TLTP
\nWASHINGTON
\nSaudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has been issued a summons by a US court for a lawsuit by a former top Saudi intelligence agent who was reportedly targeted in a foiled assassination attempt.
\nThe US District Court for the District of Columbia issued the summons, a day after Saad al-Jabri filed the lawsuit accusing Prince Mohammed of sending a hit squad to Canada to try and kill him.
\nA summons is an official notice of a lawsuit, given to the person or persons being sued.
\nAl-Jabri, who lives in Canada, reportedly under increased protection by police and private security guards, claimed that his close ties with the US intelligence community and deep knowledge of the prince\u2019s activities had rendered him one of the aspiring monarch\u2019s key targets.
\n\u201cFew places hold more sensitive, humiliating and damning information about Defendant bin-Salman than the mind and memory of Dr. Saad – except perhaps the recordings Dr. Saad made in anticipation of his killing,\u201d the lawsuit read.
\nSaudi Arabia, which has issued Interpol red notices seeking al-Jabri\u2019s return – which have since been dismissed by the agency as political – has urged other countries to send al-Jabri back to the kingdom, accusing the former senior intelligence officer of corruption.
\nThe summons, which named 12 people in addition to Prince Mohammed, added: \u201cIf you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint\u201d.
\nThe suit asserts that MBS had ordered the detention of two of al-Jabri\u2019s children, who have gone missing from their home in the capital Riyadh in mid-March, and that other relatives have also been arrested and tortured \u201call in an effort to bait Dr. Saad back to Saudi Arabia to be killed\u201d.
\nThe claims in the lawsuit are allegations which have not been proven.<\/p>\n
\u201cMBS will now vigorously lobby President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to issue what is called a letter of suggestion immunity,\u201d Bruce Fein, a former US associate deputy attorney general said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is rather an odd realm of law, but it asks the court to dismiss the case because it will interfere with the foreign relations of the US and relations with a head of state or high-level officials.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that means November [US elections] will be critical for Saudi Arabia. I can guarantee you right now that Saudi Arabia and the crown prince are talking with Pompeo and Trump asking them to get him out of this.\u201d TLTP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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