AFP: Saudi minister says King in 'excellent health': "Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah
is in 'excellent' health and anxious to return home from convalescing in Morocco following surgery, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said Thursday.'He's in excellent health, he's undergoing therapy,' the prince said in Morocco.
'The doctors are suggesting a certain amount of therapy and he's doing twice as much as they tell him. ...he is his usual self, assured of what he can do and ready and looking forward to going back to work and going back home.'
Earlier the Saudi embassy in Morocco, where King Abdullah arrived on January 22 after surgery in the United States, strongly denied rumours that the octogenarian monarch had died.
'I can assure that the health of King Abdullah is excellent and gives no cause for any concern,' a senior embassy official told AFP.
The website www.islamtimes.org said the king had died of a heart attack the previous day after a heated telephone debate with US President Barack Obama on the situation in Egypt."
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