Posted on 01/02/2015 10:34:23 AM PST by Olog-hai
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah is being treated for pneumonia and his condition has stabilized with the help of a breathing tube, according to a Royal Court statement issued Friday.
The statement, which was released by Saudi state media, said the monarch, 90, had been transferred Thursday to a military hospital after experiencing shortness of breath and back pain. The Saudi Royal Court said medical tests showed the king had a respiratory infection. […]
The health of the monarch is of extreme importance in the kingdom, where Abdullah holds absolute powers to enact laws and appoint ministers. His condition is also watched internationally largely due to the country’s role as one of the world’s largest oil exporters, as well as regionally where the kingdom has used its influence to counter the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood group and Shiite Iran. …
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My dad, a small town country doc, used to say “Pneumonia is an old man’s best friend”
Watch the crown princes fight each other!
Many have been beheaded in the Kingdom for simply criticizing this evil creature. Close friend of the Bush’s I hear.. Can I get an Amen?
Just to be clear... If we stopped supporting the evil Saudi Empire it is likely that ME terrorism would wane. We have been bombing the wrong country since DAY ONE.
Things will get interesting when this guy croaks.
We’ve been bombing the wrong country, but the right country is Iran, where the state is supporting the terrorism rather than individual clans. Watch what happens when (not if) Iran gets nukes.
http://www.businessinsider.com/simon-henderson-succession-could-place-saudi-arabia-in-crisis-2014-12
Theoretically, his successor would be his half brother Crown Prince Salman, who is seventy-eight. Despite the appearance of robustness given by a heavy public schedule of meetings, Salman’s brain is evidently ravaged by dementia. Visitors report that after a few minutes of conversation, he becomes incoherent. The fact that Salman appears in public at all is attributed to his determination to become king — or, more likely, the ambition of his closest relatives that he should do so.
Such are the rivalries in the House of Saud that King Abdullah has been unable to displace Salman, although last March he appointed another half brother, Muqrin — the youngest surviving son of Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Abdulaziz, also known as Ibn Saud — to the new position of deputy crown prince.
Controversially, this meant passing over the claims of other half brothers and maneuvering in the Allegiance Council to secure an advance baya, or oath of allegiance, to try to cement Muqrin’s new status. Significantly, Muqrin’s confirmation was officially reported as not unanimous.
Most of the moslem terrorism comes from the Saudis and their wahabbist buddies. 911, the moslem brotherhood, the Somalis, ISIS, the Taliban, the Chechyns, the Pakis, Boston, Al Qeida. All the mosques stinking up American towns. All of the fighting in Syria is because the Saudis decided an Alawite needed to go and funded the opposition.
This all comes from Saudi money. They are a much worse enemy than Iran. And furthermore, as individuals, Iranians are decent hard working people. Jews and Christian communities do exist in Iran. The Saudis as individuals are lazy and generally barbaric.
I sometimes think we have been sold a bill of goods.
Let the propaganda go (plenty of pro-Iran hot air on places like antiwar.com, remember). Not to diminish the problem in (and threat of) Saudi Arabia, it is still Iran that is the number one state sponsor of Islamic terrorism. The MB and its subsidiaries, especially Hamas, look to Iran, and Hamas especially has had longstanding military cooperation with Iranian group Hezbollah. All branches of al-Qa’eda, including the one in Iraq (remember who they became?) also have Iranian affiliation, which not even the liberal media can deny. The Taliban and Iran have even reconciled—there’s a Taliban office in Zahedan.
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