The president's late father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan paid a state visit to the UK in 1989.
Elizabeth Glazer, the deputy secretary of public safety for the state of New York, said all state agencies had been briefed on bin Laden's death and the possible ramifications.
Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, head of state in Qatar, launched Al Jazeera Arabic in 1996 by hiring a group of staffers from BBC's defunct Arabic service who had been kicked out of Saudi Arabia for airing an interview with Saudi dissidents.
Saudi Crown Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz greeted the Egyptian president at the airport, state-run media reports said.
Owned by the Gulf state's former prime minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Thani, the 580-acre estate is home to about 60 champion horses -- either in training for their next million-dollar competition or being used to breed a new generation of winners.
Neither Istithmar nor the city-state's profitable port operator DP World, which Bin Sulayem also chairs, are paying for the project, he said.
MSN: Queen Elizabeth 2 now planned as floating hotel in Dubai
Dubai's energetic, tax-hating ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is pushing hard to make the state a regional high-tech center as well, one reason he looked favorably upon the founding five years ago of The American University in Dubai (where yours truly gave the spring commencement address).
Whereas the latter is a state owned vessel, however (it belongs to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the Crown Prince of Dubai), the Al Salamah is in private hands, and although she is smaller -- a mere 140 meters (457ft) long and 23.5 meters (77ft) wide -- she remains the largest, and most luxuriously appointed non-state vessel currently cruising the high seas.
The second main reason for Qatar's political stability is that the country's nationals enjoy a range of generous state handouts, which have swelled under the rule of the current emir, Emir Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, who overthrew his father in 1995.
"The state of Israel shares the joy of the American people on this historic day of the elimination of Osama bin Laden, " said a statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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