Back in July Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the long time ambassador to the US, was made head of Saudi intelligence services.
Prince Bandar is an extremely intelligent and well-connected player on the world stage. He was so close to the Bush family they used to call him Bandar Bush. He was long a proponent of getting Saudi Arabia a more outward looking orientation. To that end he favored improved relations with countries as diverse as Russia, China, and Israel.
A few days after his appointment there was a story floating around that he had been injured or killed in an assassination attempt. There were various theories to the effect that Syria was behind it, but the House of Saud denied the story and lacking independent confirmation the original news site that broke the story backed away from it.
Two months later, the story is all but forgotten, but Prince Bandar has not been seen in public since.
Coincidence?
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