Saudi Royals Meet With Khashoggi’s Relatives

A general manager of Alarab TV, Jamal Khashoggi, looks on during a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama, on December 15, 2014. The pan-Arab satellite news broadcaster owned by billionaire Saudi businessma... A general manager of Alarab TV, Jamal Khashoggi, looks on during a press conference in the Bahraini capital Manama, on December 15, 2014. The pan-Arab satellite news broadcaster owned by billionaire Saudi businessman Alwaleed bin Talal will go on air February 1, promising to "break the mould" in a crowded field.AFP PHOTO/ MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH (Photo credit should read MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Saudi King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman have received the family of killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi and expressed their condolences.

The royals received the journalist’s son, Salah, and his brother, Sahel, at the Yamama Palace in Riyadh on Tuesday. A friend of the Khashoggi family told The Associated Press that Salah has been under a travel ban since last year. The individual spoke on condition of anonymity, fearing reprisal.

Prince Mohammed has come under mounting pressure, with critics suspecting he ordered the high-profile operation or at least knew about it. Saudi authorities say they have arrested 18 suspects and dismissed senior officials.

The prince appeared briefly at an afternoon panel Tuesday alongside Jordan’s King Abdullah II, but made no public remarks.

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  1. Holy shit, that’s an old-style mafia THREAT. “Of course we’d hate for anything like that to happen to any of you, or anyone else in his family. Or his friends.”

    Murdering motherfuckers.

  2. It’s absolutely ghoulish the way the Saudi government is coercing Khashoggi’s son into these ritual displays of reconciliation. If the condolences were even remotely genuine, they would grant him an exit visa. Instead, he remains trapped in SA, where he knows he has to keep his mouth shut and pretend to accept their phony bullshit – or else.

  3. And since they’ve been our trusted allies for some 85 years now, it shows the complete moral bankruptcy of US foreign relations under both Parties, save for Carter’s brief foray into a focus on human rights…

  4. How do you say “Plata o plomo” in Arabic? That’s the deal.

  5. If the Khashoggi family members refused this honor they’d likely meet the same fate.

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