Khashoggi affair: "the Biden administration realizes that they will have to deal with MBS, the strongman of the country"
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The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, in Diriya (Saudi Arabia), December 7, 2019. Saudi Royal Palace / AFP / Archives
By: Jean-Baptiste Marot Follow
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The CIA made public, Friday, February 26 in the United States, a report in which Washington accuses Mohammed ben Salman of having "validated" the assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal khashoggi in Istanbul in October 2018. Also according to the document, the prince Saudi heir has such power over the security services of his country that it is "very unlikely" that such an operation could have taken place "without his green light".
In short: for American intelligence, the man who decided on Jamal Khashoggi's death is MBS.
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What consequences can this episode have on relations between Washington and Riyadh?
Our international guest is
Pascal Ménoret
, anthropologist, historian, Arabist, teacher at Brandeis University in Boston in the United States, also author of several books on Saudi Arabia including
Kingdom of Asphalt: Saudi Youth in Revolt
, published by editions La Decouverte / Wildproject.
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