SAUDI ARABIA’S campaign to restore its international reputation kicked into high gear this last week. It’s in the interest of the United States and its allies, as well as Saudi Arabia itself, that this strategy fail. A top aide who oversaw the Khashoggi murder and the torture of female activists, Saud al-Qahtani, remains active. A United Nations investigator who launched her own probe, special rapporteur Agnes Callamard, this last week was denied access to the crime scene at the Saudi Consulate when she visited Istanbul. But success by Mohammed bin Salman in resuming normal relations will have bad long-term consequences.

Source: Washington Post February 03, 2019 00:11 UTC