Word: turki
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...Prince Turki al Faisal of Saudi Arabia knows Afghanistan well. He helped direct Saudi aid to anti-Soviet fighters in their war against Moscow. And since 1998, as head of the Saudi intelligence service, he's made a number of attempts to negotiate a deal to get Osama bin Laden out of Afghanistan. He failed. Still, Turki believes the current American method of trying to extract bin Laden is ill-advised...