Al-Jabri appeals to Biden administration for help freeing his children
SANAA, Oct. 25 (YPA) – A former senior Saudi intelligence official has accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of targeting him and has made an unprecedented public petition to the US administration to help free his sons imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.
Khaled Al-Jabri, the son of the former Saudi security advisor Saad Al-Jabri, said that his father decided to break his silence after his attempts over four years to release his two children Omar and Sarah from Saudi Arabia failed.
Al-Jabri wrote, through his Twitter account, that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman “took Sarah and Omar hostage to blackmail my father on the first day of his assumption of the mandate of the covenant,” adding: “After 4 years of trying all ways to secure their freedom, my father breaks his silence on Sunday.” Next up is 60 Minutes.
He attached to his tweet a promotional video clip from the “60 Minutes” program broadcast by the American CBS news channel, about a meeting scheduled to be broadcast next Sunday with Saad Al-Jabri.
Saad al-Jabri had accused the Saudi crown prince, in a court case in Washington, DC, of sending a “assassination squad” from Saudi Arabia to Canada “in an attempt to kill him” days after the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi “by members of the same group.”
Lawyers for the Saudi crown prince rejected al-Jabri’s allegations, and Mohammed bin Salman’s lawyer Michael Kellogg described the allegations last year as “mired in drama.”
In January, a group of Saudi state-owned companies alleged in a lawsuit in Canada that Al-Jabri embezzled billions of dollars in state funds while working at the Interior Ministry.
Al-Jabri denied that he had stolen any money but seemed worried about his life. “I expect to be killed one day because this young man will not rest until he sees me dead,” he said, referring to Mohammed bin Salman.
The Saudi embassy in Washington kept airing the interview with Al-Jabri by sending a statement to the “60 Minutes” program, in which it described Al-Jabri as “discredited and has a long history of fabrication and distracting attempts to hide the financial crimes he committed.”
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