{"id":244548,"date":"2021-10-25T11:36:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244548"},"modified":"2021-10-26T07:31:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T07:31:32","slug":"saudi-crown-prince-a-psychopath-says-exiled-intelligence-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=244548","title":{"rendered":"Saudi crown prince a \u2018psychopath\u2019, says exiled intelligence officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephanie Kirchgaessner \u2013 The Guardian.co.uk Oct 25, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A former senior Saudi intelligence officer has claimed that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman<\/a> is a \u201cpsychopath with no empathy\u201d who once boasted that he could kill the kingdom\u2019s ruler at the time, King Abdullah, and replace him with his own father.<\/p>\n

In an interview on US television, Saad Aljabri, who fled Saudi Arabia 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 Jamal Khashoggi<\/a> in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, that a Saudi hit team was heading to Canada to kill him<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Aljabri told 60 Minutes on CBS he was warned \u201cdon\u2019t be in a proximity of any Saudi mission in Canada<\/a>. Don\u2019t go to the consulate. Don\u2019t go to the embassy.\u201d When he asked why, he said he was told \u201cthey dismembered the guy, they kill him. You are on the top of the list.\u201d<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

He also spoke of the plight of his two youngest children, Sarah and Omar<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to speak out. I am appealing to the American people and to the American administration to help me to release those children and to restore their life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Saudi government did not address Aljabri\u2019s allegations but said in a statement that \u201cSaad Aljabri is a discredited former government official with a long history of fabricating and creating distractions to hide the financial crimes he committed\u201d.<\/p>\n

Aljabri was a close adviser to Mohammed bin Nayef, a former crown prince and interior minister who is being held in Saudi Arabia<\/a> and has been seen as a potential political rival to Prince Mohammed. \u201cI expect to be killed one day because this guy will not rest off until he see me dead,\u201d Aljabri said.<\/p>\n

Aljabri has strong support in the US, where former intelligence officials have credited their Saudi counterpart for helping to save American and Saudi lives following the 9\/11 terrorist attacks on the US.<\/p>\n

On 60 Minutes, the former acting CIA director Mike Morell said Aljabri was \u201chonourable\u201d. Intelligence relayed to the US by Aljabri \u2013 Morell said \u2013 had led to the interception of bombs that had been planted by al-Qaida in 2010 in two desktop printers that were being flown as cargo on two planes.<\/p>\n

Morell said there were also other examples of Aljabri saving the lives of Americans, but that they were still classified.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has previously denied there was an attempt on Aljabri\u2019s life in Canada. The kingdom has also denied that the murder of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was ordered by Prince Mohammed. But a declassified US intelligence assessment \u2013 released earlier this year<\/a> \u2013 concluded the murder was approved by the crown prince.<\/p>\n

According to Aljabri\u2019s account of alleged plans to assassinate him in Canada, a six-person team landed at Ottawa airport in mid-October 2018, lied to Canadian border officials about knowing one another, and carried suspicious equipment for DNA analysis. The team was deported by Canada after being intercepted by the authorities at the airport. The Canadian government has said: \u201cWe are aware of incidents in which foreign actors have attempted to threaten those living in Canada. It is completely unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

The serious allegations about Prince Mohammed come as Saudi Arabia is seeking to improve its image around the world, including through the recent takeover<\/a> of Newcastle United by the Public Investment Fund, the Saudi-controlled sovereign wealth fund where Prince Mohammed serves as chairman.<\/p>\n

In the interview, Aljabri portrayed Prince Mohammed as reckless and untrustworthy.<\/p>\n

He is, Aljabri said, \u201ca psychopath with no empathy, [who] doesn\u2019t feel emotion, never learned from his experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former intelligence chief also claimed Prince Mohammed \u201cfeared\u201d the information Aljabri knew about him, including a 2014 recorded discussion between Prince Mohammed and the then crown prince, Bin Nayef, in which Prince Mohammed allegedly said he could kill the sitting king, Abdullah, to clear the throne for his own father, Salman.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told him, \u2018I want to assassinate King Abdullah. I get a poison ring from Russia. It\u2019s enough for me just to shake hand with him and he will be done\u2019 \u2026 We took it seriously,\u201d Aljabri said.<\/p>\n

He added that he knew of two copies of the recording, and that he knew where they were located.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia has in turn accused Aljabri of embezzlement and claimed he stole hundreds of millions of dollars from the kingdom\u2019s coffers. The allegations were denied by Aljabri and downplayed by Morell.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know if Dr Saad was corrupt in any way. I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he wasn\u2019t because he\u2019s such an honorable man. But I also wouldn\u2019t be surprised if he was. Because everybody to some extent had their hand in the kitty. And King Abdullah allowed it, permitted it,\u201d Morell said.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The disclosure by a former Saudi intelligence officer simply confirms it. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has amassed such power precisely because he is a ruthless psychopath. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244549,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244548\/revisions\/244549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}