Durbin opposes Saudi arms sale over missing journalist
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Sunday that President Trump should end the United States's arms deal with Saudi Arabia over the country's apparent role in the disappearance of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi.
Durbin, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, said in a statement Sunday that he spoke this weekend with Khalid bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, and told him that "he should expect a very negative response" if the country is complicit in Khashoggi's suspected death.
I told Ambassador bin Salman that he should expect a very negative response from both sides of the aisle in Congress if Mr. Khashoggi was in fact kidnapped and murdered. And if that is the case, I do not believe the U.S. should continue to be party to supporting the Saudis in the bloodshed in Yemen -- a halt that is long overdue given the humanitarian disaster resulting from that conflict," Durbin said.
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The U.S. has supported Saudi Arabia in Yemen's civil war with billions of dollars in arms sales.
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