Fahd of Saudi Arabia

Fahd bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud ({{lang-ar|فهد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود}}, b.1923 – August 1, 2005) was the king and prime minister of Saudi Arabia and leader of the House of Saud. One of thirty-seven sons of Saudi founder Ibn Saud, and the fourth of his five sons who have ruled the Kingdom (Saud, Faisal, Khalid, Fahd, and Abdullah), Fahd ascended to the throne on the death of his half-brother, King Khalid, on June 13, 1982.

External links

• King Fahd Tribute Page
• Twenty Years of King Fahd from ArabNews.
• Saudi King Fahd is laid to rest (BBC News, 2 August 2005)
• Obituaries
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/255097.stm (BBC News, 1 August 2005)
• http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1717054,00.html (The Times, 2 August 2005)
• International editorial reaction to Fahd's death