Hillary Clinton & Saudi king joke about camels

• Posted on February 16, 2010 at 11:11 pm

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah met U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Riyadh yesterday. According to a New York Times report, the two watched TV while eating lunch at the king’s desert camp.

The New York Times also reported that Clinton jokingly told the king that Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal “thinks camels are ugly.” The king replied, “I think His Highness was not being fair to camels.”

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Saudi king welcomes Turkey’s PM

• Posted on January 23, 2010 at 10:54 pm

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz (right) met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) in Riyadh on January 19. (Photo: -/AFP/Getty Images)

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Saudi king meets Italian prime minister

• Posted on November 23, 2009 at 10:36 pm

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz (right) met with Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (left) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on November 21. (Photo: REUTERS/Livio Anticoli/Italian Prime Minister’s Press Office/Handout)

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Saudi king welcomes Sarkozy

• Posted on November 19, 2009 at 2:31 am

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah (right) met French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Janadriya residence near Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on November 17. (Photo by Philippe Wojazer/Pool/ABACAPRESS.COM. Photo via Newscom. Photo provided by PicApp)

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