International Saudi Arabia kidnaps exiled Saudi security official's kids.

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Dr Saad Al Jabri was the righthand man of Prince Nayef, who was a Washington favorite and head of the Saudi State security apparatus and heir to the throne. Al Jabri was the crucial go-between for Saudi intelligence and Western intel agencies.

Al Jabri is credited with saving hundreds of lives when he gave crucial information to MI6 about an Al Qaeda bomb planted on an airline enroute to Chicago.

When Bin Salman rose to power, he imprisoned or killed many senior Saudi royals and businessmen. Prince Nayef - who was next in line to the throne - was arrested by Bin Salman. Al Jabri fled Saudi Arabia before Bin Salman could get to him. In retaliation Bin Salman has kidnapped 2 of Al Jabri's kids who live in Saudi Arabia, using them as bargaining chips to force their father to come back.

Western intelligence says Al Jabri changed Saudi intel from being a crude torture using operation to using forensics and data mining. Al Jabri is lauded as a smart guy surrounded by dysfunction.

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A senior Saudi security official who for years was the key go-between for Britain's MI6 and other Western spy agencies in Saudi Arabia is now being persecuted along with his family, according to former Western intelligence officials.


Dr Saad al-Jabri, who helped foil an al-Qaeda bomb plot against the West, fled into exile three years ago, ahead of a purge by the all-powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Now his children have been seized as "hostages", according to his eldest son, Khalid.

"Omar and Sarah were kidnapped at dawn on 16 March and taken out of their beds by about 50 state security officers who arrived in 20 cars," says their brother, Khalid al-Jabri

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For years he was the right-hand man, the gatekeeper, to Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who was widely credited with defeating the al-Qaeda insurgency in the 2000s. He was also the linchpin in all Saudi Arabia's relations with the "Five Eyes" (US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand) intelligence agencies.

In 2010 this crucial link "helped save hundreds of lives", according to a former Western intelligence officer who worked with him.

Al-Qaeda in Yemen had smuggled a powerful bomb on-board a cargo plane bound for Chicago, hidden inside a printer ink toner cartridge. But Saudi intelligence had a human informant inside al-Qaida who provided the tip-off to MI6, even relaying the serial number of the device it was hidden in.

British counter-terrorism police then located and defused the bomb inside the plane at East Midlands Airport. "If that had gone off as planned over Chicago hundreds would have been killed," said the former intelligence officer.

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"Dr al-Jabri transformed Saudi counter-terrorism efforts," says another former western intelligence official.

"He changed it from being a crude, violent, confession-based system into one that used modern forensics and computer-based data mining.

"He was the smartest guy we dealt with amongst so many others who were dysfunctional," he says.
 
I’m sure the president will admonish our ally for this unbecoming action.

Or offer to personally kill him to honor his masters.
 
InB4 Trump announces that a CIA investigation concluding it was Saudi Arabia is garbage and that a lot of people on Twitter are saying it was actually China.
 
Sounds like he committed treason and ran like a coward jeopardizing his kids lives in the process instead of facing punishment for his transgressions.
 
Nothing can be done at this moment. The political turn against the Saudis wont be till after Iran is handled. And right now the main focus is China.

Sounds like he committed treason and ran like a coward jeopardizing his kids lives in the process instead of facing punishment for his transgressions.

He is facing trumped up charges. And wont get a fair trial. But it could be argued he a traitor according to the current state.
 
God bless our best Allies the Glorious house of Saud ! , I will drink the blood of any man,woman or child that offends them ! .
 
Saudi Arabia is another country the west needs to blacklist. Absolute shit stain of a country.
 
what can u expect from a nation that uses beheading as punishment
luckily the world has the genius trump that hurt their income severely by just lowering the oil prices
 
Sounds like he committed treason and ran like a coward jeopardizing his kids lives in the process instead of facing punishment for his transgressions.
Sounds like someone didn't read the article.
 
Donald Trump to Saudi Arabia - You're not gonna raise that F***IN' price!
 
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