King Fahd's Levaya

Here's the list of dignitaries who attended the ceremonies for the late King Fahd this week:

AFGHANISTAN: President Hamid Karzai.

ALGERIA: President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

ARAB LEAGUE: Secretary-General Amr Moussa.

AUSTRALIA: Governor General Michael Jeffery.

AUSTRIA: Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach.

BAHRAIN: The king, Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.

BELGIUM: Crown Prince Philippe, Agriculture Minister Sabine Laruelle.

BOSNIA: President Ivo Miro Jovic, Prime Minister Adnan Terzic.

BRITAIN: Prince Charles

BRUNEI: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah.

COMOROS: President Col. Othman Ghazali.

CZECH REPUBLIC: President Vaclav Klaus.

DENMARK: Deputy Prime Minister Bendt Bendtsen and Prince Joachim, Queen Margrethe's second son.

DJIBOUTI: President Ismail Umar Guelleh.

EGYPT: President Hosni Mubarak, Intelligence Chief Omar Sulieman.

FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac

GERMANY: President Horst Koehler.

IRAQ: President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

IRAN: First Vice President Mohammed Reza Aref.

ITALY: President of Italian Senate, Marcello Pera.

JAPAN: Crown Prince Naruhito and former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.

JORDAN: King Abdullah II, Prime Minister Adnan Badran.

KUWAIT: Prime Minister, Sheik Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah.

LEBANON: President Emile Lahoud.

LIBYA: Ahmed Qathaf el Dam, cousin of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

MALI: President Amadou Toumani Toure.

MOROCCO: Crown Prince Moulay Rachid.

NIGERIA: President Olusegun Obasanjo.

NORWAY: Crown Prince Haakon, Oil Minister Thorhild Widwey.

PAKISTAN: Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

PORTUGAL: Portugal's ambassador in Riyadh, Henrique Borges.

QATAR: Emir Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

RUSSIA: Sergei Mironov, speaker of the upper house of parliament.

SENEGAL: President Abdoulaye Wade.

SUDAN: Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, minister of foreign affairs, Mustafa Osman Ismail.

SWEDEN: King Carl XVI Gustaf, Deputy Prime Minister Bo Ringholm.

SYRIA: President Bashar Assad.

TUNISIA: President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

TURKEY: Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: President Sheik Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

UNITED STATES: Vice President Dick Cheney.

YEMEN: President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

That's quite a respectable crowd.

I guess no one should be surprised that Israel wasn't there or that the US was. I did enjoy seeing that even though he was there, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas wasn't listed .