MyStateline.com acknowledges the rumors, but denies their accuracy:
(Dubai) — A source is laying to rest a rumor that the king of Saudi Arabia is dead.
An adviser to a senior member of the ruling family says King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz is alive.
Abdullah has been on the mend in Morocco since January after he had surgery in the U.S. for a blood clot that complicated a slipped disc.
The only article I can find that says Abdullah is dead is from Islam Times . Notice the assertion that the king became upset after an argument with President Obama, and had a heart attack as a result (all spelling errors are in the original):
Saudia Arabia’s King Abdullah Passed Away
Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz passed away yesterday, according to an Islam Times reporter…
Islam Times: Saudi Arabia’s 86-year-old King Abdullah was discharged from a New York City hospital in good health after going through two back operations in December 2010. The king delegated the management of the affairs of the world’s largest oil supplier to his half-brother, Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz, during his absence.
King Abdullah talked with Obama about the situation in Egypt over the phone yesterday. Obama and the King got into a heated debate about their opinions of what Hosni Mubarak should do. After the phone call sources stated that King Abdullah was furious and then suffered a sudden heart attack.
Doctors ran to his resuce but were unable to save him. He was pronounced dead, but his death was not reported due to the sensative conditions that exist in the region. The Saudi Arabian government will reject this claim; but the ball is in their court to prove that he is alive.
Hat tip: heroyalwhyness.
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Perhaps he didn't want to go out in Hosni-style?
Insert Santayana quote here: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Many have drawn parallels between the recent uprisings in Egypt and the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979.
With this report of Saudi King Abdullah's sudden demise after a heated exchange with our commander in chief, recall the other, less reported and even less well known event of 1979 - as told by Yaroslav Trofimov, "The Siege of Mecca"
Quoting from the book:
"On November 20, 1979, worldwide attention was focused on Tehran, where the Iranian hostage crisis was entering its third week. The same morning, hundreds og gunmen stunned the world by seizing Islam's holiest shrine, the Grand Mosque in Mecca. These men came from more than a dozen countries, launching the first operation of global jihad in modern times. With nearly 100,000 worshippers trapped inside the holy compound, Mecca's bloody siege lasted two weeks, causing hundreds of deaths.
Despite US assistance, the Saudi royal famly proved haplessly incapable of dislodgin the occupier. In Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini blamed the Great Satan-- the US-- for defiling the shrine, prompting mobs to storm and torch American embassies in Pakistan and Libya. The desperate Saudis finally enlisted the help of French commandos, who prepared the final assault and supplied poison gas that knocked out the insurgents.
This immensely consequential story was barely covered in the press, as Saudi Arabia imposed an information blackout and kept foreign correspondents away."
Is it any surprise the Israeli source, Arutz Sheva is running the following story? :
Barack Hussein Obama may be the godfather of the Islamic revolution.
This is most definitely not good.
The Saudi princelings are far more degenerate than the elder generation. Look no further than one-time Director General of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, Turki al-Faisal:
Legal papers in the case obtained by The Observer make it clear that the allegations are serious and lengthy. Many centre around Turki's role as head of the Saudi intelligence agency. He held the post for 25 years before being replaced in 2001 just before the attacks on New York.
Turki admits to meeting bin Laden four or five times in the 1980s, when the Saudi-born terrorist was being supported by the West in Afghanistan. Turki also admits meeting Taliban leader Mullah Omar in 1998. He says he was seeking to extradite bin Laden at the request of the United States.
However, the legal papers tell a different story. Based on sworn testimony from a Taliban intelligence chief called Mullah Kakshar, they allege that Turki had two meetings in 1998 with al-Qaeda. They say that Turki helped seal a deal whereby al-Qaeda would not attack Saudi targets. In return, Saudi Arabia would make no demands for extradition or the closure of bin Laden's network of training camps. Turki also promised financial assistance to Mullah Omar. A few weeks after the meetings, 400 new pick-up vehicles arrived in Kandahar, the papers say.
Kakshar's statement also says that Turki arranged for donations to be made directly to al-Qaeda and bin Laden by a group of wealthy Saudi businessmen. 'Mullah Kakshar's sworn statement implicates Prince Turki as the facilitator of these money transfers in support of the Taliban, al-Qaeda and international terrorism,' the papers said.
Turki's link to one of al-Qaeda's top money- launderers, Mohammed Zouaydi, who lived in Saudi Arabia from 1996 to 2001, is also exposed. Zouaydi acted as the accountant for the Faisal branch of the Saudi royal family that includes Turki. Zouaydi, who is now in jail in Spain, is also accused of being al-Qaeda's top European financier. He distributed more than $1 million to al- Qaeda units, including the Hamburg cell of Mohammed Atta which plotted the World Trade Centre attack.
I'm not able to find an active link to articles regarding Turki's involvement with the disappearance of state-of-the-art blank E-series Saudi Arabian passports which continue to turn up in al Qaeda operatives and other terrorists' hands.
This is the sort of treacherous scum that will be squabbling for the throne.
Here's another taste of how the royals indulge their terrorist kin:
December 4, 1999: Princess Haifa bint Faisal, the wife of Prince Bandar, the Saudi Ambassador to the US, begins sending monthly cashier's checks of between $2,000 and $3,500 (accounts differ) to Majeda Dweikat, the wife of Osama Basnan, a Saudi living in San Diego (see April 1998). Accounts also differ over when the checks were first sent (between November 1999 and about March 2000, a Saudi government spokesman has stated December 4 [Fox News, 11/23/02]). Basnan's wife signs many of the checks over to her friend Manal Bajadr, the wife of Omar al-Bayoumi. [Washington Times, 11/26/02, Newsweek, 11/22/02, Newsweek, 11/24/02, Guardian, 11/25/02] Basnan's wife received some checks while she was living in Baltimore, Maryland and Falls Church, Virginia. [Washington Post, 11/24/02] Falls Church is located outside Washington and near CIA headquarters. It is also where the World Assembly of Muslim Youth [WAMY] - a suspected terrorist organization - is located. Abdullah bin Laden (Osama's brother) was the US director of WAMY; he and his brother Omar lived in Falls Church at the same time as four of the 9/11 hijackers (see 1996). It is believed that al-Bayoumi helped 9/11 hijackers Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid Almihdhar settle in San Diego (see November 1999 (B)), and it is later suggested that the money from the wife of the Saudi ambassador passes through these two as intermediaries and ultimately ends up in the hands of the two hijackers (see November 22, 2002). The payments from Princess Haifa continue until May 2002 and may total $51,000, or as much as $73,000. [MSNBC, 11/23/02, MSNBC, 11/27/02] While living in the San Diego area, al-Bayoumi and Basnan are heavily involved in relocating and offering financial support to Saudi immigrants in the community. [Los Angeles Times, 11/24/02] In late 2002, Al-Bayoumi tells an Arabic-language newspaper in London that he did not pass any money along to the hijackers. [Washington Times, 12/04/02] Basnan is also described as an al-Qaeda sympathizer who called 9/11 "a wonderful, glorious day." [Newsweek, 11/22/02] However, Basnan has variously claimed to know al-Bayoumi, not know him at all or to know him only vaguely, [Arab News, 11/26/02, ABC, 11/26/02, ABC, 11/25/02, MSNBC, 11/27/02] but earlier reports say Basnan and his wife were "very good friends" of al-Bayoumi and his wife. Both couples lived at the Parkwood Apartments at the same time as the two hijackers; prior to that, the couples lived together in a different apartment complex. Also, the two wives were arrested for shoplifting together at a J. C. Penney in April 2001. [San Diego Union-Tribune, 10/22/02]
Like I said, not good.
Perhaps it was an inside job? As we saw with the Pakistani governor who was murdered by his own security man with the full knowledge and blessing of the rest of his security detail, Muslim leaders must be very wary of their own security details....
If the King is dead anyone who takes over will have to be approved by the Moslem Brotherhood, this means another country has now joined the Caliphate and Israel is now facing another front in the coming war with the Moslem Brotherhood.
Richard: If the King is dead anyone who takes over will have to be approved by the Moslem Brotherhood, this means another country has now joined the Caliphate and Israel is now facing another front in the coming war with the Moslem Brotherhood.
Don't count on it. Despite the devil's deal that Saudi royals have with their Wahabbist clergy, the powers that be are very attached to their wealth and share none of the austere, puritanical sentiments of their clerics.
This does not even take into account the tremendous influence and wealth that being gatekeepers for the haj (pilgrimmage) confers upon the royal family.
As I noted above, the younger royals are probably even less inclined to live any sort of traditional Islamic lifestyle and, therefore, fundamentalist groups like the Ikhwan will not find much of a welcome waiting for them outside of an open door to the torture chamber.
He appears to be Schrodinger's King.
The king is really dead?
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