Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al-Saud:
Effectively, it was naive.
However, through the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, all people supported the mujahideen. When, lastly, al-Qaida established itself in Afghanistan, and bin Laden in 1989 got here to me to tell me that he would really like, as he mentioned, to convey his mujahideen to go and combat the communist regime within the Arabian Peninsula, South Yemen, on the time, and I informed him, we do not want your mujahideen, mainly, so, do not name us, we’ll name you.
The identical yr, 1990, the Iraqis invaded Kuwait, and bin Laden did not come to me, however he went to a different Saudi official, the late protection minister, mainly repeated what I had informed him earlier than: Thanks very a lot. Do not intrude.
And I believe that is when he started his enmity, if you happen to like, to the dominion.
