Saudi Game of Thrones

So how to get rid of him? In the past, the family’s rule has survived the abrupt removal of kings: one king was forced to abdicate in 1964, another was assassinated by his own nephew in 1975.

Though Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman doesn't have the public to fear, many prominent Saudis also have personal reasons to hate him, writes columnist Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of the U.S. State Department

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 11, 2018

LONDON, U.K.—Now is the moment of maximum danger for Saudi Arabia’s de facto ruler, Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. He has weathered the immediate storm over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi two months ago. He even went to ...

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