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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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