Saudi King’s Health Scare Throws Crown Prince Into Spotlight
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Saudi Crown Prince Salman Bin Abdulaziz is no stranger to confronting a crisis.
Following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he became pivotal in the hunt for al-Qaeda militants in the kingdom, said Robert Jordan, who served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia at the time. As King Abdullah battles pneumonia in a Riyadh hospital, Prince Salman is the man next in line to rule the world’s largest oil exporter as sectarian, political and economic turmoil roils the Middle East.