No outsider has seen Saudi King Abdullah, 87, since Dec. 3 when he underwent a second operation, described as "surgery to stabilize several vertebrae on the spinal cord" at the Presbyterian Hospital, New York. His relatives and the royal retinue have taken over a whole hospital wing and the entire Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, but maintained an unbroken silence for 18 days about the king's medical condition. Tehran is already looking ahead to the post-Abdullah era.
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Sixteen hours after she was reported missing, the body of the American woman Christine Logan was discovered early Sunday, Dec. 19, between Mattan and Beit Shemesh southwest of Jerusalem, bound and bearing marks of extreme violence. Police have cordoned off the area and imposed a blackout on the investigation. Saturday afternoon an Israeli tourist guide, Kaye Susan Wilson, reported they had both been attacked by two Arabs, presumed Palestinians, deep inside the Green line near Mattan. The search now switches to the perpetrators.
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