lunedì 11 febbraio 2019

I don't. We don't.

MARGARET BRENNAN: The intelligence community, though, had a very different conclusion here and after the CIA director briefed Congress on the details of what the CIA had found, the Senate then passed a bill saying undoubtedly the crown prince knew about what happened. ADEL AL-JUBEIR: I don't know what the CIA briefed them but I don't- I believe that the same briefing that the president and the secretary of state and the secretary of defense at the time received did not point in that direction. So I think there's a- there's- there may be emotions here, there may be exaggerations here. MARGARET BRENNAN: Have you been briefed on what the CIA determined? ADEL AL-JUBEIR: I personally have not. No. But we have communications with them through intelligence channels. MARGARET BRENNAN: Exactly. And that intelligence relationship is one of the strongest assets of the work between our two countries. So I know you would think highly of the CIA and its assessment. When it comes to your own internal investigations, in October is when this murder happened. ADEL AL-JUBEIR: Yes. MARGARET BRENNAN: Where is Jamal Khashoggi's body? ADEL AL-JUBEIR: We don't know. MARGARET BRENNAN: What do you mean you don't know? ADEL AL-JUREIB: We don't know. They said that the- the public prosecutor is working to try to establish this fact. We have asked for evidence from Turkey, and he asked them several times, formally, through formal legal channels to provide evidence. We are still waiting to receive any evidence they may have. MARGARET BRENNAN: You're blaming the Turkish government? ADEL AL-JUBEIR: No, I'm blaming the murderers who committed this crime. MARGARET BRENNAN: You have them, you say, in custody though. ADEL AL-JUBEIR: Yes. MARGARET BRENNAN: They can't tell you where the body is? ADEL AL-JUBEIR: We are still investigating. There- we have now- a number of- of possibilities and we're asking them what they did with the body, and I think this investigation is ongoing, and I would expect that eventually we will find the truth.

Lo stanno usando in quella che in ottica saudita dovrebbe essere una "semplice" fase di transizione dal momento che, come ribadito più volte in questi giorni dallo stesso Al Jubeir, la leadership incarnata da Mohammed bin Salman costituisce una linea rossa.
Adel Al Jubeir ha sempre rappresentato un'ottima interfaccia per la galassia di riferimento americana.
Soprattutto in momenti difficili come questo del post-Khashoggi.
Una volta ripristinato il consueto scenario di relazioni, dovrebbe entrare in azione in maniera più incisiva a dettare le regole del gioco, il nuovo ministro Al Assaf .
Ad Al Jubeir dovrebbe essere lasciato comunque l'incarico di gestire le relazioni in regione.
Vista l'incertezza del momento, anche quel ruolo potrebbe essergli alla fine precluso.

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