Saudi Arabia's Bogus Claims and the Fate of Mohammad Bin Salman

Saudi Arabia’s Bogus Claims and the Fate of Mohammad Bin Salman

Posted: October 22nd, 2018

By Emile Nakhleh

Dr. Emile Nakhleh is a retired Senior Intelligence Service Officer, a founding director of the CIA's Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program and the Global and the National Security Policy Institute at the University of New Mexico. Since retiring from the government, Nakhleh has consulted on national security issues, particularly Islamic radicalization, terrorism, and the Arab states of the Middle East. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Turkey’s President says he will announce details of his government’s investigation into the disappearance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Tuesday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he will “go into detail” in a speech to Turkey’s ruling party, according to the AP.

Cipher Brief Expert and former member of CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service, Emile Nakhleh writes about the broader implications of Khashoggi’s death and the difficulties of dealing with ruling families in states that have ‘trampled on legal and human rights norms’.

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