Khashoggi killing casts spotlight on array of human rights abuses by Saudi Arabia — and the West's willingness to overlook them
WASHINGTON - The gruesome killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside a Saudi diplomatic installation in Turkey last month has cast a world spotlight on rights abuses by the conservative desert kingdom.
But the outcry over President Donald Trump's seeming indifference - his declaration Tuesday that he was, in essence, taking the word of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over that of American intelligence agencies, which say the kingdom's young de facto ruler almost certainly authorized Khashoggi's assassination - points up another uncomfortable phenomenon: Although Western governments are often critical of the Saudi flouting of human rights standards, most are nonetheless willing to
