Word: faisal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...relationship with Saudi kings. According to legend, on one trip to the kingdom Bechtel noticed the flames of natural gas being burned off at wellheads as he flew over. Surely, he thought, the wasted energy could be put to some use. In 1973 he presented a plan to King Faisal, an old acquaintance: use the gas to power factories in a new city that Bechtel would build on the site of a tiny fishing village at Jubail. The city, still under construction, houses a steel mill and factories that make chemicals, plastics and fertilizer. The town is now home...
...Faisal Khalid '02, whose family lives in Pakistan, is one of those students. Khalid said he plans to attend all the Woodbridge events this weekend...
...Saudis stripped him of his citizenship, and Sudan, under U.S. pressure, forced him to leave his base there. But the Taliban, the Islamist rulers of most of Afghanistan, have not cracked down on him. In July the head of Saudi intelligence, Prince Turki al Faisal, flew to Kandahar and asked the black-turbaned Taliban leaders to keep bin Laden quiet. After the prince left, Mullah Mohammed Omar, the cleric who founded the Taliban movement, had a chat with bin Laden. "We told him," the mullah told TIME, "that as a guest he shouldn't involve himself in activities that create...
IRAQ Saddam Hussein King Faisal II (11) 39 years...
...KING FAISAL 1974 Proving the power of oil--and its Arab masters...