{"id":3802,"date":"2011-11-05T21:26:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T04:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2011-11-05T21:26:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T04:26:34","slug":"saudi-arabia-names-new-defense-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3802","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia Names New Defense Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saudi Arabia Names New Defense Minister<\/strong><br \/>\nAGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE -5 Nov 2011 13:22<\/p>\n<p>RIYADH &#8211; King Abdullah on Nov. 5 named his half-brother Prince Salman, who is governor of Riyadh, as Saudi Arabia&#8217;s defense minister to succeed the late Crown Prince Sultan, state television Al-Ekhbariya said.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz was appointed Riyadh&#8217;s governor in Prince Salman&#8217;s place, the report said, citing a series of royal decrees, under which Prince Khaled bin Sultan, the late crown prince&#8217;s son, was named deputy defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>King Abdullah late last month named Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz as crown prince succeeding his brother Sultan, who died in a U.S. hospital on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n<p>Salman, who was born in 1935 and served as Riyadh&#8217;s governor since 1955, and Nayef are full brothers. He was considered close to Sultan, who he accompanied on his trips abroad for medical treatment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/story.php?i=8156943&#038;&#038;s=TOP\">&#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D3802&amp;text=Saudi+Arabia+Names+New+Defense+Minister&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia Names New Defense Minister AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE -5 Nov 2011 13:22 RIYADH &#8211; King Abdullah on Nov. 5 named his half-brother Prince Salman, who is governor of Riyadh, as Saudi Arabia&#8217;s defense minister to succeed the late Crown Prince Sultan, state television Al-Ekhbariya said. Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz was appointed Riyadh&#8217;s governor in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3802#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2027],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}