A handout picture released by the Saudi Royal Palace shows Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (R) chatting with deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the creation of the King Faisal Air Academy at King Salman airbase in Riyadh on January 25, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
Reuters: As Khashoggi crisis grows, Saudi king asserts authority, checks son's power: sources
DUBAI (Reuters) - So grave is the fallout from the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi that King Salman has felt compelled to intervene, five sources with links to the Saudi royal family said.
Last Thursday, Oct. 11, the king dispatched his most trusted aide, Prince Khaled al-Faisal, governor of Mecca, to Istanbul to try to defuse the crisis.
World leaders were demanding an explanation and concern was growing in parts of the royal court that the king’s son Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, to whom he has delegated vast powers, was struggling to contain the fallout, the sources said.
During Prince Khaled’s visit, Turkey and Saudi Arabia agreed to form a joint working group to investigate Khashoggi’s disappearance. The king subsequently ordered the Saudi public prosecutor to open an inquiry based on its findings.
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WNU Editor: Whatever hope there was of Saudi Arabia modernizing and de-radicalizing is going to be set back now.
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Oh simple minded Fred. You truly are the parrot of this blog. Just 2 weeks and you shall see
MbS is probably going to get done to him what he did to other members of the Royal Family early this year. A suite at the Ritz Carleton.
I'm no fan of the Saudi's but as far as the US dealings with them it has been excellent over the last 2 years. No need to thrash it due to a guy with such a rotten past as Khashogii. In any event, their country, their rules. No American was involved.
"no American was involved " LOL
Can you spell blackwaters
"Former U.S. Middle East peace envoy Dennis Ross, who told Asharq Alawsat newspaper that the Muslim Brotherhood is a global, not a local organization, governed by a Shura (Consultative) Council, which rejects cessation of violence in Israel, and supports violence to achieve its political objectives elsewhere too"
Fred claims he loves Israel.
TRUE > The Washington post supported Kashoggi.
TRUE > Kashoggi was a member or supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.
TRUE > The Muslims Brotherhood wants to get rid of Israel.
Ergo Fred wants to get rid of Israel.
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