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Trump administration weighs immunity for Saudi crown prince

Saad al-Jabri alleged that Mohammed bin Salman has led an attempt to lure him back to the kingdom and kill him.
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The Trump administration is reportedly weighing the possibility of granting Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman immunity in federal litigation brought by a dissident Saudi official who alleges the kingdom’s de facto ruler dispatched a team of men to Canada to assassinate him.

Saad bin Khalid al-Jabri, a former senior aide to former Saudi Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef, accused the crown prince in August of attempting to kill him. Jabri fled the kingdom in 2017, shortly before Mohammed bin Salman replaced Mohammed bin Nayef as crown prince.

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