Prince Saud Bin Nayef
Beirut lebanon crown prince nayef bin abdul aziz al saud the hard line saudi interior minister who was a late if zealous convert to the fight against al qaeda and who took a dim view of.
Prince saud bin nayef. The crackdown coincided with the arrest of prince ahmed bin abdulaziz al saud a brother of king salman and the monarch s nephew prince mohammed bin nayef who was previously crown prince. Prince ahmed bin abdul aziz the only full brother of the monarch king salman and mohammed bin nayef who was heir to the throne until being ousted by prince mohammed face treason charges after. Nayef was one of the so called sudairi seven a powerful group of seven princes born to ibn saud s favorite wife hassa bint ahmad al sudairi. Prince mohammed bin nayef a committed ally of the united states and one time successor to the saudi throne has reportedly been arrested in what analysts suspect is an attempt by crown prince.
Saud bin nayef born 1956 arabic. Nayef succeeded crown prince sultan bin abdulaziz al saud as heir to the throne in october 2011. The prince of the eastern province prince saud bin nayef bin abdulaziz met the chairman of the board of directors of the saudi professional league engineer abdulaziz bin hassan al afaliq who wa. Prior to his appointment to throne he served as the deputy governor and then the governor of riyadh between 1963 and 2011.
In 2011 he was appointed as defence minister and later named as crown prince following the death of his brother prince nayef. سعود بن نايف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود is the former head of the crown prince court and special advisor to the saudi crown prince. Muhammad bin nayef al saud profile of the crown prince. Prince nayef received education at princes school and from senior ulema muslim legal scholars.
Salman bin abdulaziz al saud is the king of saudi arabia and custodian of the two holy mosques. Nayef bin abdulaziz was born in ta if in 1934 to ibn saud king abdulaziz and hassa bint ahmed al sudairi making him one of the sudairi seven. Muhammad bin nayef bin abdulaziz al saud crown prince deputy prime minister of interior of saudi arabia chair of the new council for political and security affairs and now first in line for the throne. In 1975 he was made interior minister.