Sunday, January 25, 2015

Signs of fissures in the ranks of 2nd generation Saudi princes

 Embedded image permalink  This is from the Twitter account of Prince Al-Walid bin Talal: he says that he "took the oath of acclamation" (mubaya`ah) for "my father" Salman and "my father" Muqrin but then added "and I congratulated my brother Prince Muhammad bin Nayif".  He did not use the word for mubaya`ah.  Also, on the second page of Al-Hayat (today's issue), the mouthpiece of Prince Khalid bin Sultan, under the picture it says: "The servitor of the two holy sites, the crown prince and Muhammad bin Nayif".  It did not in the caption use his title.