UAE Warns against 'Destabilizing' KSA over Khashoggi
The United Arab Emirates warned Friday that the growing controversy over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi should not be exploited to "destabilize" Saudi Arabia.
The UAE state minister for foreign affairs, Anwar Gargash, tweeted that Abu Dhabi was "firmly" opposed to "politicization (of the case) and efforts to destabilize Saudi Arabia," its close ally.
Pro-government Turkish media have repeatedly claimed that Khashoggi, a Saudi dissident and U.S. resident who wrote for the Washington Post, was tortured and decapitated by a Saudi hit squad inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, although Turkey has yet to divulge details about the investigation.
But the controversy has already put the kingdom -- for decades a key Western ally and bulwark against Iran in the Middle East -- under unprecedented pressure amid reports it is scrambling to provide an explanation to take the heat off its rulers.
It is also a major crisis for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a favorite of the Trump administration who has portrayed himself as a modernizing Arab reformer, but whose image and even position at home could now be gravely undermined.
19 October 2018, 21:20
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That's what our police chief here in Portland, Maine, said after his officer shot dead an African-American man who'd previously been waving an air rifle around. It should not be "politicized", said the chief.
20 October 2018, 02:09
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BS is an American stooge, comparing him to Nasser is blasphemy. In fact, the Saudis tried to weaken Nasser by supporting the Muslim Brotherhood back then, with help from their American owners.
20 October 2018, 09:59
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Rightful pan arab leaders that bows down to American and Israel. How is that anything Pan arab.
Go cut some of your journalists to pieces, that is your specialism.
