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Kwa mujibu wa tovuti ya habari ya “Middle East Eye”, mara baada ya kukamatwa kwa Ahmed bin Abdulaziz (Prince Ahmed), kaka wa mfalme wa Saudia, mfalme Salman bin Abdulaziz, wanafamilia wengine 20 zaidi wa familia ya kifalme wametiwa nguvuni kwa tuhuma za kupanga kumpindua mwanamfalme mrithi Muhammed bin Salman.
Miongoni mwa waliotiwa nguvuni ni pamoja na mtoto wa mwanamfalme Ahmed, mwanamfalme Nayef bin Abdulaziz, mwanamfalme mrithi wa zamani Muhammed bin Nayef na ndugu yake wa kambo Nawaf.
Katika taarifa hiyo inasema wanafamilia hao wa familia ya kifalme wametiwa nguvuni kwa tuhuma za kupanga njama kwa kushirikiana na vikosi vya kigeni ikiwemo Marekani ili kumpindua mwanamfalme mrithi Muhammed.
Inasemekana kwamba amri hiyo ya kuwakamata wanafamilia hao ina saini ya mfalme Salmani.
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A purge of royal princes is under way in Saudi Arabia, after the arrest of the royal family’s highest ranking dissident Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the brother of King Salman, for allegedly plotting a coup against the king's son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Up to 20 princes have been arrested for allegedly being part of a coup to overthrow the crown prince, also known as MBS, Middle East Eye has been told.
Four names so far are known to MEE. They are Prince Ahmed; his son Prince Nayef bin Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, Head of Land Forces Intelligence and Security Authority; the former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef; and his half brother Nawaf.
Ahmed's son is the highest ranking member of the Saudi armed forces known to be arrested so far, MEE sources confirmed.
Moments after the arrests, MBS ordered the kingdom's princes to tweet their loyalty to him. Three of them have already done so.
According to a regional source cited by Reuters, MBS "accused them [the princes] of conducting contacts with foreign powers, including the Americans and others, to carry out a coup d'etat".
Reuters quoted sources as saying King Salman himself signed the arrest warrants. They claimed his mental state was good. The king is known to suffer from dementia.
There were concerns on Friday about the fate of Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, once seen as a leading contender for the throne, who was released from detention and torture in the Ritz Carlton in 2017 after paying more than $1bn in a settlement with authorities.
Miteb, 65, is the son of the late King Abdullah and former head of the elite National Guard.
Desperate act
The purge underway is the boldest and most desperate act yet of his nephew MBS in the crown prince's quest for absolute power.
It has bigger implications for the stability of the kingdom than both the purge of up to 500 members of Saudi Arabia's business elite in the Ritz Carlton on alleged corruption charges on 4 November 2017, and the state ordered murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul a year later.
Kwa mujibu wa tovuti ya habari ya “Middle East Eye”, mara baada ya kukamatwa kwa Ahmed bin Abdulaziz (Prince Ahmed), kaka wa mfalme wa Saudia, mfalme Salman bin Abdulaziz, wanafamilia wengine 20 zaidi wa familia ya kifalme wametiwa nguvuni kwa tuhuma za kupanga kumpindua mwanamfalme mrithi Muhammed bin Salman.
Miongoni mwa waliotiwa nguvuni ni pamoja na mtoto wa mwanamfalme Ahmed, mwanamfalme Nayef bin Abdulaziz, mwanamfalme mrithi wa zamani Muhammed bin Nayef na ndugu yake wa kambo Nawaf.
Katika taarifa hiyo inasema wanafamilia hao wa familia ya kifalme wametiwa nguvuni kwa tuhuma za kupanga njama kwa kushirikiana na vikosi vya kigeni ikiwemo Marekani ili kumpindua mwanamfalme mrithi Muhammed.
Inasemekana kwamba amri hiyo ya kuwakamata wanafamilia hao ina saini ya mfalme Salmani.
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A purge of royal princes is under way in Saudi Arabia, after the arrest of the royal family’s highest ranking dissident Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the brother of King Salman, for allegedly plotting a coup against the king's son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Up to 20 princes have been arrested for allegedly being part of a coup to overthrow the crown prince, also known as MBS, Middle East Eye has been told.
Four names so far are known to MEE. They are Prince Ahmed; his son Prince Nayef bin Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, Head of Land Forces Intelligence and Security Authority; the former Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef; and his half brother Nawaf.
Ahmed's son is the highest ranking member of the Saudi armed forces known to be arrested so far, MEE sources confirmed.
Moments after the arrests, MBS ordered the kingdom's princes to tweet their loyalty to him. Three of them have already done so.
According to a regional source cited by Reuters, MBS "accused them [the princes] of conducting contacts with foreign powers, including the Americans and others, to carry out a coup d'etat".
Reuters quoted sources as saying King Salman himself signed the arrest warrants. They claimed his mental state was good. The king is known to suffer from dementia.
There were concerns on Friday about the fate of Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, once seen as a leading contender for the throne, who was released from detention and torture in the Ritz Carlton in 2017 after paying more than $1bn in a settlement with authorities.
Miteb, 65, is the son of the late King Abdullah and former head of the elite National Guard.
Desperate act
The purge underway is the boldest and most desperate act yet of his nephew MBS in the crown prince's quest for absolute power.
It has bigger implications for the stability of the kingdom than both the purge of up to 500 members of Saudi Arabia's business elite in the Ritz Carlton on alleged corruption charges on 4 November 2017, and the state ordered murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul a year later.
