Technocrats have taken several important positions, with diplomat Othman Jerandi named as foreign minister, Lotfi Ben Jeddou as interior minister and Rachid Sabbagh as defence minister.

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These include his half-brothers: Nayef, the interior minister, Sultan, the crown prince and defence minister, and Salman, the governor of Riyadh.

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In this the interior minister was a judge, the defence minister a general, and so on.

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The cell's plans, say highly placed sources, included the assassination of two of the kingdom's rulers, Prince Sultan, the defence minister, and Prince Nayef, the interior minister, both of them full brothers of King Fahd.

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Other high offices of state are taken by Ahmed Abul Gheit, the new foreign minister, and Habib al-Adli and Muhammad Hussein Tantawi, who stay on as interior and defence ministers.

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