EXCLUSIVE: Stunning Allegations Against Mohammad Bin Salman

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Do you believe that the Saudi authorities somehow wanted to control your father, and if so, why?

KHALID ALJABRI, SON OF DR. SAAD ALJABRI: I think that’s a question for them to answer. What I’m, you know, here to talk about is basically the unlawful transnational and global terror campaign that my family has been suffering for more than three years right now. It’s a campaign that is seeking the murder of my father, and it’s actively taking my siblings Sarah and Omar as hostages over. Over the past three years, we’ve exhausted every possible avenue for quiet diplomacy and reconciliation to no avail. At the end, we were pushed into pursuing accountability and justice in a U.S. federal court. We hope that this current lawsuit will help end the torment free Omar and Sarah and reunite them with us, protect my dad and end this nightmare for my family.

AMANPOUR: OK. So, let’s go through these issues. You just raised two major elements of your suit that you filed in Washington, D.C. Your youngest siblings, Sarah and Omar, tell me what happened to them. You allege that dozens of Saudi officials essentially disappeared them, came and got them from where they were in Riyadh, and they haven’t been heard or seen since. What do you think happened?

ALJABRI: So, the story of Omar and Sarah starts actually way before that, it wasn’t just in March of 2020. Omar and Sarah, you know, young, bright kids. They were minors then in 2017, looking forward to their new life in Boston. Sarah was going to complete her high school and Omar was going to go to his freshman year. We’re ecstatic when they received their U.S. visas. They were in the airport heading to Boston on June 21st. That happened to be the same day that MBS became crown prince. They were stopped at the airport and banned from travel with no logical explanation or legal explanation, for that sake. During that time, it was shocking for every family member. I actually remember Sarah calling me and crying, not understanding why she can’t board a plane to see her family and start her school in the U.S. and then basically they’ve been hostage within the kingdom, they’ve been bargained with, they’ve been used as pawns, they’ve been used as collateral. In direct communication between the current crown prince and my dad, he made it clear that the kids will only be allowed to travel to study if my dad was, you know, returned to the kingdom. And, you know, we’ve stayed quiet. We had to adapt. It was extremely painful. You know, you’re a mother yourself, you can imagine a 17-year-old girl being away from her mom. That’s exactly when she needs to be in her mom’s arms the most. Omar, a bright guy, he loved the Celtics. He was looking forward to getting a season ticket and going to each game, in and out. And basically, you know, our lives were changed forever.