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"The Afghanistan File, written by the former head of Saudi Arabian Intelligence, tells the story of his department's involvement in Afghanistan, from the time of the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the attacks on September 11, 2001. It begins with the backing given by Saudi Arabia to the Mujahideen in their fight against the Soviet occupation, and moves on to the fruitless initiatives to broker peace among the Mujahideen factions after the Soviet withdrawal, the rise to power of the Taliban and the shelter the Taliban gave to Osama Bin Laden. The extraordinary difficulties that Saudi Arabia and its allies faced in dealing with the Mujahideen are a central feature of the book. Prince Turki found them magnificently brave, but exasperating. On one occasion, in trying to arrange peace among them, he got permission from King Fahd to open the Kaaba in Makkah, and had the leaders go inside, where they were overcome with emotion and swore never to fight each other again. A few hours later on their way to Madinah, they almost came to blows on the bus. Prince Turki's account gives details of the Saudi attempts in the 1990s to bring its volunteers out of Afghanistan – with chequered success – and

Author

Prince Turki AlFaisal Al Saud

Publisher

Medina Publishing, Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781911487579

Subjects

History, Political Science, Humanities

Rating

4.6 / 5 (57 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14