Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Germany will stop exporting weapons to Saudi Arabia, at least for the time being. The decision comes in the wake of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at a Saudi consulate.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that Germany would put arms exports to the kingdom on hold for the time being, given the unexplained circumstances of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi's death.
The chancellor said Riyadh had not put the full facts of Khashoggi's demise "on the table."
"First, we condemn this act in the strongest terms," she told a news conference after speaking to members of her Christian Democrat (CDU) party.
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4 comments:
Wow there's a whole lot more angst in transnational progressive mob over this Khashoggi killing than there ever was over the four men - including an Ambassador - who were killed in Benghazi in 2012.
Sorry Saudi Arabia, gotta get your broomsticks from someone else.
Good point, Russ.
I can't figure it out. Is it a country's standing in the politically-correct-whim-of-moment league?
This will go down as one of the most costly murders in history. Whoops
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