The FBI Reportedly Stopped a Saudi Plot to Kidnap a Youtuber on U.S. Soil

A man thought to be acting on behalf of the Saudi government tried to kidnap a young social-media influencer on US soil, The Daily Beast reported Thursday, citing multiple sources familiar with the episode.

Abdulrahman Almutairi, 27, lives in California and has used social media to criticize the Saudi government and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist assassinated by Saudi agents in Turkey.

The Daily Beast cited unnamed sources as saying said that sometime shortly after Khashoggi’s October 2018 killing an “unidentified Saudi man accompanied Almutairi’s father on a flight to collect Almutairi against his will and bring him back to Saudi Arabia.”

Almutairi told the outlet that if he had been taken back to Saudi Arabia, he most likely would have been killed.

Khashoggi’s gruesome death and dismemberment sparked intense global backlash. He was murdered October 2, 2018, at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul after going there to obtain paperwork for his coming wedding. (Read more from “The FBI Reportedly Stopped a Saudi Plot to Kidnap a Youtuber on U.S. Soil” HERE)

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