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Trump: ‘Rogue killers’ might have killed Saudi journalist

WASHINGTON, Oct 15, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – US President Donald Trump said Monday
he’d received a strong denial from Saudi Arabia’s king of any involvement in
the disappearance of a critical journalist and that “rogue killers” might be
to blame.

“The denial was very, very strong,” Trump told reporters at the White
House after talking to King Salman by telephone. “It sounded to me like maybe
these could have been rogue killers. Who knows?”

Trump said that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was on his way to Saudi
Arabia within the hour to discuss the controversy over journalist Jamal
Khashoggi, a contributor to The Washington Post who vanished after visiting
the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

BSS/AFP/FI/ 1958 hrs