Saudi Arabia Names Former Ambassador to U.S. as Intelligence Chief
King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz appointed as intelligence chief of Saudi Arabia, Prince Badar Bin Sultan, who will also continue as general secretary of the National Security Council, reported the Wahhabi royal court.
An edict of the King broadcasted on state television said that Sultan Bin, who served as Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005, replaced Prince Abdelaziz bin Moqren, appointed by another decree adviser and special envoy of the king.Sultan Bin was assigned to the National Security Council in 2005, just when Saudi Arabia launched a major offensive against al-Qaeda army, after the radical Islamist network attacked this country many times.The newly appointed officer was born in 1949 and he is the son of Crown Prince Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, who died in October 2011.
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