A senior Saudi official is being targeted by his family

Western intelligence officials say a senior Saudi official and his family have been targeted in Saudi Arabia for years for exchanging messages between the British intelligence agency MI6 and other Western intelligence agencies.
Dr. Saad Jabri, who helped foil a major al-Qaeda bombing in the West, fled to Canada three years ago. This was before the country's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's operation against powerful figures in Saudi Arabia. Now Dr. Jabri's eldest son says that Dr. Jabri's children have been taken hostage by the Saudi authorities.
Khalid Jabri says 21-year-old and 20-year-old Sarah were abducted on March 16. He was picked up from his bed by 50 security personnel in 20 vehicles in the morning.
Their home in Riyadh was then searched, camera memory cards were removed, and the two siblings were held in a detention center.
Khalid Jabri says no charges have been filed against his brother and sister and no reason has been given for his arrest. Khalid spoke to the BBC in Canada, where he and his father are living in self-imposed exile. "We don't even know if he's alive or dead," he says.
Khalid Jabri believes his brother and sister have been arrested in order to force his father to return to Saudi Arabia, where he will be immediately arrested and sent to prison.
Khalid claims that "they can make any lie about him but he is innocent."
Saudi officials have not responded to the allegations made by Dr Jabri's family.
For many years, Saad Jabri was considered the closest ally of Prince Muhammad bin Naif. Muhammad bin Naif, a former Saudi intelligence chief, is believed to be responsible for defeating al Qaeda in the country. Saad al-Jabri was also at the center of Saudi Arabia's links to the Five Eyes (US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) intelligence agencies.
A former Western intelligence officer who worked with him said his role was crucial in saving hundreds of lives in 2010.
In Yemen, al-Qaeda hid a very powerful bomb inside a printer ink cartridge and delivered it to a cargo plane bound for Chicago, USA. But a Saudi intelligence spy was inside al-Qaeda who leaked the information, and Saudi officials passed the information to MI6, which even revealed which box contained the bomb.
British anti-terrorism police then defused the bomb at a British airport. Hundreds of people would have died if the bomb had exploded in Chicago.
Another Western intelligence official says Dr. al-Jabri changed Saudi counterterrorism efforts.
"They turned it from a criminal confession through violence to modern forensics and computer-assisted data mining."
"Many of those who worked with us were not well there, but Dr. Al-Jabri was one of the wisest people there," he says.
Silent Go Dr. Al-Jabri had a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and rose to the position of a cabinet minister. He held the rank of Major General in the Ministry of Interior.
But in 2015, everything changed. King Abdullah died and his brother Shah Salman took the throne. Shah Salman appointed his young inexperienced son, Prince Muhammad bin Salman, as Minister of Defense.
Muhammad bin Salman then asked Saudi forces to go to Yemen, a move opposed by Dr. al-Jabri. Today, five years later, Saudi Arabia is still trying to pull out of Yemen.
In 2017, with the support of his father, Muhammad bin Salman captured powerful figures in the country and replaced Crown Prince Muhammad bin Naif.
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Today Muhammad bin Naif is arrested, his assets are frozen and those who worked for him have been removed from office. Meanwhile, Dr. Al-Jabri fled to Canada. But former Western intelligence officials believe Muhammad bin Salman still sees them as a threat to his power.
One of the officials said: "They cannot tolerate a person who is free, radical and has the power to mobilize the masses against him."
His family says his efforts to meet with Saudi officials in a "neutral place" have failed and he has now decided to go public.
"There are indications that Dr Saad is being threatened in various ways and that (Canadian) authorities are taking him seriously," said his son Khalid.
"We were pushed into it," he says. We are patriots. We love our country We don't want to embarrass Saudi Arabia, but kidnapping Omar and Sarah like this is open bullying