“The CIA tipped off twittrare in Norway on saudiskt hot”
“the Norwegian authorities have been made aware that there is a threat against the arab human rights activist Iyad el-Baghdadi who live in the country, reports The Guardian.”
“el-Baghdadi was informed of the threat on april 25, after a foreign intelligence agency: Norway if he is the subject of a potential threat from saudi Arabia. He was then sent to a secret location as a safety precaution.”
“the Newspaper writes that it has been able to confirm that the us intelligence agency the CIA is behind the tip.”
“– As I understood it, the saudis sights set on me, but it is unclear what they will do, ” says Iyad el-Baghdadi to the newspaper.”
“Palestinskfödde Iyad el-Baghdadi became a household name in the world when he began to translate tweets from Arabic to English during the arab spring of 2011.”
“He was thrown out of the United arab emirates in 2015, without any formal charges or trial against him, and then got asylum in Norway. Since then he has been an acrimonious critic of the saudi royal family, and among other things, worked together with the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was assassinated at the saudi consulate in Istanbul in the autumn.”
