MBS, as he is known, has worked ruthlessly to silence opponents and consolidate power
Breaking History is published by Broadside Books on August 23
Kushner also said he accepted the Saudi leader's claim that he was not personally involved. That puts him at odds with U.S. intelligence agencies, which concluded that MBS had directly approved an operation to kill or capture Khashoggi. Trump shrugged off the episode as an anomaly that should not get in the way of relations between Washington and Riyadh. And although President Joe Biden has talked of building a foreign policy based on values and of making Saudi Arabia a pariah for its actions, earlier this month he met with MBS as part of an effort to improve relations and bring down oil prices. Throughout Trump's time in office, Kushner's close relationship with MBS was a source of friction between officials. He was widely reported to use WhatsApp to communicate with the crown prince, keeping other staff and Cabinet secretaries in the dark. In 2017 he had an angry showdown with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson who accused him of undercutting his authority.
This handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace on November 20, 2019 shows Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz, on the right, arriving with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to address the Shura council in Riyadh
Prince Mohammed, son of King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, was born on August 31, 1985. He is one of the hundreds of grandchildren of the country's founder, King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, and grew up in a Riyadh palace with his mother, Fahda, one of his father's four wives, and his five brothers. 'As the sixth son of the 25th son of the founding king, there was little reason to expect that he would rise to prominence,' wrote Hubbard. 'And for most of his life, few people did.' He earned a law degree from Riyadh's King Saud University but never studied abroad, and soon worked as a special adviser to his father, the then-Riyadh governor.
Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has overseen the most fundamental transformation in the kindom's modern history
Prince Mohammed has pledged to forge a 'moderate' Saudi Arabia and courts international investors for his wide-ranging Vision 2030 plan to diversify the oil-reliant economy. 'We want to live a normal life,' he once told business leaders in Riyadh. 'All we are doing is going back to what we were -- a moderate Islam that is open to all religions and open to the world. 'Seventy percent of the Saudi population is under 30 and, honestly, we will not spend the next 30 years of our lives dealing with extremist ideas. We will destroy them today.' - 'Fire hose of ideas' - As he rose to prominence, he toured the United States and charmed leaders in the White House and on Wall Street, in Silicon Valley and Hollywood.
A handout picture provided by the Saudi Royal Palace shows Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receiving French President Emmanuel Macron in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on December 4, 2021
The prince initially faced renewed scrutiny of his human rights record from Biden, who released an intelligence report stating MBS had 'approved an operatio' to capture or kill Khashoggi. Biden did not, however, take action against the crown prince and this month the pair met on Saudi soil, despite an earlier pledge to make the country a 'pariah'. This shift is perhaps an acknowledgement that Prince Mohammed, still in his 30s, could rule Saudi Arabia for half a century or more.
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