MBS bragged that he could kill King Abdullah in a meeting with with Mohammed bin Nayef in 2014, according to exiled former Saudi Arabia official Saad Aljabri.
"And he told him, 'I want to assassinate King Abdullah. I get a poison ring from Russia. It's enough for me just to shake hand with him and he will be done,'" Aljabri said."That what he say. Whether he's just bragging or, but he said that and we took it seriously."
At the time, bin Nayef served as head of Saudi intelligence and bin Salman served as a guard to his father's royal court, without an official role in government. Aljabri said he watched a recording of the meeting and that copies of the video still exist today.Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends a signing ceremony following a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with Saudi Arabia's King Salman in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on October 14, 2019.
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