Word: abdulaziz
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...September 9 - the day then-FEMA director Michael Brown was relieved of his duties supervsing the hurricane response - for a previously-scheduled five-day trip for consultations with intelligence chiefs in such countries as Morocco and Afghanistan, as well as with Saudi Arabia's new ruler, King Abdullah bin-Abdulaziz...
...Shubra Khema, one of Cairo?s largest and poorest districts, a man identifying himself as a Mubarak volunteer followed a TIME reporter out of a polling station at the Omar bin Abdulaziz school to allege in a whisper that fellow NDP election workers and election officials had committed more than 200 instances of vote fraud. The man, who asked that his name not be used because he feared being arrested in retribution, claimed that party workers provided Mubarak with the names and registration numbers of other registered voters, and election officials then allowed the imposters to vote using the false...
...year era ended in Saudi Arabia Monday when King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud succumbed to his numerous ailments and died in a Riyadh hospital at the age of 84. Fahd effectively took the reins of power in 1975, serving as the de facto ruler under his brother King Khalid and then becoming King himself upon Khalid's death in 1982. Apart from Ibn Saud, the family patriarch who founded the country after conquering Arabian tribes, King Fahd has left a mark on the country-for better or worse-that no other ruler has rivaled...
...Arabia among the 19 hijackers. Despite the vote's obvious shortcomings, Saudi newspaper headlines hailed the Kingdom's ?historic? election day and speculated that next on the reform agenda would be balloting for the 120-member Shura Council, a quasi-parliament whose members are appointed by King Fahd bin Abdulaziz al Saud...
...many believe that the atrocity may finally spur the Saudi government to take more aggressive action against extremists. Johnson's murder was the latest in a rash of seemingly coordinated attacks that have killed 24 foreigners in the past month. Responsibility for the terror spree was claimed by Abdulaziz al-Muqrin, 31, believed to be al-Qaeda's chief in Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials said that hours after photos of Johnson's corpse were posted on an extremist website, Saudi security forces tracked down and killed al-Muqrin in a Riyadh suburb. According to the officials, government forces moved...