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King Fahd Admitted To Hospital in Saudi Arabia
CFRB 1010am Breaking News Alert | May 27, 2005

Posted on 05/27/2005 9:35:17 AM PDT by mitchbert

Saudi King Fahd has been rushed to hospital, as per just breaking report heard on CFRB1010am News Radio (Toronto). Saudi press saying people should "pray for him." That's all right now.

I will update as more info becomes available. Everyone else welcome to do the same.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: houseofsaud; islamkills; kingfaud; oilforfood; royals; saudi; saudiarabia
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To: mitchbert

The King should suffer long and die hard, then I hope his kingdom falls into the hands of the Islamo-facists then Bush will have a good reason to to invade Saudia Arabia and
establish a base from which he can launch massive attacks on the remaining portions of the Islamo-facist world, or even maybe Bush could face his Chinese "friends" in the
ultimate face-off, they wouldnt like us choking off their oil supply but we certainly need to stomp the Chinese before they stomp us, and there is no time like the present.


41 posted on 05/27/2005 10:05:00 PM PDT by claptrap (optional tagline under re-consideration)
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To: ConservativeMan55
Did he get shot?

That would likely have required him getting out of bed.

Not likely, he's been vegatative for years.

42 posted on 05/27/2005 10:38:10 PM PDT by Dinsdale
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Great, I see the lovely enlightened people on this thread are wishing for his death and suffering. Wonderful day to be proud to be on FR!!! NOT!!!

Come on people. Just because they do it doesn't mean it is ok for us to go ahead and do it back. That would be called stooping to their level. The United States and her citizens shouldn't do that.


43 posted on 05/28/2005 6:35:09 AM PDT by MikefromOhio (Is anyone else ready for football to begin again?)
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To: GOPJ

"King Fahd's beem a friend to the United States. And he's been a good ruler to his people. He's not the problem in Saudia Arabia."

How the heck can a man who is both king AND prime minister be a good ruler? That concept alone is enough to make me want to puke. And then you add his support for, at the very least, Palestinian murderers, and man, with friends like these...


44 posted on 05/28/2005 10:38:59 AM PDT by anticommunist8
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How the heck can a man who is both king AND prime minister be a good ruler? That concept alone is enough to make me want to puke. And then you add his support for, at the very least, Palestinian murderers, and man, with friends like these...

While all you state is truth, there is another truth which you have missed. King Fahd of Saudi Arabia is what we would term a despot, but the alternatives for his countrymen are far worse. Fahd, for all his faults, which are admittedly legion, did at least attempt to modernize his country, back when he first assumed the throne.

The result was the hijacking of the holy site in Mecca, during the height of the pilgrimage season, by extremists. A number of pilgrims were killed, and the Saudi military was required to retake control of the site by force of arms. While the captured extremeists were subsequently executed, the forces behind them were never publicly revealed, although someone who has some passing familiarity with the kingdom, and its various power blocs can readily ascertain who was behind it, and more importantly, why.

The who is very easy, it was done at the behest of hard-line Saudi clerics, who are in a very tense, fragile accord with the royal house in running the country. The why, once the who is stated, is even easier. The clerics want the title "Defender of the Holy Sites" to devolve to them and not the king, and furthermore, they absolutely do not want any "Western" style reforms in the kingdom, as that could diminish their own power.

So, they embarrassed the king publicly, and in the end, with complete impunity, achieving the second part of their goals, stopping reform in its tracks. They favor, and always have, that Abdullah be king, as he is more in line with their philosophies than Fahd ever was...

the infowarrior

45 posted on 05/28/2005 11:05:56 PM PDT by infowarrior (TANSTAAFL)
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To: mitchbert

I thought King Fahd was in a coma for the last 20 years.


46 posted on 05/30/2005 3:48:35 PM PDT by thathamiltonwoman
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I'll pray that he rests in pieces.


47 posted on 05/30/2005 11:11:16 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: mitchbert

I thot he died last week?


48 posted on 05/31/2005 7:39:12 AM PDT by bboop
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