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Khashoggi: US Senators debate ways to punish Saudi crown prince

The Eagle Online by The Eagle Online
December 7, 2018
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US senators, bent on punishing Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, for the killing of journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, said on Thursday they want to vote next week.
The vote is intended to penalise Riyadh, but the senators are struggling to agree on how best to do so.
In spite of President Donald Trump’s desire to maintain close ties to Saudi Arabia, several of his fellow Republicans have joined Democrats in blaming the crown prince for Khashoggi’s death.
They are also backing legislation to respond by ending US support for the Saudi-led war effort in Yemen, imposing new sanctions and stopping weapons sales.
But others strongly oppose linking the Yemen conflict with the killing of the journalist.
“It would be a mistake to fracture that relationship with the Saudis.
‘It’s not based on friendship as much as it’s based on common interests, combating extremism in the Middle East and countering the Iranian threat,” said Senator John Cornyn, the chamber’s No. 2 Republican.
Five Republican and Democratic senators met behind closed doors on Thursday morning to discuss how to move ahead.
They said   afterward they had not yet come up with a compromise that could win enough bipartisan support to pass the Senate.
The lack of agreement contrasted with some senators’ harsh words on Tuesday against the crown prince, the de facto ruler of the kingdom.
The prince has denied knowledge of the operation that killed Khashoggi on October 2 in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
A briefing by Central Intelligence Agency Director, Gina Haspel, for senators on Tuesday hardened their resolve to act against the prince known as MbS, who has the support of Trump.
There are three different measures making their way through the Senate: a war powers resolution ending any US involvement in the Yemen conflict, legislation imposing a broad clampdown on Saudi Arabia, including ending arms sales and levying new sanctions; and a nonbinding resolution targeting the crown prince.
The Senate is expected to vote on the war powers resolution next week, but lawmakers have not yet agreed on how, or whether, it should be amended.
Some have questioned whether the resolution is even legal.
Others said they want a response to Khashoggi’s death but agree with the Trump administration that Washington should continue to back the Saudis as an essential counterweight to Iran.
Saudi Arabia is leading a campaign in Yemen against the Houthis, Shi’ite Muslim fighters that Yemen’s neighbors view as agents of Iran.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people and created the world’s most urgent humanitarian crisis.
No fewer than 14 Republicans, who hold a slim majority in the Senate and rarely break from the president, have already defied Trump and voted with Democrats in favour of moving ahead with the war powers resolution.
But to become law, the resolution would not just have to pass the Senate this month, but also must pass the House of Representatives and be signed by Trump, neither of which is expected this year.
However, backers said Senate passage alone would still be an important step.
“A vote on the resolution is a very tough message to Saudi Arabia that the relationship is changing.
“And you can interpret that as a message on the Yemen war, but you can also interpret that as a message on Khashoggi,” Democratic Senator Chris Murphy, a co-sponsor, told reporters.
It was not immediately clear whether the broader legislation would come up for a Senate vote before lawmakers go home for the year and a new Congress is seated in January, or whether some provisions might be added to the war powers measure.
Republican Senator, Bob Corker, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is retiring this month, said he hoped to hold a hearing early next week on the broader legislation.
Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the most vocal critics of Saudi Arabia who is close to Trump, introduced the Senate resolution with two other Republicans and three Democrats.
That measure is intended to hold the Saudi crown prince “accountable” for contributing to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen, a blockade of Qatar, the jailing of dissidents and Khashoggi’s death.
However, the measure imposes no penalties on Riyadh.
Graham said he supported the idea of stopping US aid for the war in Yemen, but thought the war powers resolution was not constitutional.
Many lawmakers have been calling for months for an end to US refueling of Saudi jets that bomb Yemen, often killing civilians.
But the murder of Khashoggi, a US resident and Washington Post columnist, added to frustration with the kingdom and prompted even stronger demands for a shift in relations.

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