PressTV-‘West complicit in Saudi crimes, outrage just for show’

The West is complicit in Saudi crimes and its outrage is just for show, says Daniel Patrick Welch, an American writer and political analyst.

Maybe a minor reshuffling of some heads will take place in Saudi Arabia over the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, but no heads would roll, Welch told Press TV in an interview on Friday.

British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt on Friday warned there would be “consequences” if Saudi authorities were found to have been involved in the assassination of Khashoggi.

On Thursday, US President Donald Trump said he believes dissident Khashoggi is dead, and that the consequences should be severe for those who carried out the assassination.

“Well, this is really turning out to be the story that wouldn’t die, right? The idea that the Brits are going to have consequences for the Saudis if it turned out to be true which everyone now knows that it’s true that they killed Khashoggi,” Welch…

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