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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sun Jan 26, 2020, 06:16 PM Jan 2020

Saudis Tried to Kidnap Me on U.S. Soil, Regime Critic Says

A suspected agent of the Saudi government attempted to kidnap a regime critic on American soil, according to the critic and multiple U.S. and foreign sources familiar with the episode. The young Saudi man says the FBI saved him from becoming the next Jamal Khashoggi.

Abdulrahman Almutairi is a 27-year-old comedian and former student at the University of San Diego with a big social-media presence. After Almutairi used social media to criticize the powerful Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman over the October 2018 murder and dismemberment of Washington Post contributor Khashoggi, an unidentified Saudi man accompanied Almutairi’s father on a flight to collect Almutairi against his will and bring him back to Saudi Arabia, according to The Daily Beast’s sources.

“The Saudi government realized I was a threat,” Almutairi told The Daily Beast, revealing for the first time an ordeal that might have culminated in a whole new crisis: the kidnapping and rendition of a Saudi dissenter on American soil. Only timely intervention from the FBI broke up the plot, two sources say.

“If I go back to Saudi Arabia,” Almutairi said, “I’ll be killed in the airport.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/regime-critic-says-saudis-tried-to-kidnap-him-on-us-soil

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Saudis Tried to Kidnap Me on U.S. Soil, Regime Critic Says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2020 OP
Remembering Rotana and Tala Farea, also October 2018 lostnfound Jan 2020 #1

lostnfound

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1. Remembering Rotana and Tala Farea, also October 2018
Sun Jan 26, 2020, 07:00 PM
Jan 2020

Bound together and drowned in a river, NY coroner ruled later that it was “suicide”.

They did not want to go back to Saudi Arabia

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