Riyadh [Saudi Arabia]: A committee led by the Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, has given their nod to the creation of three departments in the Kingdom’s intelligence service.
This comes in the wake of the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey on October 2 this year, according to Al Jazeera.
Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi regime, had gone to the Kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey to attend to some official work when he was killed on the premises in what Saudi Arabia has described as a “rogue operation” led by two officials – the Deputy Intelligence Chief Ahmad al-Assiri and the Royal Court Adviser Saud al-Qahtani – who have since been sacked.
On the other hand, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report inferred the Crown Prince, also known as MBS, to be behind the scribe’s death – the allegations of which have been repeatedly and strongly refuted by the Kingdom.
A restructuring of the main intelligence agency was ordered by King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud subsequently. He further appointed MBS to overlook the restructuring.
[source_without_link]ANI[/source_without_link]