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Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (left)
escorts Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz
(right), the ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia to the U.S, through an honor cordon and
into the Pentagon for a meeting on Feb. 5, 2001.
DoD photo by R. D. Ward. (Released)
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- Prince Bandar bin Sultan, ambassador to
the United States.
- Son of
Prince Sultan Bin Saud Defense Minister
and a Sudeiri by a Sudanese mother.
- Father
was Prince Sultan a Sudeiri.
- Bandar is the son of Prince Sultan, the
Saudi defense minister and Abdullah's
half-brother. Bandar's mother was a
servant, and Sultan did not recognize him
as a legitimate son until he was a
teenager. After training as a pilot,
Bandar became the Saudi Air Force's
one-man acrobatic team -- its version of
the Blue Angels. He was then assigned to
Washington as a military attaché,
lobbying Congress to approve the sale of
F-5 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia and
learning about U.S. politics. He was just
34 when King Fahd, his uncle and mentor,
named him ambassador to the United States
in 1983. http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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