Jamal Khasiji: Us to make public report of jamal khasiji murder

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Jamal Khasiji was associated with several international broadcasts 

In the United States, President Joe Biden's administration is making preparations for the release of a secret report on the investigation into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khasiji, which is commonly believed to have blamed the killing on Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman.

According to the US House of The President, the President has read this report and will now speak to Saudi Arabia's Fara Waa Shah Salman soon. 

President Biden plans to "re-arrange" America's relationship with Saudi Arabia. 

Jamal Khasiji, an American journalist and representative of the Us newspaper Washington Post, was mercilessly killed in the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul in 2018. Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman denied all allegations of involvement in the killing by Saudi officials inside the Saudi Embassy building. 

Saudi officials said a team of Saudi agents was sent to bring Jamal Khasiji to Saudi Arabia and died due to worsening conditions during the operation. 

A Saudi Court sentenced five officials to death for the murder, but in September last year, they were reduced to 20 years in prison. 

What do we know about the report? 

The report is believed to be made public at some time on Thursday. British news agency Reuters, in a reference to four unknown US officials, claimed that the report said Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had approved the killing of Jamal Khasiji and issued "orders" possibly. 

More than a report of Jamal Khasiji's murder is a probe by the US intelligence agency, THE CIA, these officials added. 

Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia said Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had no knowledge of the murder. But in 2019, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in a statement that because the killing was caused by negligence by Saudi officials, he accepts responsibility for the killing as one of the most important members of the Saudi Arabian government. 

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Donald Trump had personal ties with Prince Mohammed bin Salman through his son-in-chief 

US broadcasting AGENCY NEWS reported that the intelligence analysis was not new and was based on a CIA investigation that was widely published in 2018, which President Donald Trump later denied. 

The analysis said there was no concrete evidence of Mohammed bin Salman's involvement, but Us officials believe that such action cannot be taken without the approval of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. 

The Washington Post, a US journal for which Jamal Khasiji worked, said the cia investigation was based on phone calls that were made after the assassination of Khalid bin Salman, brother of Saudi Ambassador to the United States Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. 

Prince Khalid, who is also the country's deputy defence minister, reportedly called Jamal Khasiji on the direction of his brother Muhammad bin Salman to assure him that he should go to the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul and he would not be called anything. Prince Khalid had denied talking to Jamal Khasiji. 

In 2019, Un Special Representative Agenis Callamadrid accused the State of Saudi Arabia of 'murdering Jamal Khashidi' 'with a sense of thinking' and called the murder case a mockery of justice. 

Why is this issue being raised now? 

Publishing the investigation report into the assassination of Jamal Khasiji is part of Us President Joe Biden's policy of re-indexing Us relations with Saudi Arabia and is more harsh about Saudi Arabia than former President Donald Trump's policy. 

The Trump administration rejected legal requirements to make the murder investigation report public based on improving relations with Saudi Arabia. 

White House spokesman John Paaskey said Wednesday that President Biden will speak directly to Saudi ruler Fara Waa Shah Salman and not to speak to his son Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, who is currently the ruler of Saudi Arabia. 

A White House spokesman said this would be the first talks with King Salman, the 85-year-old ruler of Saudi Arabia, after President Biden came to power. 

He had told media representatives that "We made it clear immediately after coming to power that we would re-review our relations with Saudi Arabia. ' 

The new Administration has already made several significant policy changes in this regard. President Biden has ended his support for the Saudi-led war against Yemen and has stopped selling arms to Saudi Arabia. 

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Jamal Khasiji killed at Saudi Embassy in Istanbul 

How was Jamal Khasiji killed? 

Anasth-year-old journalist Jamal Khashitji was last seen on October 2, 2018, at the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. 

According to Saudi Arabia officials, they were injected to control Jamal Khashitji and they were inneed of an overdose during physical struggles, which killed him. After which their bodies were cut and handover to some local helpers. No trace of their body has been found since then. 

The information released by Turkish intelligence, including some audio material, has revealed heart-ruping details. 

Khashitji had also worked as an adviser to the Saudi Government in the past, but later began to sour in the eyes of the Saudi ruling family and left the country and left the United States in 2017. In the United States, he began writing critical columns on Muhammad bin Salman's policy for the Washington Post. 

In his first column, he wrote that he feared arrest in Saudi Arabia because Muhammad bin Salman was trying to suppress the voice of all his opponents. He had been critical of Saudi Arabia's attack on Yemen in his last column.