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| Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman |
The Washington Post reports:
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says he’s smashing downwards on corruption. But the sweeping arrests of cabinet ministers together with senior princes Sat nighttime looked to many astonished Arab observers like
a bold but risky consolidation of power.
MBS, equally the headstrong 32-year-old ruler is known, struck at approximately of the kingdom’s virtually prominent concern together with political names inwards a novel bid to gain political command together with crusade alter inwards the fossil oil kingdom. By the count of the Saudi-owned al-Arabiya tidings channel, the arrests included xi princes, iv ministers together with several dozen others
MBS is emboldened yesteryear rigid back upwards from President Trump together with his inner circle, who encounter him equally a kindred disrupter of the condition quo — at 1 time a wealthy tycoon together with a populist insurgent. It was likely no accident that concluding month, Jared Kushner, Trump’s senior adviser together with son-in-law, made a personal view to Riyadh. The 2 princes are said to bring stayed upwards until nearly 4 a.m. several nights, swapping stories together with planning strategy.From Newsweek last week:
Jared Kushner made a surreptitious view to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia concluding calendar week amongst other officials from President Donald Trump’s direction for talks on peace inwards the Middle East.
The president’s son-in-law together with senior adviser made what was his tertiary trip to the Gulf kingdom this yr alone, Politico reported, citing a White House official.
Kushner traveled commercially on Wed together with was inwards the province amongst Trump’s Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt together with deputy national safety adviser Dina Powell. It remains unclear whom they met amongst on their trip.-RW
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