Saud al-Qahtani

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Saud bin Abdullah al-Qahtani (Arabic: سعود بن عبد الله القحطاني; born July 7, 1978) is a Saudi Arabian consultant and former royal court advisor. Prior to his dismissal in late 2018, he worked as an advisor to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia and crown prince Mohammed bin Salman. He oversaw the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, among other interrogations and torture. It was after Khashoggi's assassination that he was dismissed. In December, Turkish officials issued a warrant for his arrest for the murder of Khashoggi. On November 15, 2018, he was sanctioned as a Specially Designated National under GLOMAG by the US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control. As of March 2019 he is under house arrest. In April 2019, as a response to Khashoggi's murder, the United States Department of State sanctioned al-Qahtani and 15 others, banning them from entering the United States. Described as a "nationalist ideologue", al-Qahtani served as a major influence over Mohammed bin Salman's foreign and domestic...

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