Saud

Blogger Nervana Mahmoud says the House of Saud and other Arab royal families have themselves to blame for the rise of al-Baghdadi.

In On Saudi Arabia, journalist Karen Elliott House describes the odd silence that seems to surround the House of Saud.

Fahd recognized only too well the essential contradictions in the relationship between the Land of the Free and the House of Saud.

To be sure, softer words along similar lines had come privately from Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal.

His father was king and his brother, Saud al-Faisal, is the longtime foreign minister.

Having consolidated the Nejd, Saud was now ready to undertake the greater task of subduing and purifying the Moslem world.

The steamers arrived off Abba at sunset, and, in spite of Abu Saud's appeals, the two officers determined to disembark at once.

When he died in 1787 his disciple, Saud, proved a worthy successor.