The death has been confirmed by the Saudi royal court.
The Duran and Al-Masdar News both report that the prince died when his security contingent got into a firefight with regime gunmen attempting to make an arrest.
Prince Aziz (44) who was the youngest son of King Fahad.
The Duran's Adam Garrie points out that Prince Abdul Aziz was deeply involved in Saudi Oger Ltd, a company which until it ceased operations in the summer of this year, was owned by the Hariri family. Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri was punitively in charge of the company until it ceased operations.
Prince Abdul Aziz's strange and sudden death which is said to have occurred during an attempted arrest, sheds light on the theory that the clearly forced resignation of former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri had more to do with internal Saudi affairs than the Saudi attempt to bring instability to Lebanon.
Comment: Garrie adds:
As I wrote yesterday,"This therefore, forces one to consider why the Saudi regime would involve itself in the Hariri affair on the same day as the 'great purge'?Furthermore, during his speech yesterday afternoon, Hezbollah leader Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah remarked that perhaps Hariri was involved with the business dealings or personal relations of some of the Saudi officials who had been victims of great purge.
The answer lies in exploring whether the Hariri 'purge' was more for domestic consumption than for international consumption. As a powerful Saudi citizen, one could think of Hariri's apparently forced resignation as the first Saudi purge of the day, on a day that saw many powerful Saudi citizens dethroned from powerful places in society.
The message to all powerful Saudis, including to Hariri, is that no one is too big to fall at the hands of MBS, even a Saudi citizen who is the Prime Minister in a foreign democracy. The fact that both Hariri and MBS are young men in a leadership role, would indicate that for the famously politically trigger happy MBS, it was also an ego boost".
The sudden death of Prince Abdul Aziz bin Fahd now appears to confirm this line of thinking. This also sheds light on yesterday's helicopter crash which killed another Saudi prince, Mansour bin Muqrin. When taken in totality, the 'crash' does not appear to be an accident.
The Saudi Royal family has now lost two princes in 24 hours.
As Al Jazeera notes, in this Saudi version of 'Game of Thrones', the 32-year-old Bin Salman shows that he is willing to throw the entire region into jeopardy to wear the royal gown.
His actions have already all but destroyed the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC); Yemen can no longer be referred to as a functioning state; Egypt is a ticking time bomb; and now Lebanon may erupt.
There's a lot to worry about.
Comment: Riyadh has also ordered the arrest of two "Syrian" "opposition" leaders: Ahmed al-Jarba and Riad Hijab. ("Moderate Syrian opposition" = "Takfiri proxy revolutionaries".) Back when Plan A for Syria was still an option, Saudi Arabia supported Jarba and Hijab in their effort to destabilize Syria and turn it into an Islamic State. Now, they're being sought for money laundering and smuggling. Duran's Adam Garrie sums up what's going on: Something big is brewing in Saudi Arabia. And the events of the past few days are only phase 1!