Sultan of Oman has died

Arab News ^ | Jan. 11, 2020

[nuconvert]

Oman's Sultan Qaboos bin Said died on Friday evening, state media said early on Saturday. Qaboos, 79, had ruled the Gulf Arab state since he took over in a bloodless coup in 1970.

Qaboos had no children and had not publicly appointed a successor. A 1996 statute says the ruling family will choose a successor within three days of the throne becoming vacant.

If they fail to agree, a council of military and security officials, supreme court chiefs and heads of the two assemblies will put in power the person whose name has been secretly written by the sultan in a sealed letter.

[School of Rational Thought]

Was I included in his will?

[nuconvert]

Qaboos’s 45 years in power makes him the longest-serving head of state in the Arab world

[nickcarraway]

Oh man.

RIP

[nuconvert]

Better coverage of his history

https://gulfnews.com/world/gulf/oman/sultan-qaboos-architect-of-modern-oman-1.68664710

[Billthedrill]

If they fail to agree, a council of military and security officials, supreme court chiefs and heads of the two assemblies will put in power the person whose name has been secretly written by the sultan in a sealed letter.

Oh, man, I'm gonna be a sultan. You guys are gonna be sooo jealous...

[null and void]

How many wives and still no children?

[nuconvert]

Yeah, there’s a note in the envelope with Billthedrill on it?

[BradyLS]

I was notified by Qataran prince. I put a few thousand down while they clear up some account transfer issues. Millions will be mine presently. It was nice of him to remember me.

J/K

[untenured]

I remember reading about this guy as the head of state as far back as the 1970s. If he had no kids when he died, obviously it’s his plumbing that wasn’t right.

[Rebelbase]

Obviously he was not a Sultan of Swing.

[null and void]

Dunno, maybe his gate only swung the other way?

[Billthedrill]

I slipped it in last time I was in the palace in Oman for pinochle night. The one that was in there had a bunch of Arabic on it anyway.

[jcon40]

Yes. You are in the will. Call 911

[dfwgator]

“Goodnight, now it’s time to go home”
Then he makes it fast with one more thing
“We are the Sultans
We are the Sultans of Swing”

[BenLurkin]

Caboose?

[nuconvert]

Looks like he was married once for only 3 years back in the 1970’s.

[Drew68]

I've been to Oman a couple of times; Muscat and Salalah. Beautiful country. Not ostentatious like Dubai. It was small and quiet, yet the size of California.

I do recall the Omanis being the genuinely nicest people I had ever met. They're Muslims, sure, but of a flavor of Islam peculiar only to Oman.

[BradyLS]

Yes, when the Qaboos passed, his long (t)reign was at an end.

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