The internal tension has increased over the past month. Days after returning from Washington, Salman (at his son’s urging) fired Saad al-Jabri, a minister who was Mohammed bin Nayef’s top adviser. The United States and other Western nations were concerned because Jabri had been one of the kingdom’s main intelligence contacts with the West. Jabri is said to have questioned Mohammed bin Salman’s tactics in Yemen, fearing that al-Qaeda was growing stronger there.