Saudi prince asks US court to dismiss ‘assassination’ lawsuit

Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has asked a US federal court to throw out a lawsuit which accused him of trying to have an ex-intelligence official assassinated. Prince Mohammed’s lawyer told the federal court in Washington that Saad Aljabri’s suit filed in August did not provide evidence of the “hit squad” that he alleged the prince sent to kill him. The filing Monday also said that, as designated heir to the Saudi…