He would face at least six later attacks on his life, but in at least two he personally fought back, once with a British Sterling submachinegun and on another occasion with a cutdown Armalite AR-18 rifle carried in his car. In another attempt, the King was in an aircraft that came under attack, in which the attacker was simply outflown. In those three occasions, and possibly some of the others, personal skill at arms was what spared the monarch's life.
His son, King Abdullah, is fully aware of what happened to his father and grandfather and knows it could come his way any time as well. And he is prepared for it, as his father demonstrated and taught him, and as he learned as a fellow *Orange Gunsite* classmate in the United States as a student at Jeff Cooper's *Gunsite* Academy in Arizona.
