Characteristics
He was regarded as a workaholic with a reputation as "the epitome of corruption". His lavish spending was legendary: he doled out money at banquets in keeping with tribal custom. A conservative,it was expected that he would have put a brake on Abdullah's timid reforms, if he had become king, he was considered to be pro-American, his son, Prince Bandar, being a former US envoy.
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