Former top Saudi intelligence official Saad Aljabri tells 60Minutes that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman keeps a team of mercenaries to kidnap - and even kill - political dissenters.
Formerly the number two official in Saudi intelligence, Aljabri was a top adviser to Mohammed bin Nayef, the nephew of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud. Bin Salman replaced bin Nayef as heir to the Saudi throne in a 2017 royal palace purge. At the time, Aljabri had already left Saudi Arabia, saying he no longer felt safe. After the coup, he fled to Canada, where he now lives in exile.
In a lawsuit Aljabri filed in U.S. federal court in Washington D.C. last year, Aljabri elaborated on the alleged plot against him by bin Salman's men. "It was why the official security ministries of the Saudi government itself surveilled and fastidiously documented Defendant bin Salman's Tiger Squad as early as 2016, fearful of the lawless activities of a dangerously empowered royal," Aljabri's complaint reads.
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