Four Saudi Arabian citizens who took part in the killing of the Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi (pictured), were trained in a camp based in the United States, the New York Times reported citing people familiar with the arrangement.
The training for the Saudis, including "safe marksmanship" and "countering an attack" was provided by the Tier 1 Group, which is owned by the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, and based in Arkansas, the report explained.
"There is no evidence that the American officials who approved the training or Tier 1 Group executives knew that the Saudis were involved in the crackdown inside Saudi Arabia. But the fact that the government approved high-level military training for operatives who went on to carry out the grisly killing of a journalist shows how intensely intertwined the United States has become with an autocratic nation even as its agents carried out horrific human rights abuses," the outlet's source concluded.
