Thursday, October 25, 2018

Will Saudi Arabia's King Replace Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman?

King Salman is pictured (right) shaking hands with the son of murdered Jamal Khashoggi in Riyadh. The Crown Prince (second right) is pictured shaking hands with another man

Daily Mail: Saudi King 'will have Crown Prince REPLACED to restore the credibility of the monarchy' after his disastrous handling of the Khashoggi murder

* Saudi Crown Prince is facing a battle to contain fallout over the Khashoggi killing
* Journalist went missing after entering Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2
* Donald Trump has said the kingdom's de facto ruler may be behind the death
* Colonel Brian Lees, Britain's former defence attaché to Saudi Arabia, has said Saudi King Salman may look to replace his son to restore credibility of monarchy

Saudi Arabia's King could have his Crown Prince son replaced to restore the credibility of the monarchy amid turmoil over the Jamal Khashoggi murder, Britain's former defence attaché to the kingdom has claimed.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has faced claims he may have been behind the death of the journalist who went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Saudi Arabia first denied any role in Khashoggi's disappearance before blaming his October 2 death on a botched attempt to return him to the kingdom.

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WNU Editor: What we have seen .... and will be seeing in the coming weeks .... is internal Royal Saudi family politics at play. And as to what will be the fallout, I suspect that we are going to be seeing some drastic changes, but Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will still remain as the Crown Prince (but with more supervision from the King's office).

5 comments:

Gadfly Speck said...

Anyone want to start a pool on how long MBS has?

Anonymous said...

I would gladly take the over.

He has survived the situation so far. The international fallout has largely reached as far as it is going to.

Aside from recordings coming out containing video and audio of MBS directly ordering the death of Khashoggi, MBS will stay on the Throne.

Things may change around him, but he will be there for quite a while.


The Saudi kingship has survived far more scandalous events

Anonymous said...

As one of his many wives had said:
SOME DAY MY PRINCE WILL COME

War News Updates Editor said...

Good one Anon about the wives. :)

jimbrown said...

Theee could be more internal strife. No telling MSB would or could do next.

The entire family lacks credibility.