Former head of Saudi intelligence agency talks with bin Laden

Former head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, who once met with Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the terrorist attacks in the United States, responded to an interview with NHK, and bin Laden became the prestige of the country due to the meeting with himself. He revealed that he believed he had recruited 15 Saudis as perpetrators of the case in an attempt to hurt him.

In the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Osama bin Laden, who heads the international terrorist organization Al Qaeda, and 15 of the 19 perpetrators were from Saudi Arabia.

Twenty years before the incident, Prince Turki, who was the head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency until just before the incident, responded to an independent interview with NHK in western Jeddah.

In a meeting with Bin Laden in 1989, Prince Turki said, "I said I wanted to fight the communist regime in South Yemen. To that end, I could send my fighters from Afghanistan. ", And revealed that he was offered to dispatch a combatant.

Prince Turki rejected the proposal, but when Iraq invaded Kuwait the following year, bin Laden also suggested to the Saudi Arabian Defense Minister that he would send his combatants to Kuwait and rejected it. It means that it was done.

Bin Laden is known to have hated the United States and Saudi Arabia because the Saudi Arabian government accepted the presence of U.S. forces, but Prince Turki said, "From these two talks, bin Laden has been He strengthened his opposition to Saudi Arabia, and chose those 15 people. Our country must bear the stigma forever, "said Bin Laden, who undermined his prestige because of his talks. He revealed that he believed he had recruited 15 Saudis as the perpetrators of the case.

What is Osama bin Laden?

Osama bin Laden is the leader of the international terrorist organization Al Qaeda from Saudi Arabia and the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks in the United States in 2001.

Bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s to a wealthy family who runs construction companies and has deep ties to the royal family.

When the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, he traveled to Afghanistan with the intention of protecting the local Muslims from communism.

We supported the lives of combatants who traveled from Arab countries to Afghanistan with abundant financial resources and gained support.

Al Qaeda was formed in 1988 based on the personal connections that were built through these activities.

It is said that the Saudi Arabian government accepted the presence of US troops in response to the invasion of neighboring Kuwait by the then Iraqi administration of Hussein in 1990, which heightened anti-American sentiment.

In 1994, he was deprived of his nationality by the Saudi government, which threatened bin Laden's actions.

Bin Laden has clarified his strong stance toward the United States and Israel and has called on Muslims around the world to take action.

He was allegedly involved in US-targeted incidents, including the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 2000 suicide bombing of US destroyers in Yemen.

In the 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the US government determined that it was the mastermind of the case and embarked on detention in Afghanistan, which was thought to be a hiding place.

Although the whereabouts were unknown for a long time, in 2011, a special unit of the US Army attacked and killed him while hiding in Pakistan.

Prince Turki has been the head of intelligence agencies for over 20 years

Prince Turki (76) of Saudi Arabia is a leading royal family who served as the head of Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency for more than 20 years until just before the terrorist attacks on the United States.

Prince Turki is the son of Faisal, the third king, and has been the director of the Saudi Arabian intelligence agency "Comprehensive Intelligence" since 1977 after being educated in the United States.

Since Osama bin Laden from Saudi Arabia formed al-Qaeda in 1988, he has been closely watching the trends by meeting with bin Laden.

In 1998, he traveled to Afghanistan, where he was hiding, in search of the surrender of Bin Laden, and negotiated with the Taliban administration at the time.

Prince Turki resigned as Secretary just before the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States, and has served as Ambassador to the United States and Britain, and is currently retired from the front lines of politics and diplomacy.

Prince Turki is considered to be one of the people who knows more about bin Laden and al-Qaeda because he has been the head of intelligence agencies for a long time.