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RIYADH: Salman Al-Ansari, a renowned Saudi political analyst, said during an interview with news channel Al Arabiya that Turki Al-Jasser, who was arrested in 2018 and executed last Saturday, was not a journalist, as many posts on social media accounts claimed after his death was announced.
Al-Jasser was “literally a terrorist (and) a traitor, and he had nothing to do with journalism,” Al-Ansari said. Media reports describing him as a journalist were a “fabrication,” he added.
During the interview, Al-Ansari told Al Arabiya his sources had confirmed Al-Jasser worked for a “sensitive government agency” and had access to classified information. He added that Al-Jasser had been involved “in the planning and financing of terrorism.”