Saad al-Jabri who was the U.S.’s closest counterterrorism contact in the Arab world for 15 years, claims Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dispatched a hit squad to Canada to assassinate him
A former Saudi Arabian intelligence official claims Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman dispatched a hit squad to Canada to assassinate him less than two weeks after Saudi operatives killed dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, according to a civil suit filed Thursday in a U.S. court.
Saad al-Jabri, who was the U.S.’s closest counterterrorism contact in the Arab world for 15 years, fled the kingdom in 2017—just weeks before his patron, Prince Mohammed’s predecessor as crown prince, was replaced. Mr. Jabri is claiming...
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