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SAUDI ARABIA - Profile - Abdullah Ibn Abdel Aziz Al Saud.(Prince, First Deputy Premier, Commander of the National Guard)(Brief Article)

From: APS Diplomat Operations in Oil Diplomacy  |  Date: 11/27/2000

Born in August 1924, Prince Abdullah rules a kingdom which is in transition between the ageing sons of the late King Abdel Aziz (Ibn Saud) to the better-educated grandsons. It is a transition which is to last until a chosen grandson of Ibn Saud has become king. In the Saudi tradition - but this is not necessarily the system which will apply after Abdullah as King Fahd made a change in 1992 - the crown prince is the first deputy prime minister and is first in the line of succession ...

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