Word: fahd
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...some demands of its own. The Saudi leadership is reportedly outraged by Israel's reaction to the latest Palestinian uprising, and wants to see the U.S. play a more evenhanded role in the region. Crown Prince Abdullah, de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia since his half brother King Fahd's stroke, has warned, for example, that the kingdom would break ties with any country that moved its embassy to the disputed city of Jerusalem...
...pushing for American troops to go in to defend Saudi Arabia. "Dick was probably ahead of his military on this," Bush wrote in his and Scowcroft's memoir, A World Transformed. Cheney was dispatched to Saudi Arabia for one of the most sensitive missions of the war, persuading King Fahd to agree to a massive deployment of U.S. forces in the region--425,000 troops as it turned out, by January...
...Egyptian leader and pan-Arabist--but melancholy. Coming soon after the death of Jordan's King Hussein, Assad's passing marked a changing of the guard--and, perhaps, new volatility--in the region as leaders like Egypt's Hosni Mubarak (71), Yasser Arafat (71) and Saudi Arabia's King Fahd (79) grow...