Saudi king reshuffles cabinet in wake of Khashoggi killing at Istanbul consulate

[UpInArms]

Source: AP via Marketwatch

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has issued a wide-ranging overhaul of top government posts, including naming a new foreign minister, following international fallout from the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi nearly three months ago.

Adel al-Jubeir, the soft-spoken foreign minister since 2015, was replaced by Ibrahim al-Assaf, who was formerly a finance minister. Al-Jubeir was appointed to the post of minister of state for foreign affairs.

Al-Assaf had been serving as minister of state, and has held a seat on the boards of oil-giant Saudi Aramaco and the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund.

The changes, which impact several key ministries, come as the king and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, were looking to announce a major reshuffle following Khashoggi’s killing by Saudi agents in Istanbul.

Read more: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/saudi-king-reshuffles-cabinet-in-wake-of-khashoggi-killing-at-istanbul-consulate-2018-12-27

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Shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic?

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Sounds like they're covering things up

[democratisphere]

2. Like drumpf, it is always someone else's fault.

[sdfernando]

3. Nothing will change until MBS is shuffled out.

..and even then, nothing my change.

[maxsolomon]

4. All that matters is the Crown Prince.

He's the one that ordered the murder, and this re-shuffle is just window dressing. The King knows he's got about, what, 300 other options for Crown Prince?

The obeisance that Seattle showed this murderer when he toured America last summer makes me

[BigmanPigman]

5. Big woop!

Meaningless BS that no one will fall for. Go to the source!

[GulfCoast66]

6. Like shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic!

Once Trump is out I hope they are totally cut off from military or intelligence support.

Even most right wingers hate them.

I see no evidence they provide stability or advance our national interests.

Trumps interests...of course.

I detest them and Iran about equally. But they make Iran look like choirboys.