{"id":3476,"date":"2021-10-25T09:47:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T09:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2021-10-25T09:47:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T09:47:30","slug":"former-saudi-spymaster-files-plea-with-us-biden-administration-against-prince-salman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/former-saudi-spymaster-files-plea-with-us-biden-administration-against-prince-salman\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Saudi spymaster files plea with US Biden administration against Prince Salman"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON: Former Saudi intelligence official Saad Al-Jabri has filed a plea with the US Biden administration against Saudi Crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman, spymaster claimed that Prince Salman targeting him while his family jailed in Saudi Arabia.
\nSaad al-Jabri was a long-time aide to another Saudi royal, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, whom bin Salman, or MbS, ousted as heir to the throne in a 2017 palace coup. MbS is now de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, the world\u2019s top oil exporter and a key U.S. ally.
\nIn August 2019, Jabri, who currently lives in Canada, filed a 107-page lawsuit in a U.S. court alleging the crown prince “dispatched a “hit squad” to kill him in October 2018, but Canadian authorities foiled the attempt.
\nLast year, a Saudi court jailed two of Saad al-Jabri\u2019s adult children for money laundering and conspiracy to escape the kingdom unlawfully, charges they deny.
\nIn his first interview since leaving the kingdom, Jabri said MbS has “no empathy,” adding that the 36-year old leader is a threat to the people of Saudi Arabia, Americans and the rest of the world.
\n“I have to speak out. I am appealing to the American people and to the American administration to help me to release those children and to restore their life,” a visibly emotional Jabri told CBS television\u2019s “60 Minutes” show.
\nThe Saudi embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
\nThe crown prince\u2019s lawyers have rejected Jabri\u2019s allegations and said MbS has legal immunity in the United States as a foreign head of state.
\nLast year, MbS\u2019s lawyer Michael Kellogg dismissed the claims, describing them as “steeped in drama.”
\nJabri\u2019s allegations come more than three years after Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi-born U.S. resident who wrote opinion columns for the Washington Post critical of MbS, was killed and dismembered by a team of operatives linked to the prince in the kingdom\u2019s consulate in Istanbul.
\nThe Saudi government has denied any involvement by the crown prince, but a U.S. intelligence report concluded in February that he had approved of an operation to capture or kill Khashoggi, although the Biden administration did not directly penalise MbS.
\nU.S. President Joe Biden has taken a tougher stand with Riyadh on its human rights record and the Yemen war than his predecessor Donald Trump, who had strong ties with MbS.
\nJabri spent many years as bin Nayef\u2019s closest aide at the Ministry of Interior, including helping to overhaul the kingdom\u2019s intelligence and counterterrorism operations.
\nIn January, a group of Saudi state-owned firms alleged in a lawsuit in Canada that Jabri embezzled billions of dollars of state funds while working at the Ministry of Interior.
\nJabri denied that he stole any money but he sounded alarm for his life. “I expect to be killed one day because this guy will not rest off until he sees me dead,” referring to MbS.
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WASHINGTON: Former Saudi intelligence official Saad Al-Jabri has filed a plea with the US Biden administration against Saudi Crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman, spymaster claimed that Prince Salman targeting him while his family jailed in Saudi Arabia. Saad al-Jabri was a long-time aide to another Saudi royal, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, whom bin Salman, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[2016,427,2015,636,2017,2014],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-mbs","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-saudi-crown-prince-mohammad-bin-salman","tag-united-states","tag-us-biden-administration","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}