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| Another Soddy prince goes toes up... |
| 2002-07-30 |
| A Saudi prince and two other people have died in the searing heat while making desert car journeys, and Saudi police warned residents Tuesday to postpone trips while the summer heat wave persists. Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, 25, died Monday during a desert trip in the province of Remaah, 55 miles east of Riyadh, the Saudi capital. The Saudi Royal Court announced the death, saying the prince died of thirst. The prince was believed a distant relative of King Fahd. That's three down. 2,997 to go... The bodies of two other Saudis were found in the desert of al-Qoseem province, 200 miles east of Riyadh, according to a police statement carried Tuesday by the official Saudi news agency. "They were on a trip with three other friends when their car broke down," said the statement quoting Brig. Abdulkader Talha, deputy director of al-Qoseem police. "They left their friends behind to get aid, but their friends made it home safely while the two men lost their way in the desert and died." With 3000 Soddy princes, it's likely this is a true story. On the other hand, if they're killing each other off, it's also likely they'd put out stories like this to account for these fellows not showing up for important meetings because they'd been ventilated... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 I believe Livia would use poison as her weapon of choice, but I dont think she'd turn down the 'take the dog for a long walk' method youve prescribed. I gotta get to work on that org chart of Saudi princes and the line of succession thing again. This is getting too weird. Where did I put my copy of daughterys 'arabia deserta'? by the way, there is a big section in the middle of arabia called the 'rub al khali' which means "empty quarter ". You gotta think that this place must be particularly bleak if people who live in the middle of nothing in the first place take the time to denote something as " really, really empty". |
| Posted by: Frank Martin 2002-07-31 01:13:05 |
| #1 It would be very easy to kill someone in Saudi Arabia in the summer. Just kick him out of a car in the middle of nowhere, then make "it home safely" while the victim loses his way in the desert and dies. Just make sure the victim doesn't have his cell phone with him. Be sure to make it look like an accident. Study Livia, wife of Augustus Caesar, in "I, Claudius" for any number of ingenious ways to bump someone off. |
| Posted by: Tresho 2002-07-30 21:12:45 |