Epstein Secrets

2529 June 16, 2012 -- Riyadh—The death of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz al Saud, announced by state media on Saturday, launched oil-rich Saudi Arabia into what analysts said may be one of the last readily forecast successions among the aging sons of the kingdom's founder. Prince Salman bin Abdula

Gregory Gause, a University of Vermont instructor and longtime Saudi scholar. "I do not think the death of Prince Nayef presents major issues," Mr. Gause said, in terms of the kingdom's typically cautious, security-centered policies. However, analysts also noted that, after King Abdullah bin Abdulazi

essful push for a U.N. General Assembly vote on Palestinian U.N. membership, and a freeze in financial aid from Gulf State donors, most notably Saudi Arabia -- for the better part of a year. Instead, the Qataris have not only bypassed the PA, but channeled money into a project that seems to prove the PA'

-interest than by an ideological affinity for political Islam. "Investments in the region are about the return on political influence," adds Gregory Gause, a professor at the University of Vermont and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution-Doha. He noted the presence of a large Americ

essful push for a U.N. General Assembly vote on Palestinian U.N. membership, and a freeze in financial aid from Gulf State donors, most notably Saudi Arabia -- for the better part of a year. Instead, the Qataris have not only bypassed the PA, but channeled money into a project that seems to prove the PA's

f-interest than by an ideological affinity for political Islam. "Investments in the region are about the return on political influence," adds Gregory Gause, a professor at the University of Vermont and a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution-Doha. He noted the presence of a large Americ