Saudi prince calls murder of WaPo journo a ‘painful’ mistake; defends $2B investment in Jared Kushner
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Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman admitted there were “mistakes” made in the brutal 2018 death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi — an ambush that the CIA concluded could have only happened with bin Salman’s direct approval.
In his first interview with a major American news network in roughly four years, bin Salman told Fox News’s “Special Report” executive editor and host Bret Baier that “everyone involved” in the journalist’s death is behind bars and must “face the law.”
“We take all the legal measurements that any country took … We did that in Saudi Arabia and the case being closed,” the Saudi leader said. “Also, we try to reform the security system to be sure that these kind of mistakes doesn’t happen again, and we can see in the past five years nothing of those things happened. It’s not part of what Saudi Arabia do.”
“It was a mistake,” he said. “It was painful. And we are trying our best to be sure that we reform our system to work by the book and to be sure that everyone that is safe, not in Saudi, but the whole globe.”
BREAKING: In an interview in English with @BretBaier, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman calls the brutal assassination of US-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi on his orders, according to US assessment, a mistake, says mistakes happen, says it was painful, says… pic.twitter.com/MtcmkRf4qu
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 20, 2023
With respect to the $2 billion investment into Jared Kushner from bin Salman’s Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF), the leader said it would remain in place, even if Kushner’s father-in-law, former President Donald Trump, is re-elected in 2024, despite concerns that it would be seen as a conflict of interest.
“If it’s legal, what’s the problem?” bin Salman asked.
“We look for opportunities in investment,” he explained. “We have a lot of investment around the globe with a lot of people with economic opportunity.”
“It’s a commitment that PIF have and when PIF have a commitment with any investor around the globe, we keep it,” he said.
Pressed on the potential conflict of interest, bin Salman said, “Saudi Arabia is so big, so I’m quite sure mostly any person around the world directly or indirectly you have something to do with Saudi Arabia.”
“So if that can affect President Trump’s decision if he becomes a President, that means it can affect every president in the world and every person in the world’s decision,” he stated. “Because directly and indirectly they have some sort of interest in something to do with Saudi Arabia.”
JUST IN: In an interview in English with @BretBaier, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman says President Biden is ‘sharp, focused and well prepared’, confirms the $ 2 billion investment in Jared Kushner’s firm, talks about Trump. WATCH pic.twitter.com/AOxN2H54hi
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 20, 2023
The crown prince also denied that the Saudi government had anything to do with the attacks on America on September 11, 2001, despite that 15 of the 19 hijackers who executed the plan were Saudi citizens.
The mastermind, he insisted, was Usama bin Laden, who also planned and executed multiple attacks on Saudi Arabia.
“It doesn’t make any sense that we work with a guy who is doing terrorist attacks in Saudi Arabia in the ’90s and, after that, killing Saudis and foreign people at that time in Saudi Arabia,” bin Salman said. “He’s our enemy and he’s the American enemy.”
BREAKING: In an interview in English with @BretBaier, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman denies that the Saudi government was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks that massacred nearly 3,000 Americans. He says the 15 Saudis who murdered Americans were working for… pic.twitter.com/zzaVdlXDgG
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 20, 2023
Perhaps most concerning was bin Salman’s reaction to the $6 billion of frozen assets to which the Biden administration recently gave Iran access for “humanitarian purposes” as part of a prisoner swap for five detained American citizens.
Many fear Iran will use that money to further its acquisition of nuclear weapons. Should that happen, bin Salman said that Saudi Arabia would follow suit.
“If they get one, we have to get one,” he said, to balance the power in the Middle East.
“The world cannot see another Hiroshima,” he stated.
Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in an interview said that if Iran acquired a nuclear weapon, Saudi Arabia would do the same. He emphasised on the futility of nuclear weapons. pic.twitter.com/1qiKrLZOE4
— Shuvankar Biswas (@manamuntu) September 21, 2023
As for his nation’s relations with Israel, bin Salman is optimistic about the negotiations for peace.
“Every day we get closer,” he stated.
Mohammed bin Salman revealed to Fox News that talks between Saudi Arabia and israel are ongoing, refuting reports of suspended discussions, and stated that Saudi Arabia is moving closer to normalizing relations with israel every day. pic.twitter.com/3nvcvzYAss
— Augustine Chikadibia (@AChikadibi5200) September 21, 2023
You can watch Baier’s entire interview with Mohammed bin Salman below:
MBS the reformer.
Saudi Crown Prince HRH Mohammed Bin Salman speaks exclusively to Fox News on the future of Saudi Arabia and the pace of change he plans to implement in the Kingdom, as well as in the region.
Discusses Israel, India, US, Russia, Ukraine and how if Iranians get… pic.twitter.com/o3Gni4Hpjb
— Dan Qayyum (@DanQayyum) September 21, 2023
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