The defendants were not named but all are believed to be members of a 15-man hit squad that traveled from Saudi Arabia to Turkey. “Saudi Arabia takes these crimes seriously and prosecutes violators to the full extent of the law,” said the spokesman, Fahad S. Nazer. Saudi Arabia is one of the U.S. defense industry’s biggest foreign customers, purchasing billions of dollars’ worth of military hardware every year. Scores of those accounts — many of them subsequently blocked by Twitter — had been involved in attacks against Khashoggi, Soufan said. “They use Twitter Arabic to tell people, ‘We’re monitoring you, and we know what you’re doing,’ ” he said.

Source: Washington Post September 07, 2020 22:15 UTC