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U.S. senators pledge to push Trump on Saudis, journalist's death

By Patricia Zengerle

 

FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A demonstrator holds picture of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a protest in front of Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, October 5, 2018. REUTERS/Osman Orsal//File Photo

 

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican and Democratic U.S. senators said on Monday they were frustrated with the Trump administration's failure to provide more information about the murder of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi and vowed to push for a stronger response.

 

State and Treasury Department officials briefed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee behind closed doors on Monday evening. Lawmakers said they had learned nothing new.

 

"It was a complete waste of time. I knew more than they did," Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of President Donald Trump on many issues, told reporters.

 

Graham said it was time for more action, but did not elaborate.

 

Republican Senator Mitt Romney said: "It was not very helpful. And it was frustrating for a number of us to have made so little progress."

 

Bob Menendez, the committee's ranking Democrat, said new sanctions should be levied, possibly via legislation he co-sponsored with Graham.

 

"I think the Senate's going to have to act unless it is willing to accept the death of a U.S. resident journalist as an acceptable action because of a broader relationship. I don't accept that," Menendez said.

 

The Trump administration missed a February deadline to report to Congress on who was responsible for Khashoggi's death. In Saudi Arabia, 11 suspects have been indicted in the murder, and officials have rejected accusations that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing.

 

The report was required after lawmakers last year triggered a provision of the 2016 Global Magnitsky human rights act requiring that a Trump administration investigation.

 

"The Senate needs to act. Otherwise, Global Magnitsky will have no consequence and any administration, this one or another, can just ignore it," Menendez said.

 

Senator Jim Risch, the committee's Republican chairman, has not joined the criticism of the administration, but has sought more information.

 

"This is a work in progress, and we will not let it go," Risch said in a written statement after the briefing. It said written material from the State Department was being reviewed.

 

Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Riyadh government, was killed at a Saudi consulate in Turkey in October. His death fuelled simmering discontent in Washington over Saudi Arabia's human rights record and heavy civilian casualties in Yemen's civil war, where a Saudi-led coalition is fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

 

Last month, the Democratic-led House of Representatives approved a rare war powers resolution that would end U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. 

 

The timing of a Senate vote is uncertain.

 

(Reporting by Patricia Zengerle; Editing by Sonya Hepinstall)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-03-05

 

[mtls2005]

trump is not going to rock the Saudi "boat".

 

But you have to hand it to "The Bonesaw Squad", they are ruthlessly efficient. Reminds me of the clean-up crew in John Wick.

 

 

Saudis likely burned Jamal Khashoggi in an oven. And then cooked meat in it: Bombshell report

 

furnace gaping beneath overhanging leaves in a paved Istanbul yard could hide a terrifying secret -- the final cruelty meted out to a dissident journalist.

 

A report by Al-Jazeera, a television channel based in Qatar, lays out the ghastly details: After Jamal Khashoggi was killed by Saudi operatives inside Riyadh's consulate in October, his body was likely incinerated in that oven.

 

This disposal, if it happened, is blood-curdling not just because of the fate of its victim but also for its location.

 

https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/jamal-khashoggi-burned-in-oven-saudi-consulate-general-turkey-report-1470054-2019-03-04

Edited March 5, 2019 by mtls2005

[IAMHERE]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

U.S. resident journalist

Did he have the correct visa to be working in America ?  

[mtls2005]

6 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Did he have the correct visa to be working in America ?  

Yes, an "O" visa (Genius category), believe this is the one Melania Knavvs (trump) used to kick-start her modeling career.

 

Khashoggi was in the process of applying to become a Lawful Permanent Resident/Green Card holder.

 

 

 

 

[Prissana Pescud]

12 minutes ago, IAMHERE said:

Did he have the correct visa to be working in America ?  

Because you obviously believe that if he did not have the visa, it is ok what the Crown Prince ordered.

Washing your hands it is called.

But he did have the interim visa and still your president acts as if he is owned and owed by the Saudis