Turki Al-Faisal
Saudi royal and government official (born 1945)
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.
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