House of Saud, News and Current Events 2: November 2005-June 2013


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On April 16th 2010 HM the King of Bahrain honored Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah by giving him the historic Ajrab sword of Imam Turki bin Abdullah, which the country has been keeping for 140 years, and conferred on him the Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al-Khalifa Medal during a colorful ceremony at Al-Sakhir Palace. - Gulf News

*Pic 1* *Pic 2* *Pic 3* *Pic 4* *Pic 5* *Pic 6* - credits AP
 
King orders separation of conjoined Iraqi twins

Iraqi conjoined twins were to be flown in coming days to Saudi Arabia to undergo separation surgery after the Saudi king offered to pay for the operation, officials said Tuesday.The two-week-old twins Zainab and Ruqqaya Naseer, from the Shiite holy city of Najaf in southern Iraq, are joined at the hip and have problems with their digestive and reproductive systems.
Saudi King Abdullah offered to fly the twins, who were born on June 5, to Riyadh and to pay for the separation surgery, according to a statement by chief surgeon Abdullah al-Rabia at the King Abdul-Aziz Medical in Riyadh.
Al-Rabia has performed nearly 30 successful surgeries for conjoined twins from 16 countries. Those included another set of Iraqi conjoined twins who were separated after 20 hours of surgery in 2006. - AP
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8 Year Old Saudi girl marries 58 y/o man

This is SICK:bang::bang::bang: As a mother of a 7 y/o I'm angry by this story!!!

Many young girls in Arab countries that observe tribal traditions are married to older husbands but not before puberty. Such marriages are also driven by poverty in countries like Yemen, one of the poorest countries outside Africa.

Saudis to review marriage law after 8 year old weds man, 58 - Telegraph
 
US president and Saudi president talk....

This is a great story, I thought I would share some of sites with others :flowers::flowers:


Saudi King Abdullah can be a strong partner for President Obama -


http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/106105-saudi-king-abdullah-can-be-a-strong-partner-for-president-obama

Another article with picture - Obama, Saudi King discuss 2-state Mideast solution | Reuters
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PhillyGurl said:
Saudi King Abdullah can be a strong partner for President Obama
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Prince warns Saudi Arabia of apocalypse
Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud has warned the country's royal family to step down and flee before a military coup or a popular uprising overthrows the kingdom.
In a letter published by Wagze news agency on Tuesday, the Cairo-based prince warned Saudi Arabia's ruling family of a fate similar to that of Iraq's executed dictator Saddam Hussein and the ousted Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, calling on them to escape before people "cut off our heads in streets."
 
Kasumi - what......? Where did this come from? An Apocalypse? I don't believe this...the Saudi family GOT FRIENDS! A known fact, during GW Bush last year in office when gas was $4 here in the USA; he decreased gas by have the Saudi family decrease the price of oil...! That was a historical event..because the Saudi family showed the word they control THE OIL! The US and UK loves these guys!!! I don't see them going down without much help! The US, UK and Germany owes these guys soooo much they won't fall. I'm going to have to do some research on this one.... The international community ran out the Shah and Saddam...the international community is in the pocket of the Saudis....Don't make sense! JMO
 
Anything can happen, anywhere. I don't think the I.S. or the U.K, will risk their lives for the Saudis. Unstable regions, always face a risk. How accurate this is is unknown.
 
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COUNTESS said:
Anything can happen, anywhere. I don't think the I.S. or the U.K, will risk their lives for the Saudis. Unstable regions, always face a risk. How accurate this is is unknown.
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If they can waste their time on small "member states" such as Iraqi, Afgan, Yemen, Kuwait...they will for sure waste time on a larger "member state" such as Saudi Arabia. :flowers: Its important to have friends in every region and believe it or not..they are friends.
 
WOW engagement everywhere in arab royals families:)
congratulation to the couple.
 
I was at hotel in Beverly Hills and I bumped into this guy. I knew he was from the middle east but what I didn't know and was told later that he is a Saudi Prince. I should've known by his attitude, the way be dressed and his bodyguards. I haven't seen him since but it looked like he was having a good time in Los Angeles.
 
Saudi Prince accused in his aide's murder during the trial in London - BBC
The 34-year-old denies murder and a second count of grievous bodily harm with intent in relation to an alleged assault on Mr Abdulaziz in a lift on January 22. - Daily Mail
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A Saudi prince accused of murdering his servant at a London hotel could face the death penalty in his home country over his alleged gay sex life, a court has heard. - Press Association
 
King Abdullah's continuing reform program

From the Sydney Morning Herald 20 October 2010

Saudi king hobbles power of Muslim clergy
RIYADH: When Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah appeared in a newspaper photo with 40 veiled women in April, he broke a taboo by mixing with the opposite sex in public.

Since then, the 86-year-old monarch has crimped the power of conservative Muslim clerics more than any of his five predecessors since the foundation of the kingdom in 1932. He prohibited unauthorised religious edicts, or fatwas, and shut some of the websites on which they are issued. In the past month, he backed supermarkets employing women for the first time.

Describing a ''struggle over who controls Saudi Arabia,'' Robert Lacey, the author of the 2009 book Inside the Kingdom, said: ''Ten to 15 years ago, it would have been very difficult for a Saudi king to discipline the clergy.''

The friction between king and clerics underscores a shift in Saudi society from the dominance of strict Islamic law. The king is spearheading the move by forging a Saudi national identity and bringing women into the workforce to try to make the economy less dependent on oil.
 
Saudi crown prince 'in good health': Son

..."My father is in very good health and he is on his annual vacation," assistant defence minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan told reporters...
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and another article from reuters
 
dazzling said:
There is no cover up. The prince is being held & will be charged, the Saudi embassy said that they will not interfer in it.
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The point is Dazzling, that if this were in the Gulf States it WOULD have been covered up as everyone very well knows... There is no question of a cover up of a Murder in the UK where all are equal before the Law, where even Prince Charles can be arrested & prosecuted were he to ever commit a crime. The prospect of the Saudi Royal Family interfering has showed them to be limply impotent as they attempted to request that evidence of the sadistic Homosexual relationship HH Prince Saud Bin Abdulaziz Bin Nasser Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, had with his "servent" and the Prince's ordering of Gay Escorts to his hotel not be held in public, this wasn't given a moment's regard & was inturn headline news uncencored in TV, Radio, Print & Internet. Even were this animal to have Diplomatic Immunitiy there would have been massive publicity & public... political pressure to have it lifted. If that failed he would have been expelled from the UK.
 
King Abdullah is world's third most powerful person: Forbes
WASHINGTON: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah was ranked third in the list of the World's Most Powerful People released Thursday by the leading American business magazine Forbes....Article
 
A child refused to go to school unless she saw the Saudi prince

A Saudi child refused to go to school before she meets a member of the royal family who she had sighted during a recent visit to her town. Rania Al Ghamdi, from the southwestern town of Aqeeq, remained adamant and insisted she would not go to class unless her family takes her to the palace to meet the Prince, Mashari bin Saud, the Emir of Baha, near her town and say "hi" to him. - Emirates 24/7.com
 
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