APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula articles from June 2004

APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula archives from June 2004

Pax Americana Is Changing - Part 15D - Saudi Arabia IV - The Decision Makers.
June 14, 2004... Formally, decision making on all matters of major importance in the state of Saudi Arabia is limited to three men at the very top: King Fahd, his half-brother Crown Prince Abdullah, and Fahd's most senior full-brother Prince Sultan. Decision...

SAUDI ARABIA - Profile - Fahd Ibn Abdel Aziz.
June 14, 2004... Born in Riyadh in 1923, ailing King Fahd is no longer as active as he used to be until he had a stroke in 1995 and his health and mental conditions deteriorated gradually in the subsequent years. But as long as he is alive, he remains formally...

SAUDI ARABIA - Profile - Abdullah Ibn Abdel Aziz.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... Now the de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah heads the conservative wing of the royal family while the Sudairi Seven represent the progressive wing. But after 9/11 (see Parts 1-3 of this survey), as the royal regime came under extremely heavy...

A Shammar Re-emergence.(Brief Article)
June 14, 2004... It is interesting to note here that the recently chosen interim President of the Iraqi Republic, Shaikh Ghazi Al Yawer born in Mosul (northern Iraq), is the grandson of the current paramount head of the Shammar tribes and is a relative to...

'Libyan Plot' To Kill Abdullah.
June 14, 2004... There were reports in the US media on June 10-11, 2004, about a failed Libyan plot to assassinate Prince Abdullah. In an article by Patrick E. Tyler of the NYT published on June 11, the lead paragraph said that, while the Libyan leader, Col....

SAUDI ARABIA - Profile - Sultan Ibn Abdel Aziz.
June 14, 2004... Born in Riyadh in 1928, Prince Sultan has been second deputy PM since June 1982, when his full-brother Fahd became king, and a defence/aviation minister since 1962. After completing his royal court education, his father King Abdel Aziz (Ibn...

SAUDI ARABIA - Profile - Nayef Ibn Abdel Aziz.
June 14, 2004... A few years younger than his full-brother Prince Sultan, Prince Nayef is the toughest among the Sudairi Seven. He has been the minister of interior since late March 1975, when his full-brother Fahd became crown prince, and conservative Wahhabi...

SAUDI ARABIA - Profile - Abdel Aziz Al Muqrin.
June 14, 2004... Leader of Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Arabian Peninsula, Muqrin heads the secret cells of radical Wahhabi militants in Saudi Arabia who are mostly in their 20s and unemployed. Muqrin was behind the May 29-30 attacks at Al-Khobar in Saudi...