Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)  Ethiopia: An Awkward Moment for
Saudi   It ought to have been an awkward moment for Saudi
Arabia's Minister of Finance, Ibrahim Al-Assaf, mid last week,
when he met Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. Only a day
before, headlines spread across the world's media, after Khalid
Bin Sultan, Saudi's deputy defence minister, made remarks,
directed atEthiopia, in a rather hostile tone.  In Cairo to
attend the Arab Water Council meeting, the son of a former Saudi
Defence Minister and hopeful heir to that role, Khalid warned
that Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam had the power to drain
Khartoum, and the potential to make a detrimental impact even as
far north as the Aswan Dam. He claimed the project to build a
dam "12Km" from the border withSudanhad its roots in a
"political plot", rather than for the purpose of offering
economic benefit toEthiopia.  A man known in his native land as
"a father ofSaudi Arabia's Missile", for his roles in helping
his country acquire the weapon fromChina, Kha