A former Saudi official close to the CIA alleges in a new lawsuit that Mohammed bin Salman tried to have him killed in Canada, in a plot that bears striking similarities to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is… by @hsu_spencer and me
Aljabri asserts the MBS pressured him to return to Saudi Arabia, sent agents to the US to locate Aljabri, had malware implanted on his phone, and when Aljabri was ultimately located in Canada, sent a “hit squad” to kill him, the lawsuit asserts.
The alleged Saudi hit team was stopped by Canadian customs officials, who, in a grisly echo of the Khashoggi case, were found carrying forensic tools that could have been used to dismember a corpse, Aljabri alleges.
You can read Saad Aljabri's lawsuit here. washingtonpost.com/context/lawsui…
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