King Abdullah is 87, and his successor, Crown Prince Sultan, is only one year younger.
Prince Bandar is the son of the Saudi defence minister, Prince Sultan.
Prince Sultan's death may make this last point particularly salient.
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Owned by Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, the Saudi Defence Minister and son of the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, the Al Salamah is not a yacht in the true sense of the word.
The Saudis approved Pentagon use of the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC), a multibillion-dollar U.S.-built facility at the Prince Sultan base, to direct the air war against the Taliban but did not offer to allow American bombers to fly combat missions from Saudi bases.
Removal of the US Air Expeditionary Wing from Prince Sultan Air Base, for example, should help improve our relations with the Saudis, and relocating US forces south and out of the densely-populated Seoul area in Korea will help remedy various problems with the Korean public while serving other important military purposes as well.
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In addition to being a daughter of the former Saudi king, Princess Haifa happens to be the wife of the long-serving Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
They are often accused of working for Saad Hariri, Lebanon's former prime minister, once again an arch-enemy of Mr Assad, or for Prince Bandar bin Sultan, a Saudi who heads his country's national security council.
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Now, specifically, the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, had said that Saudi intelligence authorities had received also credible threats that another big attack was in the works, another big terrorist attack somewhere in Saudi Arabia or perhaps somewhere in the United States.
Saudi Prince Turki bin Abdul Aziz, the Sultan and Queen of Brunei, Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Taylor, even soccer star David Beckham and wife, Victoria, all count themselves among Graff's longtime clients.
But now a frail King Fahd has handed over day-to-day control to Crown Prince Abdullah, who has never been close to Sultan or Bandar.
On March 5th, a notice which appeared at Brunei's High Court announced that the sultan was suing his youngest brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah, and 71 others for the misuse of public money.
KPMG's Chinese walls were not sufficiently strong to enable it to take on a case for the Brunei Investment Authority, having previously been employed as a forensic accountant by Prince Jefri, a former chairman of the authority, and the sultan's younger brother.
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