INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman pointed to American abuse in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan as he told
President Joe Biden Friday that the US made &mistakes& too.This was in response to Biden&s comments to MBS & as the crown prince is called &
on the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.The United States also made a number of mistakes like the incident of
Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and others,& the crown prince told Biden, a Saudi official told Reuters.In the early part of the Iraq War,
detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison were tortured by United States forces, with 11 Americans convicted of crimes related to the
scandal.While MBS reportedly spoke to Biden about shared values & he also said pushing those values on other countries could
backfire.However trying to impose those values by force could have the opposite effect as it happened in Iraq and Afghanistan where the
United States was unsuccessful,& the statement from the Saudi official to Reuters said.Biden oversaw a chaotic US withdrawal from
Afghanistan, after a 20-year military involvement.After his meeting with MBS, Biden told reporters that he brought up Khashoggi&s killing
first thing.In respect to the murder of Khashoggi, I raised it at the top of the meeting, making it clear what I thought of it at the time,
and what I think of it now,& Biden said
&I was straightforward and direct … I made my view crystal clear,& he said.Biden did not mention that MBS brought up the Iraq and
Afghanistan wars, as a Saudi official claimed.During Biden&s remarks to MBS and other Arab leaders Saturday, the president conceded the US
hasn''t had a perfect track record.No country gets it right all the time & even most of the time & including the United States,& Biden
said.The post Saudi crown prince tells Biden US made ‘mistake& in Afghanistan: Saudi official first appeared on Ariana News.
