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Semoga Tanah Kubur bisa menerima jasadmu ... Jimmy Okberto ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RM Danardono HADINOTO Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 8:58 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ppiindia] Re: Kematian Raja Fahd Wauwww, ternyata raja Fahd malah mendekatkan kerajaan Saudi ke USA, kalau demikian si mbak Salma ini nggaaaaawuuuurrr besar Salam sejarah Danardono --- In [email protected] <mailto:ppiindia%40yahoogroups.com> , "mediacare" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Message #74628 > > RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, who moved his > country closer to the United States > but ruled in name only since suffering a stroke in 1995, died early > Monday, the Saudi royal court said. He was 84. > > > Crown Prince Abdullah, the king's half brother and Saudi Arabia's de > factor ruler, > was appointed the country's new monarch. > > "With all sorrow and sadness, the royal court in the name of his > highness > Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz and all members of the family > announces > the death of the custodian of the two holy mosques, King Fahd bin > Abdul Aziz, > " according to a statement read on state-run Saudi TV by the > country's information minister. > > Fahd died at approximately 2:30 EDT, a senior Saudi official in > Washington told The Associated Press. > President Bush was alerted within minutes of Fahd's death, > the official said on condition of anonymity. > > Saudi TV, which said the king was 84 years of age, broke with regular > broadcasting to announce > Fahd's death. Quranic verse recitals followed the announcement by the > minister, > Iyad bin Amin Madani, whose voice wavered with emotion as he read the > statement. > > Madani said only that the king died of an illness. > > Fahd died at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in the Saudi > capital, > Riyadh, where he was admitted on May 27 for unspecified medical > tests, > an official at the hospital told The Associated Press on condition of > anonymity because news of the monarch's death had not been officially > announced at the time. > > At the time of his widely publicized hospitalization that caused > concern home and abroad, > officials said he was suffering from pneumonia and a high fever. > > During his rule, the portly, goateed Fahd, who rose to the throne in > 1982, > inadvertently helped fuel the rise of Islamic extremism by making > multiple > concessions to hard-liners, hoping to boost his Islamic credentials. > But then he also brought the kingdom closer to the United States and > agreed > to a step that enraged many conservatives: the basing of U.S. troops > on Saudi > soil after the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. > > In his last years, Fahd was more of a figurehead than the actual > ruler - > so he was sidelined as the close relationship he nurtured with the > United States > deteriorated after the Sept. 11 attacks. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers > were Saudis, > and many in the U.S. administration blamed kingdom's strict Wahabi > school of Islam > for fueling terrorism. > > King Fahd's debilitating stroke in 1995 confined him mainly to a > figurehead role in the kingdom. > Crown Prince Abdullah has been Saudi Arabia's de facto leader since > then and has led the country's > battle against Islamic extremism and terrorism. > > Abdullah oversaw the crackdown on Islamic militants after followers > of Saudi-born > Osama bin Laden launched a wave of attacks, beginning with the May > 2003 bombings of Western > residential compounds in Riyadh. Abdullah also pushed a campaign > against extremist teaching > and preaching and introduced the kingdom's first elections ever - > municipal polls held in early 2005. > > And Abdullah - who before coming to power had not been happy with > Saudi Arabia's close alliance with > and military dependence on the United States and Washington's > perceived bias toward > Israel - rebuilt the kingdom's ties with the U.S. He visited > President Bush twice at > Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, most recently in April 2005. > > Visitors who saw King Fahd after his 1995 stroke reported he was > barely aware of what > was going on around him and could not recognize those who shook hands > with him. > Foreign dignitaries usually were allowed brief meetings with him, > their visits > lasting only as long as it took to film TV footage for the state-run > stations. He was usually > accompanied by close family members to avoid any potential > embarrassment. > > On newscasts, the king was shown seated as he extended his hand to > visitors or sipped coffee. > Occasionally, policy statements, comments or speeches were issued in > his name, and he was shown > chairing ministerial meetings when Abdullah was out of town. > > Fahd, born in Riyadh in 1923, was proclaimed the fifth king of Saudi > Arabia on June 13, 1982, > three years after two events that would fuel the rise of Islamic > extremism in Saudi Arabia. > > In 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini founded the Islamic Republic in > Shiite Iran and, > in the same year, radical Muslims briefly took over the holy mosque > in Mecca, proclaiming > the royal family not Islamic enough to rule. > > Those developments, coupled with the king's reputation as a former > gambler and womanizer, > made the liberal-leaning Fahd move toward appeasing the country's > powerful religious establishment, > including the morals police who enforce the strict social codes that > oblige women to veil and ban men > nd women from mingling. > > Saudi Arabia did not want Shiite Iran to be seen as more Islamic than > the Sunni kingdom, > birthplace of Islam. So Fahd took the title "custodian of the two > holy mosques" - > referring to Islam's holiest shrines at Mecca and Medina - and he > poured millions of dollars > into the religious establishment and into enlarging fundamentalist > universities. > > In the 1980s, Riyadh, Washington and Islamabad mobilized Islam to > fight Soviet occupiers of > Afghanistan. Millions of Saudi riyals were donated to that effort and > thousands of Saudis joined the > jihad, including bin Laden, in a recruitment drive encouraged by the > government. The king's official > biography says Fahd was "an ardent supporter" of the Afghan > mujahideen. > > But after the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, Fahd, like > U.S. and Pakistani officials, > gave little attention to the mujahideen, who turned that country into > a training ground for their attacks, > including the 9/11 suicide hijackings. > > Earlier in his rule, Fahd was credited with turning Saudi Arabia into > one of the Middle East's > most modern states despite tribal traditions and Islamic > fundamentalists' fears that modernization > would dilute Muslims' faith. > > > mediacare > http://www.mediacare.biz <http://www.mediacare.biz> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
