Great @AP investigation: “Why would American Media, best-known for publishing salacious stories of sex and scandal, sink money into printing 200,000 copies of a magazine with a grinning Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman splashed across the cover?”
https://nytimes.com/aponline/2018/04/24/us/politics/ap-us-saudi-arabia-us-tabloid.html#click=https://t.co/HUsINmKtcN …
This @WSJ report on MbS puts on view the power the US has over its client states; and it’s instructive of the perils of concentrated power
https://www.wsj.com/articles/scandal-over-dead-journalist-jolts-heir-to-saudi-throne-1540076164 …pic.twitter.com/yy42qP9SUZ
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@davidahearst: “It is palpable nonsense to say there is only one saviour of the 30,000 strong House of Saud. ... To leave bin Salman in position ... is to imperil the kingdom and to let a monster live another day.”https://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/why-mohammed-bin-salman-now-circling-wagons-2013703846 …Show this thread -
“The CIA has concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last month, contradicting the Saudi government’s claims that he was not involved in the killing”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-concludes-saudi-crown-prince-ordered-jamal-khashoggis-assassination/2018/11/16/98c89fe6-e9b2-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html …
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