The Times: Saad Al-Jabri alleges that the Saudi authorities are trying to lure his daughter to the consulate in Istanbul

A former Saudi intelligence official, Saad al-Jabri, claimed that an attempt was made to lure his daughter to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul days before the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi there.

According to a report published by “The Times”, today, Tuesday, these allegations were made by Al-Jabri, who is living in self-imposed exile in Canada, within court notes, as part of a dispute in which he claimed that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, twice planned to kill him.

Al-Jabri claimed that in 2018 Saudi agents tried to lure his daughter, Hessa Al-Muzaini, to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, where she was living, in order to harm her.

The amended complaint states: “Fortunately for Hessa, she never went to the consulate .. Several days after Jamal Khashoggi entered the same consulate, she learned about the fate that was waiting for her if she went.

Last summer, the 61-year-old Al-Jabri, who fled to Canada in 2017, alleged in a lawsuit filed in the United States, that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent the “Nimr” assassination squad to Canada to kill him in 2018, days after Khashoggi was killed.

His lawsuit alleged that Canadian immigration officers thwarted the attack. Lawyers for Mohammed bin Salman, 35, denied the allegations, and said that the Saudi crown prince is immune from prosecution as head of state, and that the US court has nothing to do with the matter, seeking to dismiss the case.

Al-Jabri was the right arm of Muhammad bin Nayef, the crown prince who was replaced by Mohammed bin Salman in 2017, and was later arrested after being accused of treason. Al-Jabri was considered a key point of contact for cooperation in combating terrorism between the Kingdom and the West, which made it a target, along with the confidential information that he claims to possess about Mohammed bin Salman, according to “The Times”.

In an amended complaint to a court in Washington, DC, Al-Jabri claimed that Mohammed bin Salman held a meeting last May and directed his men to make a second attempt to kill him, but this time to travel to the United States and enter Canada by land.

The file does not state whether the second alleged mission took place, but al-Jabri claims that he has faced “repeated attempts to assassinate him” in recent months.

Source: The Times

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