The year 1999 witnessed the start of the impressive rise of the former Saudi intelligence officer, then the beginning of the great collapse in 2015, and between the two years Al-Aqdar wrote the most prominent stations of the man bin Salman looked into with suspicion after a meeting with the director of the CIA. , Before he later became one of his most prominent opponents and stalkers.
Saad al-Jabri is a name that has remained in the dark for nearly two decades, rising silently behind the scenes of Saudi intelligence, and holding its most important and sensitive security files, before the government crises and throne conflicts suddenly tossed it to the forefront of events and lights.
Al-Jabri held the position of Minister of State, was one of the senior officers in the Saudi Interior, and he is an expert in artificial intelligence, and he played key roles in the kingdom's battle against al-Qaeda and its security coordination with the United States.
But his mission in the Ministry of Interior ended as a victim of the conflict between two powerful princes over who will rule the kingdom. He was surprised in mid-2015 by the announcement of Saudi TV that he had been dismissed.
Since that date, the life of the ether intelligence officer and the faithful store of secrets has been turned upside down.
Flight escaping,
while the man was able, with his skill, to get out early from the two holy mosques before handcuffs wrapped around his wrists, he had to move between 4 countries, Turkey, Germany, the United States and finally Canada, to escape from the hand of bin Salman, who then began to ruthlessly sweep all of the opponents and opponents.
The artificial intelligence expert and security man familiar with the backstage of Saudi intelligence managed to capture the signs of the great shift in policies and trends after the rise of bin Salman, and he came out with the least losses, and if his most important weakness remained that he was unable to bring out his two sons, Sarah and Omar, they remained a bargaining chip and pressed him.
Al-Jabri escaped attempts to arrest and surrender, two of them in Canada, and one via Interpol, and the Middle East Eye website, quoting his sources, said that while he was inside the United States, he was also subjected to an attempted forced extradition to Saudi Arabia. It is clear that the most important arrest attempt that he survived was inside his country when he left it, before he fell in the grip of the security services, which until yesterday was the most prominent of its men and leaders.
The relationship with Muhammad bin Nayef It
is certain that the relationship of al-Jabri with the prince and former crown prince Muhammad bin Nayef represented the bridge through which the man climbed, and achieved his fame and influence in the Saudi intelligence services.
This relationship began in 1999 when Al-Jabri entered the scenes of security work in Saudi Arabia after his appointment to the Ministry of Interior, and he got acquainted with Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, who was an assistant to his father, the Minister of Interior at the time.
- After 4 years, and over two decades, al-Jabri became a principal advisor to Muhammad bin Nayef, and a link between the kingdom and Western intelligence services, and reports indicate his role in modernizing Saudi security services and methods of fighting terrorism.
- In July 2015, with the approval of the then Minister of Interior and Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef al-Jabri, meetings were held with Director of the American Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Brennan, without knowing Muhammad bin Salman, and in the same time another meeting was held with the Foreign Minister British Philip Hammond in London.
In the following month (August 2015), al-Jabri visited Washington to discuss Saudi Arabia-led military intervention in Yemen with US officials.
The trouble journey started
in September of the same year, and after his return from the United States, al-Jabri was surprised by the news that Saudi TV announced his dismissal by Bin Salman, and despite his dismissal he continued to advise Prince Muhammad bin Nayef personally until he left Saudi Arabia.
In June 2017, al-Jabri took refuge in Canada, after spending about two years in the United States where he stayed until the time of Muhammad bin Nayef's ouster.
About two months later, the Saudi authorities asked Interpol, through a red notice, to arrest Al-Jabri, but Interpol canceled the notice after he considered it politically motivated.
- Saudi Arabia asked Canada twice to hand him over to him in 2018 and 2019, but it refused the request in both cases.
- In March 2020, the Riyadh authorities arrested two of al-Jabri's children, Sarah and Omar, and prevented them from traveling, a decision that their elder brother Khaled al-Jabri interpreted as an attempt by Riyadh to use them as a bargaining chip to force their father to return.
In July 2020 - According to The Wall Street Journal - Saudi officials claimed that al-Jabri was wanted by the Saudi judiciary because he had wasted nearly $ 11 billion during his tenure at the Ministry of Interior.
Intimidation and intimidation
On July 24, 2020, The New York Times said that it had obtained documents proving that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman tried to bring Saad al-Jabri, advisor to former Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, through several means, including Interpol, sometimes by carrots and by intimidation at other times.
The newspaper added that one of the letters from the Crown Prince to Al-Jabri says that he was involved in several major and proven corruption cases.
She revealed that another message in which the Saudi Crown Prince Al-Jabri said, "There is no country in the world that will refuse to extradite you."
The "New York Times" said that Interpol removed Al-Jabri's name from the prosecution lists, considering his case to be political.
She explained that INTERPOL questioned Saudi Arabia’s commitment to legal procedures and human rights standards in investigating corruption cases.
The newspaper also referred to phone messages in which Al-Jabri demanded the Saudi crown prince to allow his two children banned from traveling in Saudi Arabia to leave the country, so Bin Salman's answer was that he wanted to solve the problem of his children, but he was dealing with a sensitive file, in reference to the file of Prince Muhammad bin Nayef, and that he would explain to him The matter when he meets.