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Turki bin Faisal Al Saud (Arabic: تركي بن فيصل آل سعود, romanized: Turkī ibn Fayṣal Āl Su'ūd; born 15 February 1945), commonly known as Turki Al-Faisal, is a Saudi prince and former government official who served as head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency from 1979 to 2001.
He is a grandson of Saudi Arabia's founder King Abdulaziz and son of King Faisal. He is chairman of the King Faisal Foundation's Center for Research and Islamic Studies.
From 1979 to 2001, Prince Turki was director general of Al Mukhabarat Al 'Ammah, Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, resigning from the position on 1 September 2001, ten days before the September 11 attacks in which 15 Saudi nationals hijacked commercial American airliners.
Prince Turki subsequently served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's and the United States.
Prince Turki was born on 15 February 1945 in Mecca. He is the seventh child and youngest son of King Faisal and Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan. His mother was born to a Turkish mother and an Arab father. He is a full-brother of Sara bint Faisal, Mohammed bin Faisal, Latifa bint Faisal, Saud bin Faisal, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal, Bandar bin Faisal, Luluwah bint Faisal and Haifa bint Faisal. In May 1978, Time magazine reported that Prince Turki was the favorite son of Princess Iffat.
Turki bin Faisal received his primary and some secondary education at a school in Taif which was built by his parents. When he was fourteen, his father sent him to Lawrenceville, New Jersey to complete his secondary education at the Lawrenceville School from which he graduated in 1963. He graduated in the class of 1968 (alongside future U.S. President Bill Clinton) of Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Turki also did further studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and the University of London where he took courses in Islamic law and jurisprudence.
After returning to the Kingdom, Turki was appointed an adviser in the Royal Court in 1973.
Prince Turki began his political career as deputy to his uncle, Kamal Adham, and then, his successor as the head of Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah (General Intelligence Directorate), a position he held for 23 years—from 1979 until just 10 days before the September 11 attacks in 2001. He took part in organizing a military operation to remove the hostage-taking terrorists from Masjid al-Haram (the Sacred Mosque) in Mecca during the Grand Mosque Seizure in November 1979.
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Turki Al-Faisal
Turki bin Faisal Al Saud (Arabic: تركي بن فيصل آل سعود, romanized: Turkī ibn Fayṣal Āl Su'ūd; born 15 February 1945), commonly known as Turki Al-Faisal, is a Saudi prince and former government official who served as head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency from 1979 to 2001.
He is a grandson of Saudi Arabia's founder King Abdulaziz and son of King Faisal. He is chairman of the King Faisal Foundation's Center for Research and Islamic Studies.
From 1979 to 2001, Prince Turki was director general of Al Mukhabarat Al 'Ammah, Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, resigning from the position on 1 September 2001, ten days before the September 11 attacks in which 15 Saudi nationals hijacked commercial American airliners.
Prince Turki subsequently served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's and the United States.
Prince Turki was born on 15 February 1945 in Mecca. He is the seventh child and youngest son of King Faisal and Iffat bint Mohammad Al Thunayan. His mother was born to a Turkish mother and an Arab father. He is a full-brother of Sara bint Faisal, Mohammed bin Faisal, Latifa bint Faisal, Saud bin Faisal, Abdul Rahman bin Faisal, Bandar bin Faisal, Luluwah bint Faisal and Haifa bint Faisal. In May 1978, Time magazine reported that Prince Turki was the favorite son of Princess Iffat.
Turki bin Faisal received his primary and some secondary education at a school in Taif which was built by his parents. When he was fourteen, his father sent him to Lawrenceville, New Jersey to complete his secondary education at the Lawrenceville School from which he graduated in 1963. He graduated in the class of 1968 (alongside future U.S. President Bill Clinton) of Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Turki also did further studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and the University of London where he took courses in Islamic law and jurisprudence.
After returning to the Kingdom, Turki was appointed an adviser in the Royal Court in 1973.
Prince Turki began his political career as deputy to his uncle, Kamal Adham, and then, his successor as the head of Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah (General Intelligence Directorate), a position he held for 23 years—from 1979 until just 10 days before the September 11 attacks in 2001. He took part in organizing a military operation to remove the hostage-taking terrorists from Masjid al-Haram (the Sacred Mosque) in Mecca during the Grand Mosque Seizure in November 1979.
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