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    'To Protect Myself And My Family': Saudi Critics Abroad Fear Long Reach Of The Crown

    The Saudi government continues to track down and threaten its critics as far as Canada and the United States, dissidents say.
    by Jackie Northam Oct 08, 2020 5 minutes
    Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends an Arab summit at al-Safa Royal Palace in Mecca on May 31, 2019.

    Saad Aljabri knows a lot of secrets. The former senior intelligence official in Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry was a valued partner of the U.S. government, a man who had access to troves of sensitive information about terrorism suspects, informants and the vast Saudi royal family.

    But Aljabri ran afoul of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and went into exile in 2017. The royal has been hunting for him ever since, he says.

    In August, Aljabri brought a U.S. federal lawsuit against the crown prince, alleging the king's powerful son tried to use Aljabri's children to lure him back to Saudi Arabia as well as "personally orchestrated" attempts to kill him in North America.

    The case follows a disturbing trend in several countries, Saudi Arabia watchers say, of how far the Saudi crown prince is willing to go to silence rivals or dissidents. Researchers say

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