The barefaced lie about Gadaffi being killed in the crossfire bodes ill for the openness, transparency and good government we can expect to see now in Libya. But today I am worrying about the effect on our society of human death as entertainment. I have never been an apologist for Gadaffi, but if his regime tortured and murdered, the remedy is not to torture and murder him – even the Nazis were given due process.
This murder is becoming the norm. It was a NATO air strike which took out Gadaffi’s escaping convoy and first wounded him. Two days ago two teenage sons of Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical US/Yemeni cleric executed without trial last week, were executed by a US drone attack as they had dinner. They were aged 16 and 19. They had committed no crime I can find alleged against them. There has been no publicity.
All this killing brings triumphalist politicians smirking on our screens. We seem to have become as dehumanised as ancient Rome. Little human pity is expressed for the way Gadaffi was killed – indeed there is notably less media reflection of pity or revulsion than there was at the (at least judicial) hanging of Saddam Hussein. Is that a measure of the descent into bloodlust barbarism in our society? The complete lack of empathy towards the traveller families being torn from their homes at Dale Farm is part of the same brutalism towards “the other”. Why don’t we go the whole way and have them eaten by lions in the ring?
History shows that bloody appetite once aroused feeds upon itself. We have already had Defence Secretary Hammond on Sky News today positing NATO action now against Syria, while the current US proto-pretext for attacking Iran – the fantasy plot against the Saudi Ambassador – is as believable as Gadaffi’s death in the crossfire.
More death is on the way, to keep the circus going. Then the crowds may not notice there is no bread – no jobs, and their earnings and income eaten up by huge state enforced transfers to the bankers, whether by bailouts or “quantitive easing”.
Quantitive Easing is the best con of all for the ruling classes. In the UK, the £225 billion of printed money to date under quantitive easing has been – every single penny – given to the bankers. Good money for bad, used to buy up the junk bonds which the bankers bought in their terrible investment decision making, and for which fake assets they had awarded themselves many, many billions in personal bonuses. They are rescued from the consequences of their disastrous judgements by the Bank of England printing (in old parlance) new, good money to buy the rubbish they invested in. The result – more rounds of huge personal bonuses for celebrating bankers!! Hooray!!! For you and I, stagflation.
30 months ago, when I explained that Q.E. was another huge transfer to the bankers and predicted it would lead to stagflation, I was widely ridiculed across the web. Now we have the stagflation and everything I predicted has come to pass.
All of which you would normally expect to make people pretty unhappy at the biggest transfer of wealth from poor to rich in history.
Quick! More War! More Militarism! More Blood! More Executions! More Victory for Democracy! Keep the Peasants Happy!
Get a Move On There! Come On!! Come On!! More Blood!! More Blood, Quick, Damn You!!
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Mary,
The troops are needed for the next ‘adventure’ Mary – While security companies in Iraq maintain fear and American and Israeli corporations plunder Iraq’s revenue from energy sources.
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Our leaders Writerman are compelled to align with the American empire building machine while turning their backs on Europe. I have exposed an American dictatorial nationalism and religious fundamentalism, in other words America is the ‘chosen’ elite force which all countries must embrace or die.
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America is on path to control the world’s resources while attempting exploitation of the world’s populations. They rely on Britain and her imperial history to framework the plan going forward before America (NATO) invokes her military might. Sorry, one is blind if this reality is not perceived. America is a police state, her people are subdued by force and financial stress. Her constitution has been destroyed and she is willing to evoke fear-control even in the face of terrorism which she allowed and magnified to further a crusade to bring American ‘democracy’ to the rest of the world. While fulfilling this divine task, American interests may well be rewarded with control of Middle Eastern oil.
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Powerful America – the ‘great Satan’ is the primary source of weapons manufacture in the world and an influential number of its decision makers embrace an ideology that justifies U.S. wars of aggrandizement as divinely sanctioned.
Mark Golding, we can always vote them out
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8785
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It is entirely reasonable to put one’s mind to spiritual matters, but it isn’t reasonable to find a GPRS satellite location for this activity. The bible-bashing neo-con politicians of the US are mad. And like Gaddafi, their madness amounts to nothing more than political strategy.
The Islamic duty of living with other Muslims is important because the blunt instruments of state authority are negotiated with by Muslim people with far more tact and diplomacy than I possess. In a Muslim area I can go about my daily business without harrassment from racism from police or ordinary citizens.
America is on path to control the world’s resources while attempting exploitation of the world’s populations. They rely on Britain and her imperial history to framework the plan going forward before America (NATO) invokes her military might. … America is a police state, her people are subdued by force and financial stress. Her constitution has been destroyed and she is willing to evoke fear-control even in the face of terrorism which she allowed and magnified to further a crusade to bring American ‘democracy’ to the rest of the world. While fulfilling this divine task, American interests may well be rewarded with control of Middle Eastern oil.
A nice summation except for one small point ~ “America” is not the architect, but the pawn. (Or rook, knight, bishop and queen if you prefer.) This “divine” plan was devised and contracted three thousand years ago, for a term that has actually expired. We’re watching the consolidation of what the other contracting party bought in their bargain with the devil.
But as with any such bargain, what they imagined they were buying is not what they will actually get. A melting pot of goy beans ready to serve is not something one should put in a pressure cooker. The resulting explosion can have unintended consequences.
Mark Golding, we can always vote them out
That’s their plan.
Mark
2 years ago the Eurozone was looking much healthier than the UK economy. This Eurosceptic government has, with the help of their Zio-banker friends, turned that round into an insolvency crisis for the Eurozone. Smelling blood the Tory M.P.s want to break relations with the Eurozone, based on one year’s manipulation.
As somebody said before. ‘The parts is the dog.’
The speed of the change in the Eurozone, from it looking as though we would ask them for help, to looking like we are going to make a political split from them is evidence of the enourmous power of the Zio=bankers. Cui bono? Divide and Rule, Amen.
So be it, Anno, verily.
To those querying stagflation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stagflation
It doesn’t mean stagnation of inflation. It means inflation coupled with low economic growth. Which is exactly what we have, and it is extremely damaging.
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This is not actually direct quotation from Nietzsche but rather summary of his thoughts about realm of society and relation of power and morality. This idea is particularly underlined in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Will to Power.
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Thanks, Uzbek. I think however that it is important to understand that “Will To Power” was a collection of Nietzsche’s thoughts collated after his death by his rather venal sister who wanted to promote a body of work that Nietzsche is unlikely to have endorsed while alive. Essentially, if Will to Power were hadiths then these hadiths would be of the utmost in unreliability. The concept of “Will to Power” was, anyway, one of the most underdeveloped and probably idiotic ideas of the otherwise very intriguing thinker. I would say that Thus Spoke Zarathustra also suffers too from rather wild interpretations.
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Nietzsche’s an interesting thinker and I like him but I would be very hesitant about saying that he got anything right. Maybe his best contribution was on the genealogy of morals and his idea that I remember reading from Beyond Good and Evil of the indifferent universe. I tend to think he is correct about these things and find the conclusions from these things troubling.
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By the way, I should say that I really enjoy your contributions here and I am glad that you provide somewhat heterodox views to those which are often deployed here as yet more examples of “independent thinking”. It’s amusing to watch lots of independent thinkers flock together but even more so for someone like yourself to question this “herd morality”! 😉
Has anybody got any news about Mikel and Nina Malyshev? Have they been deported?
Libya – Democracy – Election or Selection?
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A sovereign government in Libya selected by appointment. A ‘very funny way of doing any kind of democracy’ – Iraq leader.
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Understand the mechanism:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK12wgs2mvA
Anno wrote: It is entirely reasonable to put one’s mind to spiritual matters, but it isn’t reasonable to find a GPRS satellite location for this activity.
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Seven billion people are moved by one or another “spirit” in everything they do, their actions making manifest the inspirations that either overcome their weakened will or strengthen their will. The “location for this activity” is observable ~ and within the reasonable grasp of the rational human intellect in toto without any need for comprehensive realization of the details. What is unreasonable is imagining that any one set of details is comprehensible of the whole except in its context as an element of the dynamic interplay of manifestations of inspirations. It’s necessary to view what we can see from the perspective of the motive forces ~ the spiritual dynamics moving toward immunity from entropy ~ in order to avoid mistaking the direction of an isolated set of events for the direction of the whole.
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For example, the “Occupy Wall Street” set of events, seen in isolation, is an incipient “revolution” ~ an alteration of the structure of social relationships involved in the subsistence mechanisms of American society. Its conscious aim is the optimization of those mechanisms to more effectively serve their intended functions of production and distribution, by increasing the control by the intended beneficiaries of those mechanisms over the systems and people controlling distribution. In the context of the motive dynamics, this can be more clearly seen as an institution of more affirmative control over the secular/economic activity of the entire population, expected to diminish economic control over the spiritual/familial activities of the populace. In history, however, that has never been the result of such a political enterprise ~ it has only made the powerful more powerful, the rich richer, and the poor poorer, all in the name of “The People” who imagine they have initiated it and brought it to pass.
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It’s necessary to view events in context from the perspective of actual control ~ dominion ~ power ~ over the worldly fortunes of humanity, which requires a grasp of the motivating spirits that move people to action. The strongest of these ~ for humanity ~ is the spirit of dominion (the essence of “khalifa”) which primarily motivates everyone at least personally from the time they learn to walk and talk. (Exclusive self-control is the first independent will manifested by the developing human animal.)
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… The bible-bashing neo-con politicians of the US are mad.
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They are deluded pawns, just as manipulated as their opponents.
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And like Gaddafi, their madness amounts to nothing more than political strategy.
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It’s a revolutionary strategem. Study Lenin.
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The Islamic duty of living with other Muslims is important because the blunt instruments of state authority are negotiated with by Muslim people with far more tact and diplomacy than I possess.
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The only “Islamic duty” is the same duty that all people have ~ to exercise the sovereignty delegated to them by God, over such dominions as He places in their hands, in the manner which God has uniquely ordained for each of the four faiths expressive of His Majesty.
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In a Muslim area I can go about my daily business without harrassment from racism from police or ordinary citizens.
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Muslims, like everyone else, are susceptible to the same “spiritual” influences you find displeasing, and perhaps more susceptible to some “prejudicial” influences than others. Some of us have better defenses than other muslims and resist those influences, some of us have better manners than other muslims and are better able to conceal manifestation of those influences. Although I, a muslim, can go into any “ethnic” area of any faith or none, and be at least superficially welcome, there are some “muslim” areas that I, an indigenous white American muslim, would have preferred to pass by. Americans do not have a monopoly on inhuman savagery, ignorance, or bad manners, and you rarely see the better of us on television.
The paragraph …
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The Islamic duty of living with other Muslims is important because the blunt instruments of state authority are negotiated with by Muslim people with far more tact and diplomacy than I possess.
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Angrysober said, ‘It’s amusing to watch lots of independent thinkers flock together but even more so for someone like yourself to question this “herd morality”!’
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You have exposed the influence of your understanding of a central theme of Friedrich Nietzsche’s works, that of master/slave morality. At its extreme this ‘master morality’ is the powerhouse behind dictatorial nationalism, that of national pride, strength and nobility. Taking pride in a nation is fine, but the consequences can be manipulated to justify destruction and death of so called ‘evil’ entities, ie the ‘axis of evil’ which Bush describes opposed to Western power.
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Slave morality has its values things like kindness, humility and sympathy and it is the consequences of these values that sustain a common belief and bind ‘independent thinkers’ which is not your ‘herd mentality’ a term better applied to master morality which is the exegesis of the terms ‘good and bad’ as defined by the masters of morality, totally corrupted by the West and worthless.
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Thankfully it is ‘slave morality’ that has aroused revulsion, shock and even contempt of the popular media such as the much read ‘Sun’ comic’s graffiti and debased headline on Gaddafi’s demise.
Good article, thank you.
The damage done by forty years of Gaddafi rule is totally insignificant compared to what NATO has done and will do to Libya in the foreseeable future. Gaddafi was Solomon compared to NATO. Even if he did hang hundreds of prisoners at Abu Salim after the MI6 ‘Tunworth’ putsch. This year’s NATO attack began in February with the smuggling of a mountain of weapons into Benghazi and ended with a barbaric killing on TV after the destruction, yet again, of most of a country. Wake up, Craig. Nothing Gaddafi did justified this. NATO did Lockerbie, Fletcher and the Berlin disco bombing. You need to accept that. Nice ambassadors are merely whores in the window. Behind them is plunder and chaos, and often a bloodbath. We’ve seen it over and over again since 1989. The lads of the NTC should all be given visas for the UK and be let loose with all their weapons on the British government, and especially the FCO. We should simply close down our embassies and get the Israelis to represent us. After all, didn’t Levy replace Robin Cook (before he was poisoned by John Scarlett)?
http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/56633/labour-friends-go-israel
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Among the group was Rachel Reeves who has just been given the Treasury job of Shadow Shadow Chief Secretary by Millipede. Just like brand new MP Chloe Smith, Conservative Friend of Israel and now Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Reeves is a new MP.
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Our friendly Jewish Ambassador to Israel met them and assume welcomed them to the Israeli Zionist state. The trees that were planted in memory of another Friend of Israel MP David Cairns were most probably planted in Canada Park, a forest planted over destroyed Palestinian villages.
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Labour Friends go to Israel
By Marcus Dysch, October 19, 2011
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Labour Friends of Israel has led its first delegation to the country for two years, with seven MPs meeting political and business leaders.
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The week-long tour included a trip to Ramallah and visits to Israel’s northern borders with Lebanon and Syria.
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On the delegation were MPs Anne McGuire, Rachel Reeves, Jonathan Reynolds, Dan Jarvis, Michael McCann and Pamela Nash. New LFI chairman John Woodcock MP led the visit.
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Ms Reeves was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet earlier this month; Mr Reynolds and Mr Jarvis were promoted to the front bench.
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During their stay they travelled to communities in southern Israel which have been targeted by Hamas rocket attacks, and toured Yad Vashem.
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They met Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, PA minister Ghassan Al Khateeb, visited the West Bank security barrier and a new Palestinian city being built near Ramallah.
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British ambassador Matthew Gould hosted a meeting with the delegation, who were also introduced to Israeli schoolchildren, journalists and NGOs.
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The group also planted trees in memory of former LFI chair David Cairns, who died in May.
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Jennifer Gerber, LFI director, said: “The visit reaffirmed how important it is for Labour MPs to visit Israel, to gain an understanding of her political and security concerns, and support the Israeli people in their efforts for peace.”
Writerman,
In Libya if someone hurts/kills your family then you’re under a duty to take revenge. Many of the fighters joined the uprising because family members had been imprisoned, tortured or killed.
‘replace Robin Cook (before he was poisoned by John Scarlett)?’
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Gordon, is this a hunch or have you a source? I have a suspicion because during a 20 min discussion I had with Robin Cook PBUH I felt he was extremely frightened. He off-loaded much information, much I cannot divulge.
What’s happening with the Malyshevs? Have they already been deported?
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Got a reply an hour ago from my MP – who might actually be representing them too, if they can be considered Swansea constituents – as follows:
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Dear Mr. xxxxxx
Thank you for your e-mail, which has just come to my attention. I am not familiar with this case and you say that Mikel and Nina were due to be deported yesterday, so, unfortunately, there is nothing I can do to help at this late stage. If their situation has changed and they are still in the UK, please tell them to get in touch with my constituency office in Gorseinon. The telephone number is 01792-892100.
Yours sincerely
Martin Caton MP
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Are they still about? This MP actually appears to give a damn – a rare opportunity not to be wasted.
There’s a linguistic disease in British politics which looks ridiculous to spooks. It’s the refusal to see the obvious. The obvious either hits you at once or you miss it. The British people are conditioned to reject the obvious whenever political secrecy is involved. In fact, many or most political secrets are obvious. The major secret services get away with murder because they control the journalists who will report it. Readers are terrified of uncertainty. Uncertainty is above all a product of a language. So the obvious is stated but hedged around with linguistic uncertainty and the public back off. Having said that, I did what I usually do, I called Cook’s killers. It turned out that one was innocent, but the other was guilty. My questions were the same but the reactions were very different. Quite apart from that, Cook had an ongoing bust up with MI6 and Mossad that went back to his visit to Israel in 1998. He was the only politician in Britain worth killing. He knew that. That’s why he was frightened. All the other people are frightened. Britain has an established culture of political murder going back to the poisoning of John Smith and politicians know it. They also know that their career will be finished if they express their concerns. It extends much further than that. The party conferences are brainwashed pabulum. Cameron’s conference had him fretting about some ‘sexist’ word he’d used, while the Bank of England was saying we’re facing the biggest economic crisis in history. Politics in the UK is brain dead and it’s been made that way deliberately.
How many saw Clinton auditioning for one of the witches in Macbeth? “We came, we saw, he died” cackle cackle cackle. She thus completes the trio with Rice and Albright.This was followed later by that bombastic thug McCain threatening Putin’s Russia and China as well as Iran,of course, with more of the same,while regretting the fact that Obomba had n’t “led from the front” but why bother when one has such canine specimens as Scameron, Sarcrazy and Burlesqueclowni licking behind. The West is now revealed in all its psychopathology fulfilling Lloyd George’s dictum of the thirties that “We reserve the right to bomb the niggers” meaning all whose goods we covet.Hammond from Hell at once urging our buisness men to go get stuck in.This before the blood is dry on the streets.But we must hope Torturing Tony’s role in arming Libya and indeed Scameron’s is held up to public scrutiny but fear a large rug will be found,anyone recall the four year Scott enquiry into the arming of Saddam and how many heads rolled over that??Meanwhil Ki** the Bankers.
Perhaps TB (a fatal disease, once known as consumption) will be asked to incorporate Libya into his ‘Middle East Envoy’ role. Can’t you just picture it? That grin, that middlebrow voice? Perhaps he and Cherie will build another big house there to add to their portfolio.
As Suhayl says – “Perhaps TB (a fatal disease, once known as consumption) will be asked to incorporate Libya into his ‘Middle East Envoy’ role.” I thought he already had with his friendly relationship with Gadaffi, not to mention the friendly support that BP and MI6 were reported as giving Gadaffi only a few months ago. They say the tiger cannot change its stripes, but I’m sure that TB and the others can re-adjust their sails (or should it be sales) to the new wind if they let them.
Craig,
Have you ever heard about smn called Shirin Akiner. My friend from Tashkent has told me she is representing herself as an academic from SOAS and promoting Gulnara Karimova’s image. I thought at least SOAS would employ academics with honesty and real care for human rights. By the way, my friend is also insisting uzbek authorities will not be chasing Malyshevs in light of H Clinton’s visit to the country. I hope this is the case even after when she is gone.
I haven’t read all the comments – no disrespect intended. Just very briefly on the Gadaffi death coverage – yesterdays foto of his death head ‘n’ face was so grose and large that it took up almost the whole page – these cretins pose as ultra civilised humans. Andrew Gilligan what a crass editor. What an advertisement for what they really are.
Sadly, here in the US our citizens do not pay attention to the details of any of this. They don’t care that Qaddafi was executed after he was captured. Nor that they care that Bin Laden was probably shot in the back of the head. Very disturbing!
‘In Libya if someone hurts/kills your family then you’re under a duty to take revenge’
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Is that why there is a long queue of men waiting to view a body full of bullets, bloodied and bruised, lying on the floor of a refrigerated room? I saw that face masks were being handed out to them. How revolting and how grotesque.
US-Israeli spy Ilan Grapel, a MOSSAD agent, who was sent to monitor events during the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in February and subsequently arrested and detained on spying allegations, is being exchanged in a deal with Israel for the release of Egyptian prisoners including a number of children.
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Panetta had promised Netanyahu he would secure his release by agreeing to supply Egypt’s military rulers with financial and military aid, which was of course a lie. Panetta according to my sources was in Egypt to ensure military rule was retained until the popular uprising could be effectively infiltrated.
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YNet
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Sick bucket time. How the media treat the death of this tyrant.
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‘The Prince of Wales and the Foreign Secretary have paid tribute to Saudi Arabia’s heir to the throne, who has died at the age of 85.
Crown Prince Sultan bin Abd Al Aziz died abroad in the early hours after an illness, according to national TV.
He was the half brother of the Saudi king, the kingdom’s deputy prime minister and the minister of defence and aviation.
Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was sad to hear of the Crown Prince’s death: “He served the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for many years with great dignity and dedication.
“His contribution to the prosperity and development of the Kingdom will long be remembered.
“I would like to offer my sincere condolences to the Kingdom and its people at this sad time.”
The Prince of Wales was said to have sent a personal letter of condolence to the King of Saudi Arabia.’
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5j8jpbEcwklXHSceGbHVDRWKvtgiA?docId=N0217701319284515156A