You Will Anyway: Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud

Sunday:

Interestingly, when I followed the embedded link on Sunday, there was an Arabic Twitter account which I could not read, and another article claimed the Saudis were denying the rumored reports, saying the king is alive and well.

Today, however, following that links returns a page that says "Account suspended."

Hmmmmm.

Here's another Tweet from Sunday that went nowhere:

And yet, today:

Is the Saudi king giving up the throne? According the the Egyptian Television network "El-Nha'r, the Saudi king will announce in the next few days that he is giving up his crown.

Jerusalem Online

Your guess is as good as mine.

Of course, we’ve been down this road before.

Monday, May 27, 2013: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is reported to be clinically dead as the monarch is not recently seen in the public. A Saudi journalist working for London-Based Asharq Alawsat says the Saudi monarch has been clinically dead since Wednesday. He also quoted medical sources in Saudi Arabia as saying that the king’s vital organs, including his heart, kidneys and lungs, have stopped functioning.

Press TV

And, before that…

November 27, 2012: Saudi Arabia has been awash with rumors regarding the fate of its elderly king.

Arab diplomatic sources said the Gulf Cooperation Council kingdom was battling rumors that King Abdullah was dying. They said Abdullah, believed to be more than 95 and hospitalized since Nov. 16, was struggling after another round of spinal surgery.

World Tribune

And before that...

February 10, 2011: A source is laying to rest a rumor that the king of Saudi Arabia is dead.

An adviser to a senior member of the ruling family says King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz is alive.

Abdullah has been on the mend in Morocco since January after he had surgery in the U.S. for a blood clot that complicated a slipped disc.

InfoWars

Apparently, the king's age is unknown – at least by western media. Another article says he’s 90, not "more than 95." The short of it is, he's very old, And sick. Sooner or later, he really will die.

Abdullah's half-brother Salman, 77, is next in line to the throne. He was named crown prince in June 2012 following the death of Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz.

Yahoo

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