The city of the future, the capital of leadership, the new global tourist destination; all these loose titles are made by the Saudi media to cover up the main crime of Neom, which bin Salman began building near the Red Sea, and seeks to bring finish it by this year.
Bruce Riedel, a former analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency for the Middle East, spoke to the American SpyTalk website, which specializes in intelligence matters, in which he said that CIA experts are currently working on evaluating the options of the new president, Joe Biden, in dealing with Saudi Arabia. During the interview they discussed the future of the Saudi city of Neom.
The American website, which published these statements in a report by “Jonathan Broder”, the defense and foreign affairs correspondent, considered that dealing with the Crown Prince of the constitutes a main dilemma for Biden in formulating his administration’s relationship with Riyadh. The report concluded that the US will embrace any force that is able to achieve a successful coup against bin Salman.
The Biden administration’s conduct of this approach may seem ostensibly in support of a coup against a stable government, however the US intelligence says that the more accurate term in the event of a coup that topples bin Salman is a “liberation process” or “restoration of the homeland.”
As to Neom, the website expected that getting rid of bin Salman has become difficult, thanks to the city of Neom, which is actually a future city, but not in the popular technologies that it provides to people, but rather in its military and tracking techniques, which makes it a fortified castle, where bin Salman spends most of his time away from people.
Riedel, who now works as a Middle East expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington, says, “The opposition princes may want to assassinate Mohammed bin Salman, whether or not the US supports them. But such operation would be very difficult to implement., “The crown prince surrounds himself with his own private imperial guard,”.
He goes on to reveal the real purpose of building Neom, saying: “Bin Salman has not stopped spending most of his time in“ Neom ”, the futuristic and high-tech city he is building near Jeddah, which is almost empty of people. No one lives in it yet, so securing it is very easy.”.
Douglas London, a non-resident researcher at the Middle East Institute in Washington, points out that Mohammed bin Salman runs from “NEOM” an intelligence-gathering apparatus with arms penetrating everywhere in the country, and it constantly monitors and identifies imminent dangers, especially through social media, and he adds: “But bin Salman’s control of society via NEOM is not 100% guaranteed, so in order to develop a credible scheme more people should be involved and more contacts, and the more contacts there is, it makes things easier for detection by Saudi monitoring devices ».
London went on to say: “In order to be able to assasinate bin Salman in Neom, you need to secure in your hand wings within the state’s security services. Meaning, you will need to have people with you who are tasked with ignoring what is going on when the scheme begins, and doing everything in their power to provide the necessary cover for the process. If what we are about is an organized plan, you need to know how the army will deal with the matter and how the National Guard will deal with it. But Mohammed bin Salman in Neom has many people tasked with monitoring the people who are with them and those around them, and here the question arises: Are the spies of Mohammed bin Salman really loyal to him?
The only proof of the goal of building that fortified city is the statements of a former CIA employee who worked for many years in the Middle East, who stated to the American website, that Mohammed bin Salman is now controlling –through NEOM- all the security and intelligence services in the Kingdom. In addition, Mohamed bin Nayef and Mutab bin Abdullah are both still under house arrest and under close surveillance, making it impossible for them to organize a coup.
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