Young Saudi prince dies of thrist (sic) in desert (That Makes Three)

Reuters | 7/29/02

[kattracks]

RIYADH, July 29 (Reuters) - A young Saudi prince died of thirst in the desert on Monday, the official media reported.

Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud al-Kabeer, 25, was travelling through the kingdom's Rimah area, where temperatures in some areas can rise above 45 degrees celsius (113 F) in the summer.

No other details were given. ((Gulf newsroom, +971 4 391 8301, fax +971 4 391 8335, dubai.newsroom@reuters.com))

© Reuters Limited.

[hollywood]

113 degrees F? Sounds like a cold front to me.

[Apollo]

Hmmmm.

[exnavy]

Starting to look like a pattern, maybe the Saudi's could use the help of the FBI in solving these problems! Or any other useless alphabet agency .... nothing to see here, move along ...

[WaterDragon]

I can't imagine someone raised in that desert managing to run out of water. Is someone picking off the little princes?

[kattracks]

Saudi Prince Ahmed, Publisher, Dies (Owner Of Kentucky Derby Winner War Emblem)

Saudi Prince Killed in Car Crash

[mystery-ak]

....another one down, how many more princes are there?

[Exit148]

I'd like to see a family tree and see where all these Princes stand in the line of power.

[Straight Vermonter]

Three Saudi princes have died? I must have missed the previous two. Anyone have any info?

[hole_n_one]

vs.

[Dog Gone]

His parents probably left him strapped into his carseat.

[RightWhale]

how many more princes are there?

Who knows. 500 maybe.

[kattracks]

See post #6

[Henchster]

113 degrees, 25 years old, and he died? What a bunch of p*ssies they're breeding. Hell, I'm 41, and I carry a golf bag up and down the hills for 4 hours in tempuratures that high, all summer long here in Woodland Hills CA.

[tomkat]

this is some really tragic news !

color me unsympathetic ...

[Shermy]

Jeddah, July 29, SPA -- Prince Fahd bin Turki bin Saud Alkabeer died today. He was 25 years old. He died of thirst during a journey in the desert of Ramah Province, south of Alomania Center.

Funeral prayers will be held tomorrow at Imam Turki bin Abdullah's Mosque in Riyadh.

[follow your bliss]

[Fred Mertz]

Don't you get it? He was offed.

Dying of thirst is a different twist from the heart attack (age 44) and the car wreck.

[kattracks]

That's the way Reuters published it.

[Sir Gawain]

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[Eaker]

It is America's fault that this is happening!!!

Why have we not installed water stations in the desert for these fools like we are supposed to do for the Mexicans!!!!

I feel JUST terrible!!

I have tears on my keyboard!!

[kattracks]

A little housecleaning maybe?

[Bahbah]

About a kagillion. This will take a long time.

[mgstarr]

Truly for some, something is written.

[Alouette]

They found him strapped in the limo with all the windows rolled up. The chauffeur just forgot to take him out of the car.

Yes, he's 25 years, not 25 months, but ROYALTY don't do anything for themselves.

[Willie Green]

IS "thrist" some kind of disease? Probably venereal disease caught from sodomy of camels.

If he was Mexican, the government would give him condoms to help him cross the desert.

[APBaer]

"see where all these Princes stand in the line of power"

Now? Unplugged.

[Ax]

I remember getting off an Air Force C-12 in Riyadh in August. The AC told me it was 140 on the tarmac. My first breath was like sucking flames into my lungs. I'm from Detroit. That prince, a son of the desert, should've taken some very basic precautions. The plot thickens.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

no sympathy here he's a F##KING PRINCE what he cant afford a canteen

[dawn53]

Tin Foil Hat Alert: Maybe they were actually biochemists as well as Princes, LOL.

[small voice in the wilderness]

was travelling through the kingdom's Rimah area

travelling in what?? a car, a camel, a bicycle??

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thousands.

[SCHROLL]

Who cares where his spot in line was. What I want to know is was hee Pro Western or one of bin Laden's backers? Answering that one will get you to the bottom of what's going on.

[bandleader]

I wonder if Petroleum can be made into a refreshing beverage??Perhaps it would be an excellent idea for them(rag-heads)to research!!!!!!!!

[VaBthang4]

My Kingdom for an Evian!

[justshe]

At the risk of being flamed, he didn't choose his parents. May he and his family find comfort.

[kattracks]

Bingo!

[Conagher]

Can we nominate him for an Al-Darwini Award?

[lizma]

ROFL!!!

It appears the Saudi's are try to fix a "problem" whatever that might be.

Terrorist funding maybe?? That's another ROFL.

[VaBthang4]

He's young....I would think that most likely puts him in the too dumb to realize radical islam is a joke category.

Probably one of Bin Laden's boys.

Something really is going down in Saudi Arabia.

Eitherway...no rich Prince dies of thirst in the desert.....just doesnt happen.

[crypt2k]

These guys have bodyguards, satellite phones and helicopters. This story reeks.

[Thumper1960]

"Died of thirst"???

To paraphrase Marie Antionette--"Let them drink p*$$."

Or, was the camel dehydrated, too?

[Woodkirk]

I wonder if they dusted the area for finger prince or
checked around the body for foot prince --

[TheLooseThread]

Only 1,372,278 princes left....

[Thinkin' Gal]

Prince Fahd bin Turki

Fowl play, or Darwin award?

[aristeides]

See the "bin Turki" in his name. It was also in the name of the prince who died in the car crash. I wonder if they were both related to the Prince Turki that was fired from the job of head of Saudi intelligence in August 2001.

[EternalVigilance]

Given a choice between a country with plenty of oil, and one with plenty of water, I'll take the well-watered one any day. There are lots of ways to live without oil; but no water means death.

God bless America!

Having said that, the story sounds mighty fishy...there is much going on in that part of the world that we're not hearing about.

EV

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Not all of them. He could be your every-day college grad in a regualr car making his way across the desert and died.

[solzhenitsyn]

The Saudi royal family has approximately 6,000 officially recognized members. Not certain, but I believe all 6,000 of them are eligible for diplomatic immunity when traveling in the United States. Read something to that effect in the Jounal about a decade ago.

The family has grown very rapidly due to certain male members having very many children by many wives. Ibn Saud, for instance, had 44 sons by 17 wives.