Khashoggi assassination, Bin Salman authorized blitz to capture or kill him- Corriere.it

Seven 250 kg bombs on Iranian-backed Iraqi militias. IS a four-page report to expose direct responsibility to the world of Saudi Prince Mohammed Bin Salman in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Within 24 hours, Joe Biden’s Administration takes two high impact initiatives on the scales of the Middle East.

The CIA file confirms the suspicions that spread immediately after Khashoggi was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018. A Political Assassination, Approved, CIA Analysts Write, By Bin Salman, the heir to the throne of thirty-five years, until a few months ago the privileged interlocutor of Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. Biden’s turn towards Riyadh is clear. First, it blocked important supplies of weapons; then retired support for the Saudi invasion of Yemen and has now authorized the CIA to declassify some of the investigations into the columnist of the Washington Post. On Thursday, February 25, the US president explained all this in a complicated phone call with the 85-year-old King of Saudi Arabia, Salman.

The correction towards the saudisIt is said in Washington that it could leave room for Iranian aggression. The answer came at two in the morning on Friday, February 26 (local time). An American bomber hit a building complex and some trucks with weapons in the Boukamal area, along the eastern border with Iraq. There is still no official confirmation on the number of victims. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British organization, 22 militiamen belonging to the Iranian-backed Shiite formations were killed. According to a statement released by the paramilitary groups themselves, there was only one death. The Pentagon explained that it was targeting a used base. also by Kataeb Hezbollah and Kataeb Sayyid al-Shuhada, considered responsible for the launch of missiles against the US base in Erbil, Iraq, on February 15. On that occasion, a contractor American and there were several wounded, including an American soldier. Yesterday morning Jen Psaki, a White House spokeswoman, added: Airstrike in Syria Indicates President Will Act to Protect Americans.