The White House will not say whether President Biden will mention Jamal Khashoggi by name during meetings with Saudi officials this week, despite Khashoggi’s widows saying the administration assured her he would. Biden will meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) later this week after his appearances in Israel. Khashoggi’s widow, Hanan Elatr Khashoggi, met with White House officials last week and says she was assured Khashoggi’s name would come up. “We don’t usually preview the private conversations we have with other leaders before they take place, but President Biden took action on the Khashoggi killing immediately after taking office,” the White House told Fox News Digital on Thursday. “The President’s views on human rights are clear and long-standing, and fundamental freedoms are always on the agenda when he travels abroad, as they will be on this trip,” he continued. BIDEN DEFENDS SAUDI ARABIA TRIP AS OFFER TO ‘STRENGTHEN A STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP’ IN WAPO OP-ED A director general of Alarab TV, Jamal Khashoggi, looks on during a press conference in Bahrain’s capital Manama on December 15, 2014. (MOHAMMED AL-SHAIKH/AFP via Getty Images) President Biden speaks on inflation and supply chain issues in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) BIDEN SUCCEEDS IN MIDDLE EAST TO CONCERT IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL TO CONCERNED ISRAEL, SAUDI ARABIA Khashoggi was infamously murdered and dismembered during a visit to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul In 2018. Turkish officials claimed he was assassinated by a Saudi team sent to Istanbul expressly for this purpose. Khashoggi was a US resident and Washington Post writer who was highly critical of MBS. When Biden first took office, his administration promised to treat the Saudis as a “pariah state,” but Biden has softened the regime as global gas prices have soared. But former Saudi intelligence official Saad Aljabri argues that Biden was right to keep the regime at arm’s length. “I’m here to sound the alarm about a psychopathic, murderous, Middle East with infinite resources, who is a threat to his people, to Americans and to the planet,” Aljabri said of MBS in an interview with “60 Minutes” on Tuesday. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “A psychopath with no empathy, no emotion, has never learned from his experience. And we have witnessed atrocities and crimes committed by this killer,” he added. Aljabri says it’s only a matter of time before MBS kills him.
