Thread by @arapaho415

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult Coincidentally, there's another reference to Syria🇸🇾 which this article links to. I'll post more in a bit, right now watching Jupiter-Saturn conjunction...
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@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult Saudi spymaster Saad Aljabri🇸🇦 <thread>:
1/ "The previously secret Interpol statements surfaced in a lawsuit filed Thursday [Aug 6, 2020] in a federal district court in Washington by Saad Aljabri, a former top Saudi intelligence official. (con't)
washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-s…

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 2/ ...Aljabri was the closest adviser to MBS’s chief rival, former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, known as MBN. After the Saudis’ extradition request to Interpol and other escalating pressure tactics had failed, the suit alleges, MBS sent a 'Tiger Squad' team to kill Aljabri...

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 3/ ...in Canada in Oct 2018."
"The lawsuit contains a revelatory allegation about why Aljabri was fired in Sep 2015 👉after a decade as one of the CIA’s most valued contacts on counterterrorism👈. That complaint alleges that Aljabri had met that July with John Brennan... (con't)

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 4/ ...then head of the CIA, to warn him that 👉MBS🇸🇦 'was encouraging Russian🇷🇺 intervention in Syria🇸🇾.' Two months later, Russia sent troops👈 and, according to the lawsuit, Aljabri was sacked in reprisal for talking to Brennan." (more...)

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 5/ Timeline
May 2017: Aljabri flees to Canada🇨🇦
Jun 2017: MBS texts Aljabri, urging him to return to KSA🇸🇦
Aljabri responses he'll return on Jun 24, but MBS "pressed him to come 'a few days earlier.'"
Jun 20: MBS organizes coup that deposes MBN, takes his place as crown prince...

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 6/ "Having failed in its efforts to compel Aljabri’s return, MBS allegedly dispatched the Tiger Squad to Toronto🇨🇦 around Oct 15, 2018. That was 👉less than two weeks after another Tiger Squad had allegedly murdered Khashoggi👈, another MBS critic who had refused pleas... (con't)

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 7/ ...and threats to return home."
Background:
Jul 17, 2020:
"Officials say billions in a Saudi counterterrorism fund under the control of spy chief Saad al Jabri have gone missing; Jabri’s supporters say the money was used to fight terrorists" (more...)

https://twitter.com/selectedwisdom/status/1284295634279895041

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 8/ "If Mr Jabri returned to Saudi Arabia🇸🇦, said former CIA Director Brennan, 'I am sure he would never be allowed to leave.'”
2020 timeline
Aug: Aljabri files lawsuit in DC⤴️against MBS/KSA🇸🇦
Oct: KSA US embassy requests sovereign immunity⤵️
Dec 21 2020:
washingtonpost.com/local/public-s…

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 9/ Nov: State Dept sends questionnaire to Aljabri's lawyers, "soliciting their legal views on whether it should grant the Saudi🇸🇦 request, according to a person close to the family who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the pending litigation... (con't)

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 10/ "A response from Aljabri’s lawyers is due 👉after the new year👈 and is expected to argue that the crown prince is not yet king and conspired in his personal capacity, so he should not be granted immunity, as asserted in his initial complaint. (con't)

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 11/ ...Aljabri’s lawsuit cites two US statutes, the Torture Victim Protection Act, which bans extrajudicial killing, and the Alien Tort Statute, which allows victims of such illegal operations to sue in US courts. He has previously denied Saudi🇸🇦 allegations of theft." (more...)

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 12/ "The US gov't is weighing a request to declare Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immune from a federal lawsuit accusing him of targeting for assassination a former top intelligence officer [Aljabri] who could disclose damaging secrets about the prince’s ascent to power...

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 13/ ...according to legal documents related to the case."
"A State Dept recommendation 👉could also lead to the dismissal of the prince as a defendant in other cases recently filed in the US, including ones accusing him of directing the death and dismemberment... (con't)

@clearing_fog @TeresaCCarter2 @escapedacult 14/ ...of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018; and of targeting a hack and leak operation to discredit an Al Jazeera news anchor Ghada Oueiss in retaliation for her critical reports on Mohammed🇸🇦 and the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates🇦🇪." /end