Prince Turki al-Faisal says his appearance last year on a panel with former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy does not represent a normalizing of relations
24 November 2018
A prominent Saudi royal said Saturday that whether or not heads of state gathered in Argentina next week for the Group of 20 summit warmly engage with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he is someone “that they have to deal with.”
Prince Turki al-Faisal told The Associated Press the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul last month is “an unacceptable incident that tars and mars the long record of Saudi Arabia’s own standing in the world.”
“We will have to bear that. It’s not something that should not be faced. And we do face it,” he said.
Intelligence officials and analysts say the operation to kill Khashoggi, who wrote critically of the crown prince for The Washington Post, could not have happened without Prince Mohammed’s knowledge. The kingdom, which has offered several conflicting accounts of the killing, denies the crown prince had any involvement.
Read more at https://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-royal-laments-khashoggis-killing-but-denies-crown-prince-ordered-slaying
