Saudi king hospitalized with pneumonia

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Friday, May 27, 2005 · Last updated 11:05 a.m. PT

Saudi king hospitalized with pneumonia

By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER





Saudi Arabian King Fahd looks out during an audience for German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh in a file photo from Oct. 5, 2003. King Fahd was taken to a Riyadh hospital on Friday for medical tests, the Saudi Press Agency said. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)


RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- King Fahd, who moved Saudi Arabia closer to the United States during his two-decade rule, was taken to a Riyadh hospital on Friday for medical tests, the Saudi Press Agency said.

The official news agency carried a royal office statement saying King Fahd, who has been in frail health for years, was admitted to King Faisal specialist hospital in Riyadh for medical tests.

"We ask God ... to preserve and protect" the king, the statement said.

One official said doctors believe the monarch has pneumonia. The official requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of his position.




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1. How similar to Iran is the situation in Saudi Arabia......

...to when the Shaw of Iran was deposed and Jimmy Carter was president?

<story link> http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/News/1979/November/4-Iranian_Hostage_Crisis.asp

<and another link> http://www.mondopolitico.com/discus/messages/68/907.html?1049386255