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The Muhammad bin Nayif Tape

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Unfortunately, I don’t have time to blog about this, because I would really like to. Instead, it will have to be a link dump. First there is the audio tape (or at least selections from the phone conversation between Muhammad bin Nayif and Abdullah ‘Asiri.)

Al-Sharq al-Awsat publishes the transcript of the tape along with a fascinating article, I was particularly intrigued by the news of al-Shihri’s wife.

Finally, Asiri’s father who still has another son on the run in Yemen condemns the attack.

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