see url: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53677869
But they are our allies in the Middle East!!! Females can now drive
motor cars on their own...They are arriving at democracy...rather
slowly...We don't even need their oil any more...what about human
rights? Spying is a dirty business...
Just a few thoughts...;-)
ATB
Dougie.
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been accused of
sending a hit-squad to Canada in order to kill a former Saudi
intelligence official.
The failed plan to kill Saad al-Jabri was soon after the murder of
journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, court documents filed in the US
allege.
Mr Jabri, a veteran of the government of Saudi Arabia, fled into exile
three years ago.
He has been under private security protection in Toronto since.
The alleged plot failed after Canadian border agents became suspicious
of the hit-squad as they attempted to enter the country at Toronto's
Pearson International Airport, court documents say.
Family of exiled top Saudi officer Saad al-Jabri 'targeted'
Mr Jabri, 61, was for years the key go-between for Britain's MI6 and
other Western spy agencies in Saudi Arabia.
What does the complaint say?
The 106-page unproven complaint, which was filed in Washington DC,
accuses the crown prince of attempting to murder Mr Jabri in order to
silence him.
Mr Jabri says this is down to him possessing "damning information". The
document says this includes alleged corruption and overseeing a team of
personal mercenaries labelled the Tiger Squad.
Members of the Tiger Squad were involved in the murder of dissident
journalist Khashoggi, who was killed inside the Saudi consulate in
Istanbul in 2018, it says.
All you need to know about Jamal Khashoggi's death
"Few places hold more sensitive, humiliating and damning information
about defendant bin Salman than the mind and memory of Dr Saad - except
perhaps the recordings Dr Saad made in anticipation of his killing," the
document says.
"That is why defendant bin Salman wants him dead, and why defendant bin
Salman has worked to achieve that objective over the last three years."
After fleeing Saudi Arabia ahead of a purge by the all-powerful crown
prince in 2017, Mr Jabri fled to Canada via Turkey.
He alleges Mohammed bin Salman made repeated efforts to return him to
Saudi Arabia, even sending private messages, including one that read:
"We shall certainly reach you".
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