King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia obituary | World news | The Guardian
►http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/king-abdullah-of-saudi-arabia
Par Madawi al-Rasheed
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, who has died aged 90, promised much but accomplished little. (...)
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Abdullah will be remembered as someone who survived the wave of change, propped up by “black gold”, in his own kingdom by distributing largesse and repression and helped to reverse the prospect of democracy in the Arab world.