Posted on 06/15/2022 2:59:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — One month ahead of President Joe Biden’s trip to Saudi Arabia, the District of Columbia is renaming the street in front of the Saudi embassy Jamal Khashoggi Way, trolling Riyadh for its role in the killing of the dissident Saudi activist and journalist in 2018.
With members of the D.C. Council in attendance, a Jamal Khashoggi Way sign was unveiled directly in front of the embassy’s main entrance.
“We intend to remind the people who are hiding behind these doors ... that we hold them responsible and we will hold them accountable for the murder of our friend,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of DAWN, the pro-Arab world democracy organization founded by Khashoggi prior to his death.
Whitson also criticized what she called the “shameless capitulation” of the Biden administration for seeking improved relations with the Saudi government and scheduling an official presidential visit to the kingdom.
The D.C. Council unanimously voted late last year to rename a one-block stretch for Khashoggi. The renaming is ceremonial, as signified by the brown street sign instead of the usual green, and it won’t impact the embassy’s mailing address. But the sign will remain indefinitely. An email to the Saudi Embassy seeking comment did not receive a response.
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Utter morons.....
very helpful, children.
Done on purpose to make sure we don’t get Saudi oil? Keep the pump price high and slowdown/destroy EVERYTHING here.
That should alleviate the oil crisis.
They should have renamed it “World Trade Center Boulevard.”
Or maybe “Send Us More Oil Street.”
I have nothing but disgust for that city council.
You really have to give it up for these morons.
Saudi Arabia should name the street in front of the US Embassy MAGA Avenue.
Just maybe the Saudis will move their embassy next door to Pelosi’s WDC home.
That’s a darn good idea! What’s fair is fair.
Each state gets to govern DC for a one-year term. Rotate through all the states and start at the top when all 50 have had their turn.
Can you imagine how whip-sawed they would be? Everybody would flee this crap-hole district.
Khashoggi played the game and lost. Never surrender your cell phone to spooks. They have Pegasus software that can pull everything off your cell.
OK, if that’s the way it is then perhaps when the GOP takes over the house and senate, they can rename the street in front of the capitol after Ashli Babbitt.
“Saudi Arabia should name the street in front of the US Embassy MAGA Avenue.”
Hahahaha, and include some FJB signs for good measure.
“Whitson also criticized what she called the “shameless capitulation” of the Biden administration for seeking improved relations with the Saudi government and scheduling an official presidential visit to the kingdom.”
Yeah, Joe tried to figure out a way to import Venezuelan oil in violation of sanctions, he’s currently urging American companies to import Russian fertilizer. He’ll be groveling in front of the Saudis begging them to pump more oil while he’s destroying America with his energy policy here at home. Just sickening.
It was well known that Khashoggi was an Al Qaeda acolyte. He was the first journalist to get an audience with Osama Bin Laden after he fled Saudi Arabia (where he was under house arrest); he arrived in Pakistan, and then moved to the Sudan where the interview was held. In Europe its media greatly distrusted him. Nevertheless, his support in the United States came from the left wing, the same people who today are advising Biden and really want nothing to do with a Saudi rapprochement.
I think the Russians held a public contest on renaming the street on which the US embassy in Moscow sits and “Heroes of the Donbas Blvd” won.
In related news the embassy was formally renamed the “Lunden Alexis Roberts” Building.
It’s architectural features include an elevated walk way into the building with a solid brass pole going from the top of the building to the basement level.
An art exhibit with mattresses, crack pipes and artistic rendering and impressionist paintings of a naked old man sitting on a rocking chair sniffing the hair of a young girl, while what appears to be a younger male relative in a romantic embrace at his feet with a woman while another male lays naked on the ground....... with a Bronze Star on his chest.
If I was the King, I’d cancel Joe’s trip until the sign was gone.
What would YOU do if you were the Saudi king?
Cut exports by 3 million BBL per day?
Gotta wonder how useful a tool the arms-dealing Qatari agent double-dealing Khashoggi was to Deep State, for his demise to have inspired such undying hatred of SA by the Left.
It defies logic.
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