A pro-democracy group in the United States launched a campaign against the Saudi crown prince, Mohammad bin Salman, accusing him of planning and abetting the crime of killing the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul.
That was how the millions of dollar paid by Bin Salman to ameliorate his image in the West failed to achieve the target and left the Saudi crisis-hit leader in his quagmire.
Reserved advertisements on trucks wandered the Washington DC and showed Bin Salman with blood-stained hands.
“We deserve democracy, not Mr. Bone-saw the crown prince,” reads one of the advertisements, referring to the crown prince as ‘Mr. Bone-saw’.
Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist who lived in the US at the time of his death, was murdered at Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate in October 2018. His body was later dismembered.
Saudi Arabia initially issued conflicting versions about his disappearance, but eventually claimed that he had been killed in a “rogue” operation, without owning responsibility.
US intelligence agencies earlier this year admitted that the notorious Saudi crown prince had ordered the killing of Khashoggi, a strong critic of the Saudi rulers, and then tried to eliminate the evidence.
Joe Biden, who promised during his election campaign to hold the Saudi leader accountable for the murder, later said he was not going to hold a head of the state accountable for the crime.
Source: Al-Manar English Website and other websites
