Saudi Arabia’s gambling deputy crown prince

Mohammad bin Salman has made bold decisions on Yemen, Syria, and oil production. Why?

Saudi Deputy Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is 'a political gambler who is destabilizing the Arab world through proxy wars in Yemen and Syria,' according to a 2015 German intelligence brief. Narendra Modi Flickr photograph

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

February 15, 2017

LONDON, U.K.—By the end of 2015 the BND, the German foreign intelligence service, had grown so concerned that it warned the government about Saudi Arabia’s new deputy crown prince and defence minister, 30-year-old Mohammad bin Salman. “The previous cautious diplomatic stance of older leading m...

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