"The Wolf of The Desert"
Posted: January 23rd, 2008, 7:53 pm




Faith, Freedom and Bling in the Middle East
In Abu Dhabi, Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan gave the president — dubbed “the Wolf of the Desert” by a Kuwaiti poet — a gigantic necklace made of gold, diamonds, rubies and emeralds, so gaudy and cumbersome that even the Secret Service agent carrying it seemed nonplussed. Here in Saudi Arabia, the king draped W. with an emerald-and-ruby necklace that could have come from Ali Baba’s cave.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/16/opini ... nted=print