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2002-07-23 Middle East

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2002-07-23 02:04 pm|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The traffic accident is the brother of the heart attack, and I'm glad to see I'm not the only person to wonder about assassination.

Posted by Jan Yarnot 2002-07-23 15:43:50|| 2002-07-23 15:43:50|| Front Page Top

#2 I think one has to watch out for the danger of reading too much into all this; there _is_ such a thing as ordinary coincidence, after all. There are literally _hundreds_ of those Saudi princes - old Ibn Saud was a busy fellow - and I'd never heard of this Sultan bin Faisal bin Turki bin Abdullah Al-Saud before. Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, on the other hand, I know of - he was the owner of War Emblem, the winner of this year's Kentucky Derby. The Washington Post printed the news of his death in the sports section.

Posted by Joe 2002-07-23 15:55:35|| 2002-07-23 15:55:35|| Front Page Top

#3 So, who got the line of succession? whos the best candidate to be the Saudi 'Duke of Gloucester'

Sure would solve alotta problems real fast woudnt it if old man ibn-saud was to 'fall down the stairs' in the middle of the night ( and where is the old geezer by the way?, and where Prince Bandar? - Colin Powells 'best friend' and current ambassador to the US- in 1992, you couldnt turn on a bright porch light without having him stand in front of it like it was a television camera, begging for our help)

Im not normally a conspiracy type, but two guys from the same wing of the same royal family within 48 hours of each other makes me want dig up my VHS of 'King Ralph".

Posted by frank martin 2002-07-23 17:17:05|| [varifrank.blogspot.com] 2002-07-23 17:17:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Suppose there's 3000 of them. Suppose further that your average Saudi prince lives to the age of 70.

So I figure you'd get around 3000 / (70*365) =~ 1/9 of a Saudi prince croaking every day.

If they're losing princes about every nine days or so, it's not a bit surprising if from time to time they lose quite a few within the space of just a few days.

Posted by Laertes 2002-07-23 20:04:42|| 2002-07-23 20:04:42|| Front Page Top

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