Isn’t this bad? I think he and his wife (American) are good folks. If this is true, I hope that he recovers quickly. God only knows who will be put in his place especially with Obama in office.
American wife? I believe you are confusing King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah of Jordan. The second Abdullah, the King of Jordan, has an American wife (and an American mother, for what it is worth).
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whom I have been aware of since 1980, is/was of a very conservative Islamic stripe, whom many of the Americans who were in 'The Magic Kingdom' at the same time *I* was, never wanted to see ascend to the throne. We all preferred that his half-brother Fahd to succeed King Khalid, which is what happened. Abdullah succeeded Fahd, which concerned me at the time it happened, but it appears that my concerns may (or may not) have been unjustified (there is so much hidden about 'The Magic Kingdom' to even observant eyes that an outsider really never fully knows the score...)
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