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Saudi strongman 'encouraged' Russia intervention in Syria, lawsuit claims
Former spy chief Saad Aljabri, who is in hiding in Canada, says Mohammed bin Salman flipped his country’s support for rebels on its head in 2015In the summer of 2015 Mohammed bin Salman, then Saudi defence minister and third in line to the throne, turned his country’s foreign policy on its head and gave a covert green light for Russia’s intervention in Syria, according to a lawsuit by a former top intelligence official.In his complaint filed in a federal court in Washington, Saad Aljabri alleges that the abrupt switch of course by the man who is now Saudi Arabia’s crown prince alarmed the then CIA director, John Brennan, who met Aljabri in July and August of 2015 to pass on a rebuke from the Obama administration. Continue reading...
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