...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's consulate in Istanbul was a violation of international law, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday.
The top U.S. diplomat nonetheless stressed that he wanted to preserve the decades-old alliance with Saudi Arabia and declined explicitly to criticize Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016...., who has been consolidating power.
"It's an awful thing that took place," Pompeo told conservative talk show host Brian Kilmeade.
"The killing, the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the consulate in
...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund....
violates the norms of international law. That much is very, very clear," he said.
His remarks came as Turkey's chief prosecutor said that Khashoggi, a critic of the palace who lived in self-imposed exile in suburban Washington, was strangled as soon as he entered the Istanbul consulate, with his body then dismembered.
Pompeo, who was not asked directly about the