A report on General Intelligence Presidency, Turki bin Faisal Al Saud and Grand Mosque seizure

Prince Turki in 2014
Saudi soldiers fighting their way into the Ka'aba underground beneath the Grand Mosque of Mecca, 1979.
King Faisal, father of Turki
Smoke rising from the Grand Mosque during the assault on the Marwa-Safa gallery, 1979.
Prince Turki at the 50th Munich Security Conference in 2014
Surviving insurgents in custody of Saudi authorities (c. 1979).
Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt meeting HRH Prince Turki Al Faisal, Chairman, King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in London, 15 March 2011.
Surviving insurgents in custody of Saudi authorities (c. 1979).
Prince Turki at MSC 2014
Prince Turki in 2010
Prince Turki speaking at the 2011 World Economic Forum
Prince Turki and Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu at the Munich Security Conference, 2010
Prince Turki leaves the University of South Florida after delivering a brief lecture on Saudi Arabian history.
Prince Turki with his brother Prince Saud in the early 1960s.

Turki bin Faisal Al Saud (تركي بن فيصل آل سعود; Türki bin Faysal Al Suud) (born 15 February 1945), known also as Turki Al Faisal, is a Saudi prince and former government official who served as the head of Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Presidency from 1979 to 2001.

- Turki bin Faisal Al Saud

The agency expanded its monitoring of internal threats after the 1979 capture of the Grand Mosque in Mecca.

- General Intelligence Presidency

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.

- Turki bin Faisal Al Saud

Then Turki Al Faisal served as the president of Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah until 2001.

- General Intelligence Presidency

Prince Sultan appointed Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, head of the Al Mukhabaraat Al 'Aammah (Saudi Intelligence), to take over the forward command post several hundred meters from the mosque, where Prince Turki would remain for the next several weeks.

- Grand Mosque seizure
Prince Turki in 2014

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