Saudi Prince Accepts Responsibility for Khashoggi Killing, but Denies Involvement – South Asia Time

Saudi Prince Accepts Responsibility for Khashoggi Killing, but Denies Involvement

 September 26, 2019  

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman said the murder of government critic and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi “happened under my watch,” but without his knowledge, Frontline PBS reported.

“I get all the responsibility because it happened under my watch,” the prince was cited as saying in a documentary by PBS’s Frontline. Frontline said the crown prince made the comments in December 2018, two months after the murder in the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. The prince blamed unnamed officials for acting without his knowledg.