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| Saudi crown prince dead |
| 2011-10-22 |
 Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has died, a State Department official said on Friday. Crown Prince Sultan, 81, was the deputy minister of aviation and defense, and was one of the key figures in Saudi Arabia. He has had various medical issues in recent years. In 2009, he was in New York for surgery for an undisclosed illness. At the time, there was speculation that the illness was serious. He has also flown to Morocco for additional medical treatments. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #6 he |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-22 11:57 |
| #5 Died at a NY hospital? The quality of health care in the U.S. is still the best in the world. Foreigners with money still come here for treatment. It is not 2014 and ObamaCare has not hit. Probably wouldn't make a difference in this case since he has more of our money via oil than Midas. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-10-22 11:56 |
| #4 More from FoxNews, a large chunk of whose stock is owned by one of the Saudi princelings. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-10-22 10:23 |
| #3 Their succession is always risky. Sultan made bold, by Saudi standards, efforts at reform, including creating a succession council about a decade ago, that may or may not figure into who is next in line. Allegedly, the most likely successor, Prince Nayef, is more closely aligned with the often treacherous Wahhabi religious leaders, but at the same time he has a major down on terrorism and the Shiites. So, more conservative, but less willing to abide radical nonsense. Abdullah, the king, remains, so can act as a veto if Nayef is too troublesome. The rest of the family has seen some liberalization, and may have liked what they saw, since Sultan was proposing a whole bunch more of it, even if gradual. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-10-22 08:58 |
| #2 Say Redneck Jim, do you know what the Saudi royal family and Freddy Mercury have in common? Answer: Gayest facial hair in human history. |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2011-10-22 00:36 |
| #1 And another one bites the dust(Bang Bang) Another one bites the dust (Bang Bang) And another one's gone, another one's gone, another one bites the dust.(Bang Bang) Oh gonna get you too, another one bites the dust. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-10-22 00:27 |