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Pompeo dismisses Khashoggi as ‘activist’ whose murder was overblown by media

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In a new book, Mike Pompeo derides the idea that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributing columnist who was brutally murdered in 2018, was a journalist. Pompeo sympathizes instead with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, and defends at length the United States' relationship with Saudi Arabia. In his book, Pompeo seems to give Mohammed the benefit of the doubt.

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Pompeo dismisses Khashoggi as ‘activist’ whose murder was overblown by media

Pompeo sympathizes instead with Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia who was found to have ordered Khashoggi’s assassination, and defends at length the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia.

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Pompeo dismisses Khashoggi as ‘activist’ whose murder was overblown by media

Khashoggi's killing "wasn't remotely the kind of action that should cause the United States to abandon an important partner," Pompeo writes in his new book.

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The Washington Post broke the news in on Tuesday, January 24, 2023.
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