How MBS Destroyed the Former King’s Sons | The Purge of King Abdullah's Dynasty

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Barely a decade ago, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz was the absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia, commanding the Arab world’s largest economy and building an impregnable, parallel military machine to protect his sons' claim to the throne. Yet today, that gilded empire has been completely dismantled.
The climax of this ruthless dynastic purge arrived on the night of November 4th, 2017, inside the luxurious Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh. While hundreds of princes and billionaires were corralled into a five-star detention center, Mohammed bin Salman’s primary strategic target was one man: Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, the formidable chief of the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG).
Commanding over 100,000 battle-ready troops, armored divisions, and squadrons of Apache attack helicopters, Prince Miteb was the final armed barricade standing against MBS’s absolute personal rule. Yet, lured into a hotel suite under the guise of an urgent council, the kingdom's top general was disarmed, stripped of his communications, and forced to pay an astonishing $1 billion settlement to buy his freedom—all without a single shot fired.
From the dark, fatal interrogations of General Ali al-Qahtani to the complete absorption of the National Guard into MBS's defense apparatus, this documentary uncovers the declassified story of the silent coup that crushed King Abdullah’s heirs and created the one-man Saudi monarchy.