{"id":748271,"date":"2022-07-17T02:34:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T02:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/?p=402663"},"modified":"2022-07-17T02:34:44","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T02:34:44","slug":"saudi-prince-taunts-biden-for-caring-more-about-khashoggi-than-shireen-abu-akleh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/07\/17\/saudi-prince-taunts-biden-for-caring-more-about-khashoggi-than-shireen-abu-akleh\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Prince Taunts Biden for Caring More About Khashoggi Than Shireen Abu Akleh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saudi Crown Prince<\/u> Mohammed bin Salman reportedly accused President Joe Biden of hypocrisy during their meeting in Jeddah on Friday, by asking why the murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi by a Saudi hit squad<\/a> in Turkey in 2018 seemed to matter more to him than the fatal shooting<\/a> of Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank May.<\/p>\n

Biden, who had said during his campaign for the presidency<\/a> in 2019 that Khashoggi was “murdered and dismembered… I believe on the order of the crown prince,” told reporters<\/a> that he had confronted Prince Mohammed over the killing of the dissident Saudi journalist at the start of their meeting this week.<\/p>\n

But, according to a Saudi official who spoke to the state broadcaster Al Arabiya<\/a>, the prince contrasted Biden’s concern about the brutal murder of Khashoggi, a long-term resident of the United States, with his failure to hold Israel’s government accountable for the killing of Abu Akleh, an American citizen who was shot \u2014 according to witnesses and visual investigations \u2014 from an Israeli military convoy.<\/p>\n


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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