Damascus-Sana
A year has passed since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at his country's embassy in Istanbul, during which the Saudi regime and its accomplices in the United States have spared no effort to fold this issue in various ways, ranging from denial of involvement to fabricating complex and false accounts of what happened to provide huge bribes to contain its repercussions to the emergence. The sudden media reporter of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman who tried to evade his responsibility for this crime.
Ibn Salman held a dialogue with the US news channel CBS deliberately coincided with the first anniversary of the killing of Khashoggi on October 2, 2018, during which he announced a broad confession of responsibility for the crime, but denied in the dialogue issued a direct order to kill the Saudi journalist and made quite predictably To blame Saudi officials for trying to portray himself as a missing person who was unaware of what was going on in a flawed disregard of all the evidence and documents to the contrary, including the report of the UN investigator on extrajudicial executions, Agnes Kalamar, in which he asserted responsibility Man for that crime.
Ibn Salman, described by American broadcaster Nora O'Donnell as "a man of contradiction who is fighting a bloody war in Yemen and holding political opponents, confessed that he took responsibility for the crime because it took place under his administration and because officials working for the Saudi government carried it out," he said. This is an awful new attempt to mislead world public opinion and distract him from the memory of Khashoggi's death on the one hand and to distance himself as much as possible from what happened and to appear as a reformer who lives. And to remedy the flaw in his system.
The American media was keen to promote Ibn Salman's statements as a recognition of the special impact of this word to the Western public, which carries with it the manifestation of the guilty in a state of weakness as he pleads guilty waiting for sympathy and pardon for his act. It was not surprising that the Crown Prince of the Saudi regime chose a US media forum for such This step is quite certain that the US administration is behind him and supports him as it has done since the first day to reveal the details of the assassination of Khashoggi.
The Trump administration's complicity with bin Salman in covering up Khashoggi's crime was evident from the time of the crime, with Trump and his secretary of state Mike Pompeo's repeated assertions of the strategic importance of relations between Washington and the Saudi regime. Abandon his interests with Saudi Arabia.
The administration's account of Khashoggi's murder was summed up over the past year by an unresolved crime, despite a CIA report in 2018 that concluded that Salman's son ordered the killing of the Saudi journalist, but that did not stop Washington from ignoring the facts for money. Trump, according to the Washington Post, played a key role in bringing bin Salman back into the international arena after being an outcast for Khashoggi's murder.
Ibn Salman's new remarks sparked a lot of criticism, most notably by the UN Special Rapporteur Kalamar yesterday, which confirmed that the Crown Prince of the Saudi regime puts a great distance between him and the killing of Khashoggi and holds many parties responsible to distance himself from the killing and orders issued and planned.
Kalamar confirmed in her six-month investigation that there was sufficient evidence to open an investigation into Ibn Salman's responsibility. Last June, she asked for additional investigations, but days later she said the UN paralysis had prevented the identification of those responsible for the murder, in clear recognition of the UN's complicity with the Saudi regime. To American dictations as always.
Former US State Department official and researcher at the Brookings Institution, Tamara Wittes, criticized bin Salman's comments on Twitter, asking if Ibn Salman accepted responsibility for the crime as an act of Saudi government, why would he reject the UN report that came to the same conclusion?
Ibn Salman's attempts to diminish the image of the killer from himself continues, even if it means sacrificing a number of officials in his regime and announcing a mock trial and according to the course of things, he will continue to seek to bury the murder of Khashoggi forever, whether through the use of international media companies to whitewash his page to the world public His money to buy the collusion of Trump and others.
Bassima Kenoun