Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

At an event last April, Bruce Riedel, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution who has 30 years' experience as a Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, officer stated that if the United States and the United Kingdom told King Salman of Saudi Arabia on the night of the event that the war had to end, it would have ended the next day. He said the Royal Saudi Airforce cannot operate without American and British support.

The Minister has told us he has raised his objections with the Saudis. We are on good terms with the Americans and the British. Given that the war cannot continue without their help, has the Minister expressed that also to them? In view of the fact that we accept that Saudi Arabia is committing war crimes and is in breach of international law, have we considered imposing trade sanctions on it?

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