The appointment comes ahead of a deadline for Washington to decide whether the prince qualifies for immunity from lawsuits filed in American courts. Read more at straitstimes.com.
could prove more significant abroad than inside the kingdom where he already wields enormous power.
His lawyers have argued in filings that he"sits at the apex of Saudi Arabia's government" and thus qualifies for legal immunity. Last year, Biden declassified an intelligence report that found Prince Mohammed had approved the operation against Khashoggi, an assertion Saudi authorities deny.He was also named in a lawsuit filed by Saad al-Jabri, a former top intelligence official who fell out of favour as Prince Mohammed manoeuvred to become first in line to the throne in 2017.
The immunity question appeared to come to a head over the summer, when a US judge gave Biden's administration until August 1 to say whether it believed Prince Mohammed qualified. "MBS was already completely in control, and there was no threat as such to him that could be countered by him becoming prime minister," Karim said.
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