Abd Rahman Rashed, editor of the Saudi-owned, London-based Arabic daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, expressed a different point of view.
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London's al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper reported that Saud Hamud Ubayd al-Qutayni al-Utaybi, who was killed in al-Rass on 5 April 2005, has been Muqrin's designated successor rather than Awfi.
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Mr Hashemi had told the Pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat during his stay in Qatar that he would go next to Saudi Arabia on his tour of "friendly states".