Khashoggi:
The last is yet to be heard of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi by officials of his home government as British Prime Minister Theresa May joined US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday saying that her country would revoke visas for anyone suspected of being involved in the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
This is coming on the heels of US President Trumps’ condemnation of the murder as the ‘biggest cover up in history’ on Tuesday, though he declined blaming King Salman.
“The cover-up was horrible. The execution was horrible,” he told news media on Tuesday night at the White House. “But there should have never been an execution or a cover-up because it should have never happened.
“Well, the prince is running things over there more so at this stage. He’s running things and so if anybody were going to be, it would be him,” Mr Trump told the newspaper.
“My first question to him was, ‘Did you know anything about it in terms of the initial planning?’” Mr Trump said, adding that the prince told him that he did not.
The president said he asked the prince “‘Where did it start?’ And he said it started at lower levels.”
Asked if he believed the denials, Mr Trump told the newspaper: “I want to believe them. I really want to believe them”.
“There does remain an urgent need to establish exactly what has happened in relation to this … I myself expect to speak to King Salman later today,” May told the British parliament.
Khashoggi had been very critical of his government’s policies lately before he disappeared on October 2 when he entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul. It took consistent global pressure for Riyadh to admit he had been killed by it officials.
