According to Yahoo News his grave journalist, Michael Isikoff, journalist Jamal Khashoggi tried to offer his help to the families of the victims of the 9/11 terror to sue the Saudi government before he himself was liquidated.
Khashoggi is said to have done so by contacting former FBI agent Catherine Hunt who assisted the victims.
Turkish and US intelligence have concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave the green light to a Saudi death squad to lure Jamal into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018 and liquidate him. Saudi Arabia has denied that bin Salman gave such an order, but has admitted that the killing took place.
The US government tried to prevent lawsuits
Earlier Investigation reports have shown links between the 2001 terrorist attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and Saudi citizens. The reports revealed Saudi Arabia as the main source of financial support, but have failed to demonstrate direct links with Saudi government officials.
Saudi Arabia is one of the United States’ most important allies in the Middle East and the world. The US government has long tried to prevent the lawsuits against Saudi Arabia from getting through.
When Barack Obama was president, he vetoed a law called JASTA – which made exceptions to states such as Saudi Arabia’s immunity from certain types of lawsuits, for reasons of national security and relations with Saudi Arabia. However, Obama’s veto was overturned in Congress, and so could the lawsuits move on i 2018.
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Picture from a demonstration against President Barack Obama, September 20, 2016, when Obama vetoed a law that opens up lawsuits against Saudi Arabia. Foto: Gary Cameron / Reuters / NTB
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The family’s witness list includes an official from the Saudi embassy, an intelligence agent and an imam from Saudi Arabia. All of them were long suspected by the FBI of having a connection to the hijackers.
Many documents in connection with the case are conditional, as they may contain state secrets, most recently by former Minister of Justice William Barr.
“Lawyers, the FBI, intelligence services know the details of my father’s death, and the deaths of thousands of other families, but those most affected are not allowed to know,” said Brett Eagleson, who lost his father when the Twin Towers collapsed. , to AP.
Lawyer James Kreindler says that the information they have had access to so far is just “the tip of the iceberg” and is trying to lift the clauses.
Lawsuit from expelled Saudi intelligence officer
Another lawsuit has been filed against Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman by former Saudi intelligence officer Saad Aljabr, who believes his own country tried to assassinate him. Aljabr says his children have been taken hostage in Saudi Arabia to force him home. He currently lives in exile in Canada.
Aljabr’s immediate superior was none other than former Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef, a possible challenger to the Saudi throne. Bin Nayef has been described as a “favorite” by US intelligence, since he is said to have given the United States information such as saved several American lives during the US fight against Al-Qaeda.
In March 2020, however, he was arrested by order of bin Salman, and charged with treason. Bin Salman believes bin Nayef collaborated with other countries, including the United States, to carry out a coup, according to Reuters.
Therefore, the US government is considering putting a lid on this lawsuit as well.
“The US government is considering whether and how to participate in the case, which may involve invoking appropriate state privileges,” it said in a letter sent to the court, according to AFP.
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