Malcolm Nance: FAILED COUP PLOT IN SAUDI?:#Breaking: 10 Princes & Tens of former ministers arreste

[riversedge]

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FAILED COUP PLOT IN SAUDI?: Arab news reports (Xlation): “#Breaking: 10 Princes & Tens of former ministers arrested in Saudi Arabia.”

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[bagelsforbreakfast]

1. 10 Princes arrested? Just how many Princes are there? n/m

[Not Ruth]

2. Thousand

[riversedge]

3. A big folder full of Princes.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

4. I'm going to claim to be a Saudi Prince from now on. Who can say no? n/m

[marylandblue]

5. The King can say no

And it doesn't sound like a secure job rigjt now anyway.

[JCMach1]

27. I must have taught several dozen Al Saud princes

When I lived in the UAE...

Nothing like telling the Foreign Minister his son has been kicked out of school...!

[eppur_se_muova]

6. They've got binders full of princes. nt

[H2O Man]

9. !!!

Well done!

[Not Ruth]

22. Going to be a few openings

[hatrack]

10. They've got binders full of princes . . .

[oberliner]

17. There are 15,000 members of the royal family in Saudi Arabia

Polygamy helps keep the numbers up.

[lunasun]

7. By royal decree ... Rocket was from Yemen rebels group and unrelated to purge

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/saudi-ministers-national-guard-economy-dismissed-171104190619900.html

[monmouth4]

8. I wonder how many of them entertained orange boy when he was there..LOL n/t

[bagelsforbreakfast]

11. Were they the magic orb guys? n/m

[monmouth4]

19. See, give their wimmen driver's licenses and this is what you get..LOL..n/t

[Hortensis]

12. It's a stretch, but could anticorruption arrests in SA

possibly be linked to or precipitated in any way by corruption investigations here?

Out of control billionaires have become a planetwide problem.

This contains a western name that caught my eye. "big Rupert Murdoch backer"

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[coolsandy]

14. Does anyone remember ever hearing that the Saudi family owned part of FOX?

[Hortensis]

18. There's a Snopes piece mostly busting a story that

they owned a big part, but saying they did have some investment in the parent company.

This is from CNBC:

The billionaire is an American-educated philanthropist and investor who is heavily invested in U.S. corporate giants like Citigroup, Apple, 21st Century Fox and Twitter, just to name a few. Between 1991 and 1995, bin Talal came to the rescue of President Donald Trump, whose real estate empire was under strain. Bin Talal purchased a yacht, and invested in Trump's Plaza Hotel.

[Xolodno]

13. Add to it, the Lebanese PM resigned while in Saudi Arabia

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/04/middleeast/lebanese-prime-minister-saad-hariri-resigns/index.html

Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri unexpectedly resigned Saturday during a trip to Saudi Arabia, saying his life was in danger, and creating a leadership vacuum in an already politically fractured country.

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I think the Cold War between Saudi Arabia and Iran just got a bit warmer. What's worse, we got the Orange Dud in office.

[Takket]

15. honestly have no idea what any of this means. hope the MSM picks up on it and explains

[CanonRay]

16. Didn't the King just announced a return to "moderate" Islam?

Did the Wahhabists go nuts?

[applegrove]

28. That's a possibility.

[Hortensis]

20. Is it perhaps just the crown prince consolidating power before

his father steps down, as some are suggesting? He's head of a new "anti-corruption commission."

SBS.com:

Separately, the powerful heads of the Saudi National Guard, an elite internal security force, and the navy were replaced in a series of high-profile sackings that sent shock waves in the kingdom.

The developments follow a political crackdown in September as Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, set to be the first millennial to occupy the Saudi throne, cements his grip on power.

"Arrest of 10 princes and dozens of former ministers in Saudi Arabia," Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television reported, citing unnamed sources.

The news of the arrests came soon after the anti-corruption commission, headed by Prince Mohammed, was established by royal decree. ...

The 32-year-old crown prince, often known as MBS, has projected himself as a liberal reformer in the ultra-conservative kingdom with a series of bold moves including the decision allowing women to drive from next June.

Already viewed as the de facto ruler controlling all the major levers of government, from defence to the economy, the prince is widely seen to be stamping out traces of internal dissent before a formal transfer of power from his 81-year-old father King Salman.

In September the authorities arrested about two dozen people, including influential clerics, in what activists denounced as a coordinated crackdown.

Analysts said many of those detained were resistant to Prince Mohammed's aggressive foreign policy that includes the boycott of Gulf neighbour Qatar as well as some of his bold policy reforms, including privatising state assets and cutting subsidies.

[Ilsa]

21. Is it a coincidence that Yemen fired scud missiles (equivalent)

at Saudi Arabia?

Has anyone on these supposed news shows even mentioned that Iran-backed houthis fired missiles?

[Yavin4]

23. Hey, wasn't Jared just there?

Things that make you say, "hmmmmmm".

[Kaleva]

24. He was to bring peace to the Middle East.

[sarcasmo]

25. Jared's visit and this situation have to be related.

[coolsandy]

26. Somehow I just think this can't be good. This is going to lead to some bloodshed somewhere in the

royal kingdom. Look for some heheadings.