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Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has mentioned to the US president the abuses of the military in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan, saying that the US has also made mistakes, writes the British Daily Mail.
Western agencies said the prince’s comments were in response to Biden’s comments about the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi at their first meeting on Friday night in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
A US intelligence report held the Crown Prince responsible for the 2018 assassination of Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
A Saudi official told Reuters that the prince told Biden that the US has also made mistakes, including gross human rights abuses at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison.
At the start of the Iraq war, detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison were regularly tortured by US forces, and 11 US officers were convicted of crimes exposed by the scandal.
The Saudi prince also spoke to Biden about shared values but added that imposing these values on other countries could backfire.
“Trying to impose these values by force can have the opposite effect, as happened in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the US did not succeed,” said the Saudi statement to the Reuters agency.
Biden has led the chaotic withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan, after a 20-year military involvement since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Taliban militants quickly took control of the country after the US left.
Biden told reporters that in the first meeting he had mentioned the Khashoggi case.
“I brought up Khashoggi’s murder from the beginning of the meeting, to make it clear that I think the same as then. What happened to Khashoggi was terrible,” said Biden.
Biden did not mention the issues raised by the prince for Iraq and Afghanistan but admitted that the US does not have all the clean data.
“No one does everything right, including the US,” Biden said, but added that his country has not executed dissidents.
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