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FM123

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Thu Aug 6, 2020, 03:16 PM Aug 2020

Saudi Crown Prince accused of assassination plot against senior exiled official

Washington (CNN) A former top Saudi intelligence official who fell out with the Saudi Crown Prince is alleging that an assassination squad traveled from Saudi Arabia to Canada to try to kill him just days after journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by members of the same group, according to a new legal complaint filed Thursday by the alleged target, Dr. Saad Aljabri, in DC District Court.

Aljabri accuses the Kingdom's powerful crown prince and defacto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, of dispatching the hit team to murder him just over a year after Aljabri fled from Saudi Arabia and he refused repeated efforts by the Crown Prince to lure him back home or somewhere more accessible to the Saudis. Aljabri also names numerous alleged co-conspirators, including two of the men accused of being behind the Khashoggi operation.

MBS, according to previously unreported WhatsApp text messages referenced in the complaint, demanded that Aljabri immediately return to Saudi Arabia. As he repeatedly refused, Aljabri alleges the Crown Prince escalated his threats, saying they would use "all available means" and threatened to "take measures that would be harmful to you." The Crown Prince also barred Aljabri's children from leaving the country.

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The allegations of the assassination squad are "credible," says fervent MBS critic Rep. Tom Malinowski, a Democrat from New Jersey and member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. "When somebody who we already know is responsible for the kidnapping, rendition, murder and torture of other people in this category sends you a text message warning that bad things will happen to you, it's fair to assume that he means business," Malinowski said. (Read More)

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/06/politics/saudi-assassination-plot-allegations/index.html

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Saudi Crown Prince accused of assassination plot against senior exiled official (Original Post) FM123 Aug 2020 OP
Time for Trump to put his hands on the glowing orb again and do another sword dance? sop Aug 2020 #1
K&R UTUSN Aug 2020 #2
"Omar (now 22) and Sarah (20) were abducted from their home and haven't been heard from since" muriel_volestrangler Aug 2020 #3

muriel_volestrangler

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3. "Omar (now 22) and Sarah (20) were abducted from their home and haven't been heard from since"
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 05:33 PM
Aug 2020

Mohammed bone Saw would kill them if he felt it necessary. In a vicious way, one by one, if necessary.

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