Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

This photo, which appears to show Jeffrey Epstein and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was released by the US Justice Department as part of Epstein files.
Source: US Department of Justice.

Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud or MBS for short, is the likely heir to the throne in the Saudi ruling clan. As of 2018, he has effectively assumed the duties of Saudi Arabia Head of State in all but name from his ailing father, 85-year-old King Salman, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

His name essentially translates to Mohammed son of Salman son of Ibn Saud. Ibn Saud was the founder of the modern state of Saudi Arabia on the Arabian Penninsula in 1925, supplanting the Hashemite dynasty which had ruled Mecca since the 10th century. The new kingdom was given diplomatic recognition by the UK in 1926 and the US in 1933. Since Saud's passing in 1953, succession to the throne has passed sideways among six of his 45 sons (Ibn Saud became king of the Arabian Peninsula by gaining the allegiance of rival tribal chieftains who cemented the alliance by offering a daughter in marriage). It remains unclear what legal claim MBS has to the throne.

MBS is reputed to be a gamer.

Palace coup

MBS seized power in 2017 by deposing his cousin, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, alleging the heir apparent was a drug addict. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef became addicted to pain killers as the result of a shrapnel injury in an assassination attempt in 2011.

Relations with the Biden regime

At the outset of the US proxy war in Ukraine the governments of Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates refused to take phone calls from US socialist premier Joe Biden, while they continued speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Saudi government refused Biden demands to raise oil production, saying they had obligations with OPEC and Russia to not raise their oil production. Biden and Kamala Harris also were humiliated in Saudi Arabian media more than any other US president in history.

Biden’s visit to Saudi Arabia to beg for oil in July 2022, where he met with Prince Salman, whom US intelligence described as responsible for the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, reversed what was supposed to be a "more principled" US policy under Biden than under President Trump. During Biden's 2020 election campaign Biden promised not to meet with MBS and force the Saudis to “pay the price, and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.”

Jeddah 'peace' summit

Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh reported in the summer of 2023 that Biden junta national security advisor Jake "the Snake" Sullivan took an American delegation to the 'second international peace summit' in August at Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The summit was led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), who four years earlier was accused of ordering the assassination and dismemberment of journalist Jamal Khashoggi for the Washington Post at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, for perceived disloyalty to the state.

The summit stars included MBS, Sullivan, and Volodymyr Zelensky. Russia was not invited to the summit. It included a handful of heads of state from the fewer than fifty nations that sent delegates. Reuters reported that Zelensky’s goal was to get international support for “the principles” that he will consider as a basis for the settlement of the war, including “the withdrawal of all Russian troops and the return of all Ukrainian territory.” Russia’s formal response came from Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Ryabkov who called the summit “a reflection of the West’s attempt to continue futile, doomed efforts” to mobilize the Global South behind Zelensky. India and China both sent delegations to the session. An American intelligence official told Hersh,

“Jeddah was Sullivan’s baby. He planned it to be Biden’s equivalent of [President Woodrow] Wilson’s Versailles. The grand alliance of the free world meeting in a victory celebration after the humiliating defeat of the hated foe to determine the shape of nations for the next generation. Fame and Glory. Promotion and re-election. The jewel in the crown was to be Zelensky’s achievement of Putin’s unconditional surrender after the lightning spring offensive. They were even planning a Nuremberg type trial at the world court, with Jake as our representative. Just one more f***-up, but who is counting? Forty nations showed up, all but six looking for free food after the Odessa shutdown,”

referring to President Putin’s curtailment of Ukrainian wheat shipments in response to Zelensky’s renewed attacks on the Crimean bridge linking Crimea to the Russian mainland.

Relations with Jeffrey Epstein

The "Mosque" on Epstein island decorated with artifacts from the sacred Kaaba in Mecca. Occult ritual abuse is said to have taken place. The entrance has a locking bar from the outside to keep people inside.

Jeffrey Epstein obtained sacred artifacts and pieces of the Kiswa—the holy black-and-gold cloth covering the Kaaba in Mecca—to decorate a private island building that he and his associates referred to as a "mosque". The "Mosque" built on Epstein's private Caribbean island, Little Saint James, is a blue-and-white-striped structure topped with a golden dome. While initially planning a Turkish bathhouse or music room, Epstein regularly called the structure his "mosque" in private correspondence and discussions with hired artists.

The Mecca artifacts shipment in March 2017 arrived at Epstein's residence containing three pieces of the sacred Kiswa: one used inside the Kaaba, one from the outer covering, and one unused piece made from the same materials (labeled as "artworks" for customs). The transfer was coordinated through Middle Eastern contacts, including Emirati businesswoman Aziza Al-Ahmadi and Abdullah Al-Maari. Emails in the unsealed US Justice Department files highlighted the religious history of the fabric, noting that millions of worshippers had touched and prayed near the outer covering.