Saudi Arabia - Report: Power Struggle Getting Critical in Saudi Royal Family.

Saudi Arabia - Report: Power Struggle Getting Critical in Saudi Royal Family.(Fars).News reports from Saudi Arabia revealed that the country has been practically divided into two parts reigned by the sons of King Abdallah and the sons of former crown prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, who plan to rule the country after the king's death.Informed sources in the Saudi royal family said that Mutaib bin Abdullah, the son of the king, is now ruling important religious cities of Saudi Arabia like Medina, Mecca, Taif and Abha, and is preparing for the days after the death of his father. This is while Mohammed Ibn Nayef, the son of former Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, is controlling Riyadh and has an eye on the Eastern coasts and the oil-rich areas and wants to play a decisive role in the future of Saudi Arabia, said the sources, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the information.
According to the sources, while the Saudi rulers are trying to conceal the power struggle inside the royal family, the second generation of the Saudi monarchs has now started a tough power rivalry which can lead to the country's collapse in future. Also earlier other sources inside the Saudi ruling family had warned that the death of Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdulaziz, a hard-line conservative, in June ignited an internal war in the Al Saud dynasty. Political observers believe that if the Saudi King defense Prince Salman, the existing differences inside the royal family will further widen. Earlier, a London-based analyst had also warned that whenever a Saudi prince dies or nears death, internal power feuds start in Riyadh which sometimes push the Arab country into crisis. "Since long time ago, a great dispute has been underway for starting a hereditary monarchy to transfer power to the younger members of the al-Saud family," Jaffar Hessabi told FNA in 2011 after the death of Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz. The Saudi ruler has so far picked his crown prince from the al-Saud family, including his aged brothers and nephews and not from his sons or grandsons. Hessabi pointed to the unpopularity of the Saudi dynasty among the people both inside Saudi Arabia and in the region, and stressed that the ongoing conditions in Saudi Arabia indicate the start of an uprising against the country's rulers similar to the popular uprisings in the other Arab states. Saudi Arabia has also been the scene of anti-government protests over the past months with demonstrators demanding rights reform, freedom of expression and the release of political prisoners. Saudi activists say there are more than 30,000 political prisoners, mostly prisoners of conscience, in jails across the Kingdom. Some of the detainees are reported to be held without trial for more than 16 years and attempting to incite the public against the government and the allegiance to foreign entities are usually the ready-made charges against political dissidents. According to the Saudi-based Human Rights First Society (HRFS), the detainees were subject to both physical and mental torture.Hmmmmm........"Arab Spring" Anyone?Read the full story here.