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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (39873)	8/26/2002 12:42:25 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

I keep wondering just how much "Turki" had to to do with 9-11 and so many other things in this "mess".... Message 17849287 >>>>>>>>>>>>>Former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence Georgetown University Alumnus Special Address Transcription by Paul Dyer Sunday, February 3, 2002 In the name of God, the most compassionate, the most merciful. I am very pleased to be here today. I will start my talk by thanking the person who is responsible for that, my good friend Bob Andrews. In 1993, at the beginning of the year if I remember correctly, and after not having heard from him for more than 25 years, I am sitting at home in Jeddah and the phone rings and somebody says, “Hi Turki. This is Bob.” (laughter)<<<<<<<<<<<<<< “My name is Turki al-Faisal.” 888888888888888888888 Message 16405300 Support for Bin Laden is strong in Saudi Arabia. He was a close friend of the Saudi boss of Intelligence, Prince Turki bin Faisal al Saud, who was dismissed last month after his failure to curb attacks on US personnel in Riyadh. The real reason is probably his refusal to take sides in the fierce faction fight to determine the succession after the death of the paralysed King Fahd. Both sides are aware that too close an alignment with the United States could be explosive. That is why till now the Saudi regime despite its support for the US is not 'allowing its bases to be used'. 8888888888888888888 Message 17916559 A further meeting in the Afghan city of Kandahar in July 1998 led to the deal between Saudi Arabia and the Taliban. According to the documents, those present included Prince Turki al-Faisal al-Saud, then chief of the Istakhbarat, Taliban leaders, senior officers from Pakistan's secret service and bin- Laden. Turki was said to have known bin-Laden well through family connections and also because he had hand-picked bin-Laden in the early 1980s to organize Arab volunteers who were fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan.