Biden greets Saudi Crown Prince MBS he once ripped as ‘pariah’ with warm handshake at G20 summit
By Mary Kay Linge
Published Sep. 9, 2023, 6:31 p.m. ET
President Biden bestowed a warm handshake on Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Saturday — flashing a big grin while chatting up the man he once ripped as an international “pariah.”
The friendly three-way clasp with the prince and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi came Saturday at the G20 summit in New Delhi — 14 months after Biden’s notorious fist-bump with the de facto Saudi leader, who has been accused of a string of human rights abuses.
In 2021, the US intelligence community found that the crown prince known as MBS ordered a 2018 operation that led to the brutal dismemberment death of a prominent critic, opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi, inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
During his presidential campaign, Biden sharply criticized MBS for Khashoggi’s killing, threatening that his White House would make the Saudis “pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are.”
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