CNN, Nic Robertson:

The impact of Jamal Khashoggi's disappearance at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two weeks ago could last for generations.

 

We might be witnessing not only the apparent silencing of a critic, but a spasm in Saudi Arabia's long-running struggle for power between the kingdom's sprawling royal lines.

Since Ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia, first swept his family to power in the 1920s, taking the holy cities Mecca and Medina and the cosmopolitan port of Jeddah, power has passed from one son to the next -- in order of age and ability.

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