[ April 23, 2024 ]
The Saudi king’s only surviving brother was seen as one viable alternative to the crown prince. The detentions mark the latest crackdown by Prince Mohammed, who has consolidated his grip on power with the imprisonment of prominent clerics and activists as well as princes and business elites.
“Prince Mohammed is emboldened – he has already ousted any threats to his rise and jailed or murdered critics of his regime without any repercussion,” Becca Wasser, a policy analyst at the US-based RAND Corporation, said of the latest crackdown.
“This is a further step to shore up his power and a message to anyone – including royals – not to cross him.”
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. The media lauded Mohammed bin Salman as the great reformer.
Prince Mohammed bin Salman orders arrest of King’s brother and nephew
Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman arrests ‘treasonous’ rivals: Saudi Arabia king’s brother, an ex-crown prince and a cousin are held by masked black-clad guards for ‘coup plot’ as MBS tightens his grip on power
- Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al Saud and Prince Mohammed bin Nayef arrested
- Over plot to oust king and son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reports suggest
- Mohammed bin Nayef had been crown prince before his title was taken away
- King Salman put his son – Prince Mohammed bin Salman – first in line for throne
The brother and nephew of Saudi Arabia’s King Salman have been arrested over a plot to oust the king and his son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al-Saud, a brother of King Salman, and the monarch’s nephew Prince Mohammed bin Nayef were accused of treason.
They were taken from their homes early on Friday by black-clad royal guards, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The Saudi royal court has accused the two men, once potential contenders for the throne, of ‘plotting a coup to unseat the king and crown prince’ and could face lifetime imprisonment or execution, the newspaper said.
One of the king’s brothers, Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz al Saud, and one of his nephews, Prince Mohammed bin Nayef (pictured) have been arrested in their homes and charged with treason, The Wall Street Journal reports
Prince Nayef, a once powerful figure as head of Saudi counter terrorism efforts, had been crown prince until 2017.
King Salman took away the title and put his son – Prince Mohammed bin Salman – first in line for the throne.
The New York Times also reported his and Prince Ahmed’s detention, adding that Prince Nayef’s younger brother, Prince Nawaf bin Nayef, had also been detained.
The detentions mark the latest crackdown by Prince Mohammed, who has consolidated his grip on power with the imprisonment of prominent clerics and activists as well as princes and business elites.
Western media reports later said that the deposed prince had been placed under house arrest, a claim strongly denied by Saudi authorities.
The same year that Prince Nayef was stripped of his crown prince status, Prince Mohammed ordered a sweeping crackdown, arresting senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen. He claimed it was a bid to tackle corruption.
The group of the country’s most powerful figures were held in a function room at the Ritz Carlton hotel in their home country.
Pictures showed them sleeping on mattresses on the floor.
The group of the country’s most powerful figures were held in a function room at the Ritz Carlton hotel in their home country
Pictures showed them sleeping on mattresses on the floor. A source told MailOnline at the time that the men were being strung up by their feet and beaten by American private security contractors
A source told MailOnline at the time that the men were being strung up by their feet and beaten by American private security contractors.
Among those arrested on allegations of corruption was Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the Saudi King’s nephew who is worth more than $17bn according to Forbes, and owns stakes in Twitter, Lyft and Citigroup.
He was stripped of his position as National Guards chief.
The Saudi crown prince, according to the source, also confiscated more than $194 billion from the bank accounts and seized assets of those arrested.
The source said that Salman, often referred to by his initials MBS, was conducting some of the interrogations on the princes and billionaries himself.
‘When it’s something big he asks them questions,’ the source said.
‘He speaks to them very nicely in the interrogation, and then he leaves the room, and the mercenaries go in. The prisoners are slapped, insulted, hung up, tortured.’
Prince Mohammed did win plaudits from Western leaders after he introduced some moderate reforms – allowing women in Saudi Arabia to drive for the first time ever and introducing cinemas to the country.
The Crown Prince – also known simply as MBS – also reined in the country’s fierce and ultra conservative religious police.
Leaders including Theresa May and Donald Trump have rolled out the red carpet for him during his lavish visits.
The latest detentions come at a sensitive time as Saudi Arabia bars Muslim pilgrims from Islam’s holiest sites to contain the novel coronavirus.
The kingdom has suspended the ‘umrah’ year-round pilgrimage over fears of the disease spreading to Mecca and Medina, raising uncertainty over the upcoming hajj – a key pillar of Islam.
The oil-rich kingdom is also grappling with the plunging price of crude, its major source of revenue.
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26 Comments
4 years ago
Chop, chop.
4 years ago
No red carpets please.
4 years ago
this guy knows that the Saud has to get out of the 7th century – eventually the oil will run out
4 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around. Saudis paid these scumbags in America good money to support jihadis
CNN and MSM canonises this pro-jihadi/pro-illegal immigration RINO while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle
east http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/msm-canonises-jihadi-mccain/
Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens
Present Prince does not pay the Media so they criticised him when the al-qaeda supporting “journo” was killed in turkey.
Its all about money.
4 years ago
this guy knows that the Saud has to get out of the 7th century – eventually the oil will run out
4 years ago
‘Among those arrested on allegations of corruption was Prince Alwaleed
Bin Talal, the Saudi King’s nephew who is worth more than $17bn
according to Forbes, and owns stakes in Twitter, Lyft and Citigroup.’
I already know muslums own a substantial stake in AMD. The muslums have bought up the atheist West at bargain basement prices.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
one day we will learn that Pam Geller is funded by MBS
MBS is a zionist secretly 🙂
4 years ago
I can’t say I am a huge fan of any Muslims but he sees the handwriting on the wall. He must open up his country to other revenue sources other than oil. The oil glory days are over. No other President took the actions Trump has to stop us being enslaved to them for it.
At least he DOES something about a coup in his government. Look at the mess we have. Nothing seems to get done and those guilty never get punished. Tough words from A.G. Barr and then he fades away.
Rosenstein was obviously orchestrating allot of it since Sessions recused himself and he renewed FISA warrants based on a hoax and what has happened to him? Nothing!
Rod knew it was a hoax. And on and on it goes.
Any criticism by Trump on that and Barr responds like a prickly prima donna. Trump is HIS boss… it was a hint to do his dam job and Trump has the right to voice his opinions.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The budget of Saudi Arabia is at loss when the barrel value is under $80
Currently the crude oil is worth $41 a barrel
Saudi Arabia budget is crashing.
MBS was right to jail his opponents.
MBS is not an angel but the least danger for the west world
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The budget of Saudi Arabia is at loss when the barrel value is under $80
Currently the crude oil is worth $41 a barrel
Saudi Arabia budget is crashing.
MBS was right to jail his opponents.
MBS is not an angel but the least danger for the west world
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
AG Barr is pushing the new initiative to accelerate data collection on all of us. None of them want Americans, or anyone else, to have any privacy. The days of Americans standing up for basic rights has been over for awhile. I have learned to look harder when I see someone in government occasionally standing up for the right thing. A few of them have a good and steadfast character. Most do whatever seems convenient at the time.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Not to leave out CIA Islamist-Commie Brennan’s deserved full credit for thinking he should run America’s foreign affairs to control OUR economy subject to his allied subjugation of us all thru the auspices of the UN Protocols
LOL = Trump is really sticking in all their craw’s sideways to side pretty much with us “deplorable’s”.
– esp in light of the now clearly seen divisive Far-Left usurping parasites in the entire DC Deep-State and Swamp cabal inhabited by both non-Constitutional Parties.
WE must realize America is seriously under siege by this entire Globalist cabal at every level with “the sleeping giant”{WE – }barely now waking up after 107yrs of their incremental hold on every aspect of our lives from they think WE now have no escape.
This is why they’re now so emboldened to reveal their deep animosity of true Americanism as Founded and Framed in our 3 great documents delineating “freedoms under Liberty” which are totally antithetical to the required Globalist mindset to then usher in their borderless NWO.
Why WE just keep “clinging to our Bibles and guns” = the essence of truth for mankind on the Earth in Faith and defence of God given Natural Rights fully embraced and understood by our Founding Peoples from the Mayflower Compact on….
Til now when that generation intentionally jilted of history and truth are almost now ready to hand America’s future into that 1,000yrs of Darkness” Ronald Reagan warned would come IF allowed to by our neglect to inform each generation correctly as to the full meaning and Faith in what WE must understand to- “keep it” = almost ready to hand America to a fool like Bernie Sanders.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Only one problem here, isn’t Mohammed Bin Salman the man who ordered the execution, chopping up and disposal of that journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, in the Saudi embassy in Istanbul?
4 years ago
There has been a common practice by powerful wicked kings and rulers through out Human History. The practice has been for wicked kings and wicked rulers to eliminate by arrest and execution any person that might challenge their rule and authority. Basically they kill off the opposition. Examples of this can be found in the Bible.
4 years ago
It is about survival. MBS would not otherwise be arresting his Royal Enemies and confiscating their wealth. Thats how Arabic Royalty survives.
Apart from this Saudi Arabia is functioning Business as Usual.
Western Democracies don’t get it about what has to be done when “Sharia Law” is used to justify killing anyone by anyone. You can only survive by rounding up your enemies before they get you. Who ever survives is viewed as having survived due to Allahs’ will. The west refuses to acknowledge this simplicity to their own peril.
4 years ago
Reply to
1PierreMontagne1
Like in Euro-peons welcoming their tyrannical Islam future right on in instead of setting up huge “Safe Zones” in the Middle East by forcing those Muslim nations to partner in the endeavor.
Then deporting all that illegally got in prior = the so called “migrants”.
To then secure those Safe Zones that NATO + those nations would sponsor and protect = this is what the UN is for so they said and why they gotta go-!!!
As well then as helping Muslim’s there; not in Europes own neighborhoods where “Sharia and Islamism” is not needed nor wanted by “the people” already native with cultures of their own – being this is simple COMMON-SENSE.
But the Euro-peons allowed the Globalist EU to redirect their entire cultures to a destructive end by the lie that Muslim’s will integrate.
Purpose of course is to break the Judeo-Christisn West…
Of course “The Donald” has really disrupted it all esp in league with Farage and Brexit which Globalist SORO$ spent $500,000,000 million to stop lol didn’t work.
All while he and other usurper’s here like “little Mike” Doomburg spent that much on elections here and caravans from due South of the border to invade us.
Yup Trump is a major upset in the Globalist narrative and plans.
To which now other nations with “ears to hear” realize loving their own country first is their – “just responsibility”.
He has tamed Iran, China, Russia, Mexico, Global Warming Hoax, the UN(more to come) and our own out of control agency Deep-State parasites = quite the accomplishment of which Reagan would be very proud.
Tho WE are still far from out of the shadow of the Globalist control and they’re not about to concede defeat.
Gotta vote in majorities in both Houses as well as let our “President Honey Badger” loose for another 4yrs of tearing their entrenched networks here apart along with installing a total of over 300 lower federal judges and hopefully 2 or even 3 more in scotus.
This all will begin the treasonous Far-Left s decline.
HOWEVER our educational systems must be totally redone from the pre-Head Start Programs on up – thru Colleges + Universities.
This will reverse everything in time that took the Marxist Left over 100yrs to accomplish one slippery slope at a time mostly by Democ-rats but Republican’ts helped by going along to get along Rio’s – likely for monetary gain and not the Patriotic reasons they should be going there for.
WE need God-fearing+Loving Constitutional Patriots to run for office to accomplish good and then go back into American life.
A “3rd Great Awakening” is now desperately needed to set things a-right.
4 years ago
One thing to keep in mind above all else: Sixteen of the nineteen 9/11 hijackers were all Saudi. Who ordered that?
4 years ago
DO NOT INERFERE EVER AGAIN !!!
Let ALL goddamed islamic terrorists and murders kill each other until the penultimate man!
The last one will get either padded or “paradised” by jumping from the Jeddah Tower to reach islamic heavens faster than anyone else.
4 years ago
“Prince Mohammed did win plaudits from Western leaders after he
introduced some moderate reforms – allowing women in Saudi Arabia to
drive for the first time ever and introducing cinemas to the country.”
Aw gee and Hitler got the trains to run on time and started up Volkswagen.
4 years ago
Sounds like a muzz version of the Shakespeare play Richard III.
4 years ago
Cry for Saudi princes? I’ll do that the day I cry for Ernst Julius Günther Röhm, head of the SA.
Where were these Saudi princes when:
1. men and women were executed for the crimes of sorcery and witchcraft in Soddy Barbaria
2. a Saudi man cut his daughter’s tongue out and burned her alive for converting to Christianity
4 years ago
Just another typical royal family squabble……
