As Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s younger brother meets with officials in Washington this week, two lawmakers are pressing the Biden administration to explain whether he was included on its list of Saudis banned from entering the United States over the targeting of journalist Jamal Khashoggi and other dissidents.
Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman is the highest-profile Saudi to visit the nation’s capital since the Biden administration released a long-awaited intelligence report which assessed that the powerful crown prince approved the October 2018 operation that killed Khashoggi. The Saudi government maintains he was killed in a rogue operation and that the crown prince had no involvement.
