Mystate.com
February 10, 2011

A source is laying to rest a rumor that the king of Saudi Arabia is dead.

An adviser to a senior member of the ruling family says King Abdullah bin Abdul-Aziz is alive.

Abdullah has been on the mend in Morocco since January after he had surgery in the U.S. for a blood clot that complicated a slipped disc.

The Saudi government has not issued an official statement in response to the rumor.

It generally doesn’t respond to speculation.