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Prince Mohammed bin Salman being groomed to jump succession line, claim Saudi throne
The Washington Times ^ | May 1, 2016 | Guy Taylor

Posted on 05/01/2016 6:52:14 PM PDT by jazusamo

Saudi Arabia’s power behind the throne just took a big step into the spotlight.

Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the ambitious, impatient 30-year-old grandson of King Salman, last week was the public face for the launch of “Saudi Vision 2030,” a long-term blueprint designed to steer the kingdom’s economy through a brave new world of falling oil prices and rising competition.

The plan marked just the latest move by the prince to put his stamp on the country’s economic, diplomatic and strategic agenda, emerging as the royal to watch as the Saudi ruling family tries to deal with a host of domestic and international challenges, including a newly empowered Iran and a newly skeptical Washington.

Regional analysts and American intelligence sources say the young heir has already wielded outsize influence over the kingdom’s secretive policy-making machine, from pushing through the House of Saud’s recent plan to begin privatizing state oil assets to spearheading the proxy war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen.

“Prince bin Salman is now the main driver of economic policy and foreign military policy in the kingdom,” said F. Gregory Gause, who heads the international affairs department at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service.

Eighty-year-old King Salman, who came to power in January 2015, “obviously trusts his young son to take up the reins on policy matters,” Mr. Gause said. “There is some disquiet in the family about this concentration of power in the hands of just one prince, and one that is young and has not had much experience. But there are no overt signs of efforts to block [him] from within the family.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: foreignaffairs; houseofsaud; princesalman; saudiarabia
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Now you’re talking!


21 posted on 05/01/2016 7:48:10 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: jazusamo

Saudi Arabia is one technological breakthrough away from becoming a penniless third-world failed state.


22 posted on 05/01/2016 7:53:52 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: MichaelCorleone

I agree.


23 posted on 05/01/2016 8:02:27 PM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: MichaelCorleone

He sounds like he is intelligent and is thinking ahead.


24 posted on 05/01/2016 8:12:24 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: JPJones
This is an archaic form of government controlled by a large family of despots who control all of the wealth and power over a large population...that is why they have used their influence to spawn a huge hatred of the west to shift internal anger against their rule to a hatred of the west....
br>It only worked for a while and now the mideast is a cauldron of hatred toward the west and between the various religions of the mideast which is out of control. Obama is totally incapable of understanding what to do about it because he is partially responsible along with Hillary Clinton with causing it...what a masterful piece of shit for one's legacy......
25 posted on 05/01/2016 8:17:07 PM PDT by Stayfree
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To: JPJones

Then glass their land.


26 posted on 05/01/2016 9:06:35 PM PDT by steel_resolve (And an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm)
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To: jazusamo

Could it have anything to do with the 911 report?


27 posted on 05/01/2016 9:48:02 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: gaijin

This is one king who can order heads to roll, and they will.


28 posted on 05/01/2016 9:52:38 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: jazusamo

What about allowing Christians to bring religious articles into the country without confiscation?


29 posted on 05/01/2016 9:54:35 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: jazusamo

I doubt hard line Muslims and Wahhabis will go for that...................................... They won’t go for anything that may cause them to lose out on the good thing that they got going for them. You might say they are like members of Congress who also have a good thing going for them, and they don’t want to give it up either.


30 posted on 05/01/2016 10:11:16 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (HILLARY 2016 - SERIOUSLY? What are they thinking?)
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To: jazusamo

Interesting Stan Deyo has been analyzing several candidates for the role of antichrist. Salman is one of his leading candidates.


31 posted on 05/01/2016 10:27:30 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: Bringbackthedraft; jazusamo

ahem...Wahabbis ARE Moslems....


32 posted on 05/02/2016 4:55:41 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: WENDLE
"...spearheading the proxy war against Iran-backed rebels in Yemen..."

Pretty sure that war has already ben lost.

Saudi Arabia lost a lot of their Western mercenaries in Yemen too. Not just Caucasian Blackwater types either.

Hundreds of Columbians were on their payroll in Yemen. They are no longer on their payroll.

Because they're dead.

The MSM considers that non-news.

33 posted on 05/02/2016 6:23:20 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Is that right? I had no idea that US mercenaries were fighting for the Saudis— And Columbian?? All dead. Actually these Shiites can fight. You saw it in Ramadi after the Iradis got slaughtered at the soccer staduim, the Iranians sent in its Generals to help guide the Sadr Machti army and Hezbollah and they whipped the Sunnis. They just didn’t have anything left after they got there.


34 posted on 05/02/2016 9:26:35 AM PDT by WENDLE (TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN SINCE GEORGE WASHINGTON!!)
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To: Cronos

Yes they are, and the most extreme.


35 posted on 05/02/2016 10:04:48 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Free Republic? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: WENDLE

Yes, Xe lost a lot of Americans in Yemen in a single day, and the Columbian death toll is rumored to be over 100.


36 posted on 05/02/2016 11:18:07 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I accept what you are saying but is this not contract fighting for Hamas , a terrorist organization? Can we do that if we want? There is no Yemeni government left — it was annihilated by the Houthi Iraniian led militants? How do American contractors go fight for the Saudi Hamas?


37 posted on 05/02/2016 11:40:54 AM PDT by WENDLE (TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN SINCE GEORGE WASHINGTON!!)
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To: WENDLE

My understanding is that they are/were all on the payroll of the Saudis, as the Saudis did not want to commit their own forces for risk of losing face; it’s is feared that an obvious loss of face for the Saudis would result in a destabilization of their regime.


38 posted on 05/02/2016 11:44:28 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I see . Well that make sense.


39 posted on 05/02/2016 12:11:28 PM PDT by WENDLE (TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN SINCE GEORGE WASHINGTON!!)
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To: T-Bone Texan

Also they did not want to lose their heads. The greatest day in history is when the House of Saud is over run and hung like disemboweled pigs. Those bastard attacked our country!!I love Shiites!!


40 posted on 05/02/2016 4:41:32 PM PDT by WENDLE (TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN SINCE GEORGE WASHINGTON!!)
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