Saudi Crown Prince’s Mass Purge Upends a Longstanding System (JMD quoted in NYT)
SaudiCrown Prince’s Mass Purge Upends a Longstanding System
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICKNOV. 5, 2017
LONDON — A midnight blitz of arrests ordered by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia over the weekend has ensnared dozens of its most influential figures, including 11 of his royal cousins, in what by Sunday appeared to be the most sweeping transformatio…