Al-Asaker (shown next to his boss) is also head of the private office for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the rank of minister since he was appointed by a royal decree in July 2017. http://www.arabnews.com/node/1310756/saudi-arabia
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10-22-18 Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, who allegedly headed the 15 Saudis who were inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul when Jamal Khashoggi was killed, called Badr Al-Asaker, the director of the private office of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, four times after the “fistfight” that resulted in the journalist’s death….
It was found that Mutreb also contacted a U.S. number thought to be the Saudi envoy in Washington, Khaled bin Salman. Khaled is the younger brother of Salman, who was appointed as Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. in 2017. He left Washington for Riyadh once the murder of Khashoggi was exposed. https://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/prince-salman-backed-into-a-tight-corner-as-links-to-khashoggi-murder-become-clearer-3464204
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10-24-18 in early January Khashoggi himself had reported in his Washington Post column the arrest of Saudi journalist Saleh al-Shehi, who in a December 2017 appearance on the Rotana channel had commented on the economic privileges enjoyed by those close to the Saudi royal court….
(In about the last year) there were at least 15 other journalists held in detention by the Saudi authorities, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). https://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/jamal-khashoggi-not-only-victim-conscience-middle-east-1407069495
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10-22-18 One of the first covert operations the tiger squad carried out within Saudi borders was the killing of Prince Mansour bin Moqren, deputy governor of Asir province and son of a former crown prince, in November last year.
Prince Mansour, a known opponent of MBS, died when his helicopter crashed near the Saudi border with Yemen. MEE reported at the time that the prince was trying to flee the country and died a few hours after a sweeping purge of the kingdom's upper ranks was launched on 4 November.
Another internal covert operation run by the tiger squad was the murder of the Mecca public court's president, judge and sheikh Suliman Abdul Rahman al Thuniyan, in a hospital in Riyadh on 1 October. "I believe he was killed by deadly viruses being injected into his body during a normal medical checkup. The squad knew he had an appointment in the hospital, and made it appear a natural death," the source said. "The judge [Thuniyan] had sent a letter to MBS opposing his 2030 economic vision.” He added that one of the techniques the tiger squad uses to silence dissidents or opponents of the government is to "kill them with HIV, or other sorts of deadly viruses”. https://www.middleeasteye.net/tiger-squad-saudi-hitmen-khashoggi-mbs
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10-10-18 The crown prince denied as “absolutely false” any suspicion that Saudi agents might have detained or killed Khashoggi and contended it was “outrageous” to think he might have been “murdered in the consulate, during business hours and with dozens of staff and visitors in the building.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-10/u-s-knew-of-saudi-plan-to-seize-missing-journalist-post-says
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