A former senior Saudi intelligence official has claimed that Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman sent a hit squad to
Canada in an attempt to kill him. In a 107-page complaint, filed in a
Washington DC court, Saad Aljabri claimed the assassins were intercepted by Canadian authorities. The incident was alleged to have happened less than two weeks after
Jamal Khashoggi, the
Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident, was killed in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul. Mr Aljabri, who was living in self-imposed exile in
Toronto, was said to have clashed with the crown prince over issues including the decision to go to war in
Yemen, and was dismissed from his cabinet role in 2015. He is suing the crown prince and 24 others for an unset amount of damages In his complaint Mr Aljabri claimed the crown prince "dispatched a hit squad" to Canada in October 2018. The complaint said: "(A) team of Saudi nationals travelled across the Atlantic Ocean from
Saudi Arabia ... with the intention of killing Dr Saad."