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In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Viewing The Arab
Salman, not yet thirty, was a bachelor, articulate and eloquent in his flowing white dishdasha, and as a member of the royal family, was presumably very rich.
He was licensed to pilot executive jets, his father was a provincial governor, his degree was in mass communications from the University of Denver, where, yes, his classmates had kidded him about living in a tent and riding a camel.
Unlike the political cartoons we in the West see of Arabs, Salman was refined and unassuming, with the build of an athlete and the good looks of a movie star.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF0902/Lamb/Lamb.html   (2203 words)

  
 STS-51-G - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
STS 51-G was the eighteenth flight of a Space Shuttle and the fifth flight of Discovery.
It is probably best remembered for having Sultan Salman Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia on board as a payload specialist.
The crew members were Daniel C. Brandenstein, commander; John O. Creighton, pilot; Shannon W. Lucid, Steven R. Nagel, and John M. Fabian, mission specialists; and Patrick Baudry, France, and Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud, Saudi Arabia, payload specialists.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/STS-51-G   (760 words)

  
 HRH Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud, Second Deputy Premier, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General
HRH Prince Sultan was born in Riyadh on the 5th of January, 1928 (13th of Rajab, 1346 H).
Prince Sultan was appointed Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General on 13/10/1962 (15/5/1382 H).
Prince Sultan is well known for his humanitarian and philanthropic contributions, establishing for this purpose "The Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud Philanthropic Society." It is run by a Board of Trustees chaired by Prince Sultan, with his sons and a number of citizens as members.
www.the-saudi.net /al-saud/sultan.htm   (303 words)

  
 Sultan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The title was one of indirect religious meaning, as the sultan was supposed to have both moral and spiritual authority as defined by the Koran.
Sultan Palace Hotel is an authentic arabic Hotel in the old city centre in Sanaa, the capital city of the Republic of Yemen.
The sultan was the sole regent and government of the empire, at least officially.
supersearching.com /k/sultan.html   (767 words)

  
 King Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz Al Saud
Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdul Rahman Ibn Faisal Al Saud was born in the city of Kuwait in 1902, the same year in which his father King Abdul Aziz recaptured the city of Riyadh from Al Rasheed.
Moving with other members of the Al Saud family from Kuwait to Riyadh, he later took part in both politics and war.
Saud's Remarkable Achievements Emulating his father King Abdul Aziz, he strove to protect the country and safeguard its independence and Islamic principles.
www.the-saudi.net /al-saud/saud.htm   (366 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Search Results - Ibn Saud
Ibn Saud, Abdul Aziz (1880?-1953), king of Saudi Arabia (1932-1953).
A grandson of Faisal, sultan of Najd in central Arabia, Ibn Saud was leader of...
Al-Saud, Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz, born in 1956, Saudi Arabian astronaut and a prince of the Saudi royal house.
ca.encarta.msn.com /Ibn_Saud.html   (124 words)

  
 622: The Hijra: The Prophet Muhammad moves from Mecca to Medina
Wahhabi leader Abd al-Aziz ibn Saud is the founder of Saudi Arabia and its first king.
Concerned with the continuing centralization of power under Sultan Abdul Hamit and convinced that the growing economic influence of foreign powers will end the Ottoman Empire, the predominantly upper-class Young Turk movement takes action.
The Grand National Assembly, led by Mustafa Kemal, hero of the War of Liberation, abolishes the office of the sultanate, thereby ending 631 years of rule by the Ottoman Empire.
www.preciousheart.net /Main_Archives/Middle_East_TL.htm   (11940 words)

  
 Ain-Al-Yaqeen - November 7, 2003 - Article 5
Prince Sultan, Second Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, has denounced what he called a smear campaign against Islam and the Kingdom and said it was an outpouring of jealousy of its resources and Islam.
Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz, the Second Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General chaired the ninth annual meeting of the Board of Directors of the Higher Commission for Tourism.
Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defence and Aviation and Inspector General has addressed his thanks to all members of the Saudi Fund for Development for their efforts which are reflected in the achievements of the Fund.
www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20031107/feat5en.htm   (2002 words)

  
 Ain-Al-Yaqeen - July 25, 2003 - Article 5
Prince Sultan was accompanied by princes, senior officers of the Armed Forces, senior civil officials, and a number of citizens and tourists.
Prince Sultan Ibn Abdul Aziz, Second Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Inspector General, patronized the ceremony of Abha Prize for 1423/1424 H on the banks of Al Sad lake in new Abha.
Prince Sultan was received at the venue by Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, Governor of Assir region and Chairman of the higher commission for the prize, Prince Bandar Ibn Khalid Al-Faisal and Prince Saud Ibn Khalid Al-Faisal.
www.ain-al-yaqeen.com /issues/20030725/feat5en.htm   (2080 words)

  
 al-Saud Propaganda
The law is so restrictive that SNAS, the DHL dealership in Saudi Arabia, owned by none other than Saud bin Naef, has installed large x-ray machines in their distribution centers specially to detect printed materials.
In fact, Salman bin Abdul Aziz, the Governor of Riyadh, a ruthless, unfair Sudeiri, owns the majority of that media and has taken on the responsibility of the propaganda machine in Saudi Arabia.
According to Abdul Bari Atwan, the editor of al- Quds, the most widely distributed newspaper published out of London not owned by Salman bin Abdul Aziz, 95% of the media in the Arab world is owned by al-Saud.
www.geocities.com /saudhouse_p/al-saud.htm   (1299 words)

  
 Global Connections . Timeline | PBS
One plan to eliminate oil spills focuses on building an area where tankers can safely discharge their ballast.
June 17, 1985: Sultan Salman al-Saud of Saudi Arabia is the first Arab in space.
Sultan Salman al-Saud flies aboard the space shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/timeline/text/tscience.html   (2198 words)

  
 Global Connections . Timeline | PBS
Conflicting claims to the potentially valuable land cause conflict, largely because there is no defined boundary between the two countries.
Sultan Qaboos is trying to diversify Oman's economy in part by reducing its dependence on oil and encouraging its private sector to be more competitive and efficient.
November 1996: The ruler of Oman, Sultan Qaboos, outlines a bill of rights based on Islamic law.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/timeline/text/time5.html   (9503 words)

  
 Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al-Saud: “I believe in tourism not as a goal but as tool for bringing cultures ...
Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abd Al-Aziz Al-Saud: “I believe in tourism not as a goal but as tool for bringing cultures together”
Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al-Saud, president of the Dialogue ‘Tourism, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development’ which will run through July 16, highlighted the positive role that tourism plays in cultural diversity and sustainable development.
Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al-Saud said that the Forum Dialogue has “a strategic importance because the environment, cultural diversity and tourism go hand in hand.”
www.barcelona2004.org /eng/actualidad/noticias/html/f046488.htm   (378 words)

  
 Al-Saud
Sultan Salman Abdel-aziz Al-Saud Saudi Payload Specialist Astronaut.
In 1989 and then again in 1992 he was elected to the position of Chairman of the Saudi Benevolent Association for Handicapped Children; where he also served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Prince Salman Center for Handicapped Research.
In 1991 he accepted an invitation from the Board of Directors of the Saudi Computer Society to become Honorary Chairman, and in 1993 due to his special interest in architecture he agreed to serve as Honorary President of the Al-Umran Saudi Association (a society of specialists in the fields of the built environment).
www.astronautix.com /astros/alsaud.htm   (523 words)

  
 U.S. Policy / Middle East
Numerous books have been written on the Israeli influence in U.S. politics, and others have been written on the big oil companies.
It's a good read, but it's also important to remember, as Ritter points out, that the policy of sanctions was ill-advised from the start -- innocent children and adults should not be punished because of crimes committed by their leadership.
House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties.
www.namebase.org /books84.html   (1242 words)

  
 NucNews - January 13, 2003
Dhiya Al Saadawi, who left Iraq in 1992 and owns Al Hikma Bookstore in Falls Church, said he and others eagerly anticipate even greater celebrations when Hussein is removed.
They are fighters for Ansar al Islam, a group of militants who have taken hold of a small corner of Kurdish-controlled Iraq and established harsh Islamic order over a wild, isolated land.
Ansar al Islam, whose name means Supporters of Islam, formed in 2001 when several splintered parties in the region, which had been sending envoys to meet with Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, merged into one and joined the international jihad.
nucnews.net /nucnews/2003nn/0301nn/030113nn.htm   (20601 words)

  
 Pricelist - STS Space Shuttle Flight covers, Colorano Silk Cachets /Joe Frasketi's Philatelic Space Covers
The seven crew members are headed by Daniel C. Brandestein and includes pilot John O. Creighton; mission specialists Shannon W.
Lucid, Steven R. Nagel and John M. Fabian; payload specialists Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al- Saud (Saudi Arabia) and Patrick Baudry (France).
Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud, payload specialist from Saudi Arabia, sent the ARABSAT communications satellite spinning flawlessly out of the space shuttle Discovery's cargo bay today.
spacecovers.com /pricelists/prclst_stsco1.htm   (6838 words)

  
 SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION SUMMARIES
The cargo included three commercial communications satellites, a deployable/retrievable spacecraft called Spartan l, six GAS experiment canisters, a tracking experiment for the Defense Department's Strategic Defense Initiative, a materials processing furnace and a series of biomedical experiments sponsored by France.
The seven-member STS 51-G crew included Daniel Brandenstein, commander; John Creighton, pilot; three mission specialists: Shannon Lucid, Steven Nagel and John Fabian; and two payload specialists Patrick Baudry of France and Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia.
The three communications satellites were successfully deployed and their booster stages placed them into their planned operating orbits.
www.globalsecurity.org /space/library/report/1988/stsover-missions.html   (8374 words)

  
 Space: Public or Private?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This time NASA made no mention of why this powerful member of Congress was on board, except to give him the odd title "payload specialist." In Nelson’s case, the accent was on NASA’s pay, not the load.
Shuttle mission, launched June 17, 1985, was Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia.
One could say his presence was reasonable, given that one of this mission’s assignments was to place into orbit Arabsat I-B, owned by the Arab Satellite Communications Organization.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3967   (2258 words)

  
 FrontPage magazine.com :: Red Planet by Lowell Ponte
As this column has discussed, Russia, by letting eager tourists buy tickets into space, has become a more capitalistic nation than the United States.
But NASA, with its politicized science, did provide free trips on your Space Shuttle for Senator Jake Garn (R.-Utah), Congressman Bill Nelson (D.-Fla), and Saudi Arabian Prince Sultan Salman Al-Saud.
President Bill Clinton, to reward Senator John Glenn (D.-Ohio) for his efforts to stymie a legislative investigation of Clinton, had NASA give Glenn a free ticket back to space, too.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1403   (1014 words)

  
 A Clash Of Cultures
Although more than 600 English words–including algebra, admiral (from amir al bahr, or prince of the sea), alcohol, assassin, cotton, magazine, traffic, tariff–have an Arabic derivation, Westerners usually have a frightful time mastering the language.
However disturbing it is to some traditionalists, the clash of cultures from East and West is slowly becoming a marriage of cultures in the Arab world, and young, educated Arabs are nudging their countries into the mainstream of the world community.
David Lamb, a reporter on leave from The Los Angeles Times, is chronicling the Arabs today.
www.aliciapatterson.org /APF0901/Lamb/Lamb.html   (2549 words)

  
 STS51G
S85-29789 image text Tour by Saudi prince Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud prior to mission
S85-33318 image text Official portrait of Payload Specialist Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud
STS51G-02-009 image text Payload specialist Sultan Salman Abdelazize Al-Saud floats over pilots chai
science.ksc.nasa.gov /mirrors/images/html/STS51G.htm   (905 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Political Diary Responses
You write that "the space shuttle that broke up today carried, for the first time, a Mideastern astronaut."
Sultan Ben Salman al-Saud of Saudi Arabia flew in the Space Shuttle.
Arabs from other Mideastern countries have flown with the Russians--I know of at least one Syrian.
www.opinionjournal.com /columnists/responses.html?article_id=110003014   (3860 words)

  
 Al-Saud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This page no longer updated from 31 October 2001.
Comments: Prince Sultan al-Saud was a member of the Saudi royal family and a pilot in the Saudi Air Force.
He was named as a payload specialist in 1985 for deployment of Arabsat on shuttle mission STS-51-G. Flight Log
www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/astros/alsaud.htm   (121 words)

  
 Great Space Quotes: Astronaut quotations on spaceflight, space exploration, the Moon and beyond.
To use a Southern euphemism, our space program has been snake-bit.
Al Gore, (then) US Senator, regards the unsuccessful launch of an unmanned rocket shortly after the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, 'Nightline' TV show, 5 May 1986.
We used to joke about canned men, putting people in a can and seeing how far you can send them and bring them back.
www.skygod.com /quotes/space.html   (10118 words)

  
 Manned Space Flights
Reactivation of Salyut 7; Savinykh stayed with Soyuz T-14 crew: Progress 24 resupplies the station.
Daniel Brandenstein, John Creighton, Shannon Lucid, John Fabian, Steven Nagel, Patrick Baudry, Sultan Salman Al-Saud
Salman Al-Saud first Arab in space; Baudry first French person on U.S. mission; 3 communications satellites.
www.braeunig.us /space/manned.htm   (5286 words)

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