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| Rumor mill sez King Fahd is gonna kick it... |
| 2002-08-11 |
| But suddenly the insistent rumors stressing that the king is dying picked up again: on August 3 he transferred the rights of his property to his second wife, Princess Johara Al-Ibrahim. There is wild speculation in Geneva that the king could be formally sidelined from the throne to the benefit of one of his staunch pro-American brothers. Meaning he'll step down in favor of someone other than Abdullah. The end comes to us all, eventually, and he's six years older than God, so it's about time... This is a very serious matter as far as the king's official heir - Prince Abdullah - is concerned. It is being constantly repeated in Washington that the US needs Prince Abdullah and vice versa. "Wishing will make it so-o-o-o-o!" But the fact is that Washington hawks do not evaluate the importance of Prince Abdullah as the crucial counter-power to Osama bin Laden's apocalyptic designs, and are suspicious of the prince's intentions of eventually convincing the Americans to abandon their Saudi military bases. The prince's efforts to get closer to Iran and Iraq and his landmark peace proposal for the Middle East - Israel retreats to its 1967 borders with Palestine in exchange of recognition by the Arab world - also do not fit the designs of Washington's hawks. That also has something to do with his failure to crack down on the funding that goes to Islamic subversion in general and his willingness to protect the al-Qaeda killers as poor, misunderstood boys who don't know no better... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |