{"id":19332,"date":"2018-10-21T21:22:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19332"},"modified":"2018-10-21T21:22:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T21:22:06","slug":"us-congress-condemns-saudi-report-on-khashoggi-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19332","title":{"rendered":"US Congress condemns Saudi report on Khashoggi murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"66.5686653772\">\n<p>Fewer than 24 hours after calling the Saudi report on the death of journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/10\/profile-jamal-khashoggi-saudi-writer-missing-turkey-181007184026645.html\">Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> &#8220;credible&#8221;, the US president has walked back that statement, saying that there had been &#8220;deception&#8221; and &#8220;lies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>US congressional leadership was even more aggressive, calling for sanctions and an end to arms sales to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/saudi-arabia.html\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2016\/11\/profile-president-donald-trump-161109050153947.html\">Donald Trump<\/a> continues to praise Saudi Arabia as an ally and is reluctant to act on the angry calls coming from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Mike Hanaa reports from Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fewer than 24 hours after calling the Saudi report on the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi &#8220;credible&#8221;, the US president has walked back that statement, saying that there had been &#8220;deception&#8221; and &#8220;lies&#8221;. US congressional leadership was even more aggressive, calling for sanctions and an end to arms sales to Saudi Arabia. However, President Donald&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}