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Saudi crown prince a 'psychopath', says exiled intelligence officer
2021-10-26
More on this story from yesterday.
[THEGUARDIAN] A former senior Saudi intelligence officer has claimed that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince and modernizer of Saudi Arabia as of 2016. The Turks hate him, so he must be all right, despite the occasional brutal murder of Qatar-owned journalists. As crown prince, Moe has quietly jettisoned his country's policy of trying to impose its religion on the rest of the world...
is a "psychopath with no empathy" who once boasted that he could kill the kingdom’s ruler at the time, King Abdullah, and replace him with his own father.

In an interview on US television, Saad Aljabri, who fled Saudi Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Fifteen of the nineteen WTC hijackers were Saudis, and most major jihadi commanders were Saudis, to include Osama bin Laden. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman quietly folded that tent in 2016, doing terrible things to the guys running it, and has since been dragging the kingdom into the current century...
in May 2017 and is living in exile in Canada, also said he had been warned by an associate in 2018, after the murder of the journalist beloved martyr of journalism Jamal Khashoggi
......who was simultaneously a very well paid Washington Post columnist and a long time propagandist for the Moslem Brotherhood and Al Qaeda — he died while on the Qatari payroll, but previously wrote at the behest of then-Saudi intel chief Prince Turki al-Faisal......
in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, that a Saudi hit team was heading to Canada to kill him.

Aljabri told 60 Minutes on CBS he was warned "don’t be in a proximity of any Saudi mission in Canada. Don’t go to the consulate. Don’t go to the embassy." When he asked why, he said he was told "they dismembered the guy, they kill him. You are on the top of the list."

Some details of the alleged murder plot, which were detailed in litigation in the US and Canada, have already been reported. But the 60 Minutes interview represents the first time Aljabri has publicly spoken about his break with Prince Mohammed.

He also spoke of the plight of his two youngest children, Sarah and Omar, who were arrested and are in prison in Saudi Arabia in what is widely seen as an attempt to force their father back to the country.
An Nahar adds:
Saad al-Jabri did not provide evidence to the CBS News program, which aired Sunday.

The ex-intelligence official, who resides in exile in Canada, claimed that in 2014, Prince Mohammed bin Salman boasted that he could kill King Abdullah. At the time, Prince Mohammed held no senior role in government but was serving as gatekeeper to the royal court of his father, at the time still heir to the throne. King Salman ascended to the throne in January 2015 after his half-brother, King Abdullah, died of stated natural causes.

Al-Jabri used the interview to warn Prince Mohammed that he has recorded a video that reveals even more royal secrets and some of the United States. A short, silent clip was shown to "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley. The video, al-Jabri said, could be released if he's killed.

Al-Jabri's allegations are the latest attempt to pressure the 36-year-old crown prince. Two of al-Jabri's adult children are in detention in Saudi Arabia, allegedly as pawns to force their father to return to the country. If he returns, al-Jabri faces possible imprisonment or house arrest like his former boss, the once-powerful interior minister, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was ousted from the line of succession by the current crown prince in 2017.

The Saudi government has issued extradition requests and Interpol notices for al-Jabri, alleging he is wanted for corruption. Al-Jabri claims his wealth comes from the generosity of the kings he's served.

While it is not the first time al-Jabri has tried to exert pressure on the crown prince, it is his first on-record interview since his son Omar al-Jabri, 23, and daughter Sarah al-Jabri, 21, were detained in March 2020 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A son-in-law was allegedly kidnapped from a third country, forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia, tortured and detained.

Human Rights Watch says the arrest of family members is an apparent effort to coerce al-Jabri to return to Saudi Arabia. A Saudi court sentenced his son and daughter to nine and six-and-a-half years in prison, respectively, for money laundering and unlawfully attempting to flee Saudi Arabia, according to the rights group. An appeals court reportedly upheld the prison sentence in May, without informing the family.

Al-Jabri has filed a federal lawsuit in the United States against the Saudi crown prince, alleging the royal tried to trap and kill him in the U.S. and Canada.

Meanwhile, Saudi entities are suing him in the U.S. and Canada, claiming he stole some half-a-billion dollars from the counterterrorism budget. A Canadian judge has frozen his assets due to purported evidence of fraud as the case proceeds, according to the CBS News report.

Related: Saad bin Khalid Al Jabry‘s Wkipedia page. The man is no innocent.
But you've already guessed that.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Sounds like a hit piece. Perhaps we aren't pumping oil fast enough to lower gas prices, or just continuing soft coup policies from 8 months ago?
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-10-26 12:46  

#7  "his wealth comes from the generosity of the kings he's served"
OR
"claiming he stole some half-a-billion dollars" ... "judge has frozen his assets"

I believe we have arrived at the gist of the matter.
Posted by: ed in texas   2021-10-26 12:03  

#6  Like a pigeon in a Skinner Box, if they weren't born crazy...
Posted by: magpie   2021-10-26 10:49  

#5  So? Most despots and their ilk are.

Water still wet.
Posted by: DarthVader   2021-10-26 10:12  

#4  This is more on that story, Snowy Thing, yes.
Posted by: trailing wife   2021-10-26 09:33  

#3  1. Didn't this article get posted yesterday?

2. Y'know what's a good indicator of psychopathy? Animal abuse. Like debarked beagles being infected with maggots.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2021-10-26 09:32  

#2  Pretty much a job requirement for top of the food chain.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-10-26 06:31  

#1  A 'Royal' psychopath, how unique and extraordinary.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-10-26 01:16  

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