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Saudi King Abdullah Dies
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Posted on 01/22/2015 3:27:53 PM PST by 22202NOVA

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102292477

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: abdullah; egypt; houseofsaud; iran; iraq; israel; kingabdullah; kingabdullahobit; kingsalman; ksa; lebanon; obituary; opec; princesalman; royals; saudi; saudiarabia; syria; waronterror; yemen
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To: bimboeruption

NOVA... “The Bushes are heading East as we speak”... with Obama in trace.


61 posted on 01/22/2015 3:55:33 PM PST by Joe Marine 76 ("Honor is the gift a man gives to himself." ~ Rob Roy MacGregor)
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To: caww

Better than the clown we have. At least he fought for his country.


62 posted on 01/22/2015 3:55:51 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Compared to obama, Jimmy Carter looks like Winston Churchill.)
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To: maggief
New Point man ! 'King' Salman bin Abdul Aziz..shout out lolol!


63 posted on 01/22/2015 3:56:33 PM PST by caww
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To: Borges

The Saudis are not known for messy power struggles. Everyone in the family is kept happy by spreading the wealth and power around pretty liberally, and they know that if they aren’t united, they could lose it all.


64 posted on 01/22/2015 3:58:20 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: null and void

Perhaps literally “Biblical”, the way things are shaping up.


65 posted on 01/22/2015 3:59:33 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Indeed!


66 posted on 01/22/2015 4:01:00 PM PST by null and void (The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
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To: 22202NOVA

That leaves Obama unemployed, doesn’t it?

Who will Obama be reporting to, now, and getting his orders from?

Or has Valerie Jarrett always handled communications from the home office to the White House?


67 posted on 01/22/2015 4:02:03 PM PST by Arthur McGowan
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To: Joe Marine 76
Bush with new king Salman aziz


68 posted on 01/22/2015 4:02:55 PM PST by caww
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To: Lazamataz

That’s the real danger, not that the Sauds start fighting each other, but that their enemies take advantage of this to try and oust them while they are in transition.

With the government in Yemen apparently falling today, and ISIS and Iran both jockeying to be the head of “militant Islam”, the Saudis are in a tricky spot.

Oh yeah, and they also recently pissed off the Russians by driving down oil prices. They’re allied with Iran, Syria, and Hezbollah, and also supply the majority of the arms to Egypt, who is Saudi Arabia’s primary military protector. So that probably doesn’t help.


69 posted on 01/22/2015 4:05:09 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: null and void

He wouldn’t miss is dear old dad’s funeral.


70 posted on 01/22/2015 4:05:34 PM PST by CommieCutter
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To: Red in Blue PA

He fought extremists by letting the kingdom fund them as long they kept it out of the kingdom. He bought American congressfools left and right. He let the wahabbists spread all over America and funded all their mosque building.
Oh, and he stood for every antithesis of the US Constitution and the founders. He would let you be beheaded of you opened a church or synagogue in his country.

With “Pro American” guys like him, we don’t need enemies.


71 posted on 01/22/2015 4:06:02 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: 22202NOVA

Okay, but since he has been sick so long, I am betting the transfer of power has already taken place long ago.


72 posted on 01/22/2015 4:07:22 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: CommieCutter; bert

Assuming, as bert pointed out at post 50, that he’s even invited...


73 posted on 01/22/2015 4:07:49 PM PST by null and void (The aggregate effect of competitive capitalism is indistinguishable from magic)
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To: null and void

He’ll be a pall bearer.


74 posted on 01/22/2015 4:09:01 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: KC_Lion

LOL!


75 posted on 01/22/2015 4:09:33 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: RinaseaofDs

“ISIS is a militant Shiite group.”

No, ISIS are Sunni, just an even more “fundamentalist” flavor of Sunni than the usual Saudi Wahhabis.


76 posted on 01/22/2015 4:09:40 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: caww
New Kings son...."Prince-Salman-Bin-Abdul-Aziz-Bin-Salman-Bin-Muhammad-Al-Saud"...


77 posted on 01/22/2015 4:10:20 PM PST by caww
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To: 22202NOVA

“Iran Reports Saudi King’s Death: A Green Light for War?” http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/iran-reports-saudi-kings-death-a-green-light-for-war/


78 posted on 01/22/2015 4:10:32 PM PST by blueyon (The U. S. Constitution - read it and weep)
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To: RinaseaofDs
'Some time before 9/11, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, once the powerful Saudi ambassador in Washington and head of Saudi intelligence until a few months ago, had a revealing and ominous conversation with the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove. Prince Bandar told him: "The time is not far off in the Middle East, Richard, when it will be literally 'God help the Shia'. More than a billion Sunnis have simply had enough of them."'

79 posted on 01/22/2015 4:11:12 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: potlatch

Why should WE follow their customs? Why isn’t he told Americans will think you are a homo if you try to kiss a man? Why isn’t the Queen of England told Americans do not follow court protocol?

Why are we always the ones having to give in. If we admit they are all lesser peoples, then cool. That would be like not scaring a savage. But if we do it out of respect, that’s wrong unless they show us the same deference and respect.


80 posted on 01/22/2015 4:11:22 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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