been used”
In introducing the possibility that another party could have been involved in Mr. Khashoggi’s disappearance, the president opened a window for King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to stand by their denials
Saturday 13 October 2018
Friday 12 October 2018
Weapons sales “are certainly going to be a huge concern if” the Saudis are proven responsible for Khashoggi’s vanishing
...doubling down on the administration's hesitant response to the disappearance of a dissident Saudi journalist in Turkey as top business leaders back away from the kingdom.
The Global Magnitsky Act extends the sanctions stipulated by the original Magnitsky Act to human rights violators outside of Russia.
Saturday 6 October 2018
The killing, if confirmed, would mark a startling escalation of Saudi Arabia’s effort to silence dissent.
Tuesday 21 August 2018
Saturday 18 August 2018
Monday 13 August 2018
Saudi's attacks on Canada a "new normal within the Arab world since the failing of the Arab Spring," [...] "You're just being made aware of it now because the sewers have overflown"
Wednesday 8 August 2018
Tuesday 7 August 2018
Riyadh has stopped sending patients to Canadian hospitals and told hundreds of trainee doctors to leave Canada with only weeks’ notice.
The U.S. government has declined to come to Canada’s defence in the growing diplomatic crisis over its criticism of Saudi Arabia’s human-rights' record.
Monday 6 August 2018
Saudi Arabia expelled the Canadian ambassador, withdrew its ambassador from Canada and froze new business deals and investment with Canada.
Saudi Arabia's state media on Monday tweeted a graphic appearing to show an Air Canada airliner heading toward the Toronto skyline in a way that recalled the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Friday 3 August 2018
...“a last-minute visit to New York by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia” increased revenues for room rentals by 13 percentage points.
Saturday 19 May 2018
The meetings, which have not been reported previously, are the first indication that countries other than Russia may have offered assistance to the Trump campaign in the months before the presidential election.
Wednesday 11 April 2018
Saudi Arabia said it intercepted ballistic missiles and shot down drones sent from Yemen, in the latest attack by pro-Iranian rebels that showed improved military capabilities more than three years into the conflict.
Friday 23 March 2018
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Thursday it would be “really insane” for him to trade classified information with presidential son-in-law
Wednesday 21 March 2018
What exactly Kushner and the Saudi royal talked about in Riyadh may be known only to them, but after the meeting, Crown Prince Mohammed told confidants that Kushner had discussed the names of Saudis disloyal to the crown prince
On November 4, a week after Kushner returned to the U.S., the crown prince ... launched what he called an anti-corruption crackdown.
It is likely that Crown Prince Mohammed would have known who his critics were without Kushner mentioning them... The crown prince may also have had his own reasons for saying that Kushner shared information with him, even if that wasn’t true. Just the appearance that Kushner did so would send a powerful message to the crown prince’s allies and enemies
Wednesday 8 November 2017
The White House on Wednesday condemned attempted missile attacks launched against Saudi Arabia by Yemeni rebels, blaming the Iranian government for arming the rebels with such weapons systems.
Saturday 4 November 2017
Sunday 29 October 2017
The trip comes at a moment when the president’s son-in-law has played a downsized diplomatic role in other parts of the globe, such as China. But it shows that he is still firmly at the forefront of the administration’s efforts in the Middle East.
Tuesday 22 August 2017
Kushner departed on Sunday and is set to arrive in Israel Wednesday night for meetings on Thursday. The traveling American delegation was meeting with leaders from the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Saudi Arabia in the days before.
Sunday 11 June 2017
So far, Asia’s rising superpower and the Middle East’s most reactionary autocracy have gotten everything they’ve wanted from the White House, including unconditional public support from the president.
Friday 9 June 2017
Trump initially took sides with the Saudi-led group before apparently being nudged into a more even-handed approach when U.S. defense officials renewed praise of Doha, mindful of the major U.S. military base hosted by Qatar
Tuesday 6 June 2017
The disclosure of Saudi spending, however, could spark fresh debate about President Trump’s decision to retain ownership of his real-estate and branding empire while serving in the White House.
Monday 5 June 2017
There is no $110 billion deal. Instead, there are a bunch of letters of interest or intent, but not contracts.
None of the deals identified so far are new, all began in the Obama administration.
You will know the Trump deal is real when Israel begins to ask for a package to keep the Israeli Defense Forces’ qualitative edge preserved.
The countries — Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain — released separate and apparently coordinated statements saying they would cut air, sea and land links with Qatar
Tuesday 30 May 2017
President Trump has repeatedly lashed out at Germany in recent weeks
Tuesday 23 May 2017
Monday 22 May 2017
In the image, Trump, Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz, and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi have their hands on an orb that lit up upon their touch
Saturday 20 May 2017
The kingdom signed tentative agreements ... including fighter jets, ships and missiles, as well as energy technology, health-care expertise, job training and a $40 billion joint infrastructure investment fund.
Trump, the only U.S. president to make Saudi Arabia his first foreign visit, exchanged greetings with Saudi King Salman as a military brass band played
Friday 19 May 2017
Saudi Arabia, Israel, Rome, the Vatican, Brussels, Sicily
Trump will arrive in Saudi Arabia for his first foreign trip as leader of the United States
Saturday 25 February 2017
Countries known for human rights abuses, such as China and Saudi Arabia, have managed to snag seats on the 47-member council.