This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe U.S. government is weighing a request to declare Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immune from a federal lawsuit a former top intelligence officer who could disclose damaging secrets about the prince’s to power, according to legal documents related to the case.The Saudi government has asked that the prince be shielded from liability in response to a complaint brought by Saad Aljabri, a former Saudi counterterrorism leader and longtime U.S. intelligence ally now living in in Canada.A State Department recommendation...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe U.S. government is weighing a request to declare Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immune from a federal lawsuit a former top intelligence officer who could disclose damaging secrets about the prince’s to power, according to legal documents related to the case.The Saudi government has asked that the prince be shielded from liability in response to a complaint brought by Saad Aljabri, a former Saudi counterterrorism leader and longtime U.S. intelligence ally now living in in Canada.A State Department recommendation...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe fiancee of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a human rights organization he founded shortly before his death have accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of ordering Khashoggi’s killing to “permanently silence” his advocacy for democratic reform in the Arab world.In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Hatice Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) alleged that Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and dismembered “pursuant to a directive of Defendant Mohammed bin Salman.”The crown prince and...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe fiancee of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and a human rights organization he founded shortly before his death have accused Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of ordering Khashoggi’s killing to “permanently silence” his advocacy for democratic reform in the Arab world.In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Hatice Cengiz and Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) alleged that Khashoggi was tortured, murdered and dismembered “pursuant to a directive of Defendant Mohammed bin Salman.”The crown prince and...WW…