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| 2002-08-14 |
| The health of Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd is deteriorating despite his recent recovery from eye surgery. The 79-year-old officially heads the world’s largest oil-exporting country, but his half-brother, Crown Prince Abdullah, has been de facto ruler since King Fahd suffered a stroke in 1995. Surgery to remove a cataract at a Geneva hospital last month heightened speculation about the frail health of the king, who is diabetic. Officials said he was in good health, but some sources have said the monarch’s state of health is not as stable as before. The London-based opposition Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia said he no longer recognised some of his children. So probably it's too late to can Prince Abdullah without using an auto accident... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 Fahd actually has a manageable set of kids by a mere three wives. Bro Saud had more than 100; but it's abd al-Aziz's kids who really count, since it's his sons presently in the line of succession. About 60 kids, including 40 sons, not all of them alive today. |
| Posted by: Dan Hartung 2002-08-14 21:53:52 |
| #3 To those that say the Saudis haven't contributed anything positive to Science, I reply that in King Fahd they've perfected a vegetable with high fat content. |
| Posted by: Laurence Simon 2002-08-14 13:13:10 |
| #2 Does his eye surgery mean that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2002-08-14 10:38:41 |
| #1 As if this joker recognized all his children when he was healthy -- how many wives did'ja say he had? Regards, |
| Posted by: Steve White 2002-08-14 10:20:31 |