The curse of Khashoggi’s blood haunts Mohammed bin Salman, and this is what happened in Congress
Watan-The name of the Saudi journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi returned to prominence in the United States Senate after years since his assassination. He was killed by Saudi intelligence under the orders of Mohammed bin Salman inside his country’s consulate in Istanbul in 2018, where his body was dismembered with a bone saw.
Khashoggi, who had previously worked at the Saudi embassy in Washington, was an active critic of the “repression campaign” carried out by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, which involved the arrest of citizens demanding more freedom of expression and democratic reforms.
In 2018, Khashoggi was warned not to return to his country, and he settled in northern Virginia, where he was previously married and had children. Later, the Saudi journalist moved to Turkey, and when he visited the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document, he was brutally assassinated.
Upon entering the consulate building, Khashoggi was killed by a team of 12 individuals, and his body was dismembered with a bone saw.
“Would the government of India have dared to target individuals in Canada and the United States if the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi had been met with more forceful accountability measures for each and every Saudi official involved in his death?”
Q on Khashoggi at a hearing…— عبدالله العودة (@aalodah) January 18, 2024
Jamal Khashoggi is present in the U.S. Senate.
The presence of Jamal Khashoggi was noted during a session held by the Senate Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Counterterrorism, and Intelligence. This information was shared by Abdullah Al-Ouda, the son of the detained Saudi preacher Salman Al-Ouda, on his “X” platform account.
Al-Ouda mentioned that Khashoggi’s name was brought up in the U.S. Senate as part of an investigation into cross-border repression carried out by Saudi Arabia, which led to the assassination of the Saudi journalist.
More than five years after his assassination and the dismemberment of his body, Khashoggi’s name was still being discussed in connection with the investigation. Al-Ouda affirmed that “the curse of his blood haunts those who today seek to wash his blood with the blood of the martyrs of Gaza and seek normalization with the occupation regime.”
Mohammed bin Salman combines repression and betrayal
Regarding the assassination case of Jamal Khashoggi, Al-Ouda emphasized that “the administration of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Saudi Arabia has combined repression and betrayal” due to its pursuit of normalization with the occupation despite the events in Gaza.
The United States had granted political asylum to Hatice Cengiz, the widow of the late Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi, after years of her husband’s assassination. According to U.S. intelligence reports, the Saudi journalist was killed on orders from the highest levels of the Saudi state following his dispute with the authorities.
