Saudi king's health 'excellent'

[L. Coyote]

Source: (AFP) – 3 hours ago via Google News


RABAT — Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is in "excellent" health and anxious to return home from convalescing in Morocco following surgery, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said Thursday.

"He's in excellent health, he's undergoing therapy," the prince said in Morocco.

"The doctors are suggesting a certain amount of therapy and he's doing twice as much as they tell him. ...he is his usual self, assured of what he can do and ready and looking forward to going back to work and going back home."

Earlier the Saudi embassy in Morocco, where King Abdullah arrived on January 22 after surgery in the United States, strongly denied rumours that the octogenarian monarch had died.

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Good news.

[AngryAmish]

1. pics or it didn't happen

SO he has been upgraded from dead to really old.

[Lint Head]

2. I imagine he gives his physician a million dollars for each procedure.

That's chump change to a multi-billionaire. If I had that much money I would pay cash for a doctor and not have to worry about insurance unless I was a multi-billionaire that made his billions in the insurance racket. :sarcasm:

[Lint Head]

3. Maybe he french kissed GWB and it magically made him impervious

to old age and other maladies. I know french kissing GWB keeps you from being prosecuted for torture.

[dipsydoodle]

4. He's been advised

not to play tennis this week.

[elleng]

6. ...

:rofl:

[elleng]

5. 'The website www.islamtimes.org said

the king had died of a heart attack the previous day after a heated telephone debate with US President Barack Obama on the situation in Egypt.

The Times of London reported on Thursday that in a "testy, personal" telephone call with Obama on January 29, the king had threatened to bankroll the Egyptian regime if the United States withdrew its aid.

He also warned Washington not to humiliate veteran Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, saying he should be allowed to stay on to oversee the transition, the Times added, citing a senior source in Riyadh confirmed by two other sources.

King Abdullah had flown to New York on November 22 and was operated on two days later for a debilitating herniated disc complicated by a haematoma that put pressure on his spine.'

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[Ian David]

7. He's not dead yet.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. yeah, let's see him

and not photoshopped ala Soviet Leaders

[Bragi]

9. So no proetsts are needed? hah! /nt

[Arctic Dave]

10. If he has died, all the better for mankind. Rot in hell shitbag.

Some people make the world better by leaving it.

[hedgehog]

11. Just to play devil's advocate - even if the king is dead, the denials would

all be in place until the power struggles are settled ( and certain monies are moved to Swiss bank accounts, etc)

[xxqqqzme]

12. Surgery in the US,

therapy (physical therapy?) in Morocco. One would think w/ all that free flowing oil money there would be great hospitals and therapy available at 'home'. It seems he is so 'looking forward' to returning.

[Ghost Dog]

13. Yes. But that would only be economically viable

if made available to a much larger social cohort than just the handful of super-rich and hangers-on.