Saudi Prince Turki: 'High Level of Disappointment' With US Over Syria
In an interview with Al-Monitor, the former intelligence chief for Saudi Arabia says it's “up to the Iranians to show that their sweet and sensible talk is going to be translated into action.”
![BUSH SAUDI ARABIA (L to R) Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, U.S. President George W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington July 23, 2006. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES) - RTR1FRMW](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2013/10/Picture.jpg/Picture.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=Qd2uaJ7W)
WASHINGTON — Prince Turki Al-Faisal Al-Saud, chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies and former director-general of the Kingdom’s General Intelligence Directorate, said on Tuesday, Oct. 22, ‘There is definitely, from a public opinion point of view in the Kingdom, a high level of disappointment in the US government’s dealings, not just with Palestine, but equally with Syria.”
Speaking with Al-Monitor after delivering the luncheon keynote address at the annual Arab-US Policymakers Conference of the National Council on US-Arab Relations, Prince Turki said the Syrian opposition “should not be treated the way that the US has treated them.”