Video of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) ‘grinned’ for the question of NBC reporter Peter Alexander about whether he would apologize to the Jamal Khashoggi family had become viral. Alexander said after he asked a question, a Saudi aide grabbed his arm tightly.
Jamal Khashoggi, will you apologize to his family?” I shouted at the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the end of the press pool spray. MBS has a little smile, before a Saudi aide grabbed my arm tightly, “Peter Alexander Tweeted. Biden told the Saudi Prince that he had to be blamed for the killing of Khashoggi’s journalist: Report
In the video it can be seen that as soon as the question was asked, the host tried to conclude a press meeting by saying, ‘Thank you friends’. Another reporter asked, “President Biden, is a Saudi Arabian who is still paria. No questions raised and the meeting was concluded when MBS smiled.
US President Joe Biden said he raised the 2018 Jamal Khashoggi murder with the crown prince. “I appointed it at the top of the meeting, explaining what I thought at the time and what I thought now,” Biden said in his speech after hours of meeting with the Saudi Crown Prince in Jeddah. “He said he was not personally responsible for that, and he took action against those who were responsible,” Biden said.
Al Arabiya news channel, quoting an unnamed Saudi official, said the crown prince told Biden that such an incident could occur anywhere.
Last year, Biden released an intelligence report showing that MBS had ordered operations at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul which caused the killings of the Washington Post columnist and Saudi Critics Khashoggi.
But MBS was not approved because the White House quoted precedents about not imposing sanctions to foreign leaders.
Biden’s fist with MBS Drew Flak when Khashoggi’s fiancé Hatice Cengiz Tweeted that seeing Fistbump Jamal Khashoggi will say, “Hey @potus, is this the responsibility that you promised for my murder? The blood of the next MBS victim is in your hand.”