Saudi FM Saud al-Faisal says King Abdullah is in excellent health

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said Thursday that Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is in "excellent" health and anxious to return home from convalescing in Morocco following surgery.

"He's in excellent health, he's undergoing therapy," the prince said in Morocco. "The doctors are suggesting a certain amount of therapy and he's doing twice as much as they tell him. ...he is his usual self, assured of what he can do and ready and looking forward to going back to work and going back home."

Earlier, a Saudi-based source told Reuters that King Abdullah is alive and rumors of his death are untrue. "The rumors aren't true," said the source, an adviser to a senior member of the Saudi ruling family.