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General Intelligence Presidency

Index General Intelligence Presidency

The General Intelligence Presidency (GIP); (رئاسة الاستخبارات العامة), also known as the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) is the primary intelligence agency of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. [1]

28 relations: Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Ahmad Asiri (military), Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Dhahran, Fahd of Saudi Arabia, Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud, Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Grand Mosque seizure, Ibn Saud, Intelligence agency, Jeddah, Kamal Adham, Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud, Khalid of Saudi Arabia, Lieutenant general, Mabahith, Major general, Muhammad bin Nayef, Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Politics of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saud of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia, September 11 attacks, Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, Unification of Saudi Arabia.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (عبدالله بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود,, Najdi Arabic pronunciation:; 1 August 1924 – 23 January 2015) was King of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques from 2005 to his death in 2015.

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Ahmad Asiri (military)

Major General Ahmad Hassan Mohammad Asiri (أحمد حسن محمد عسيري; born 1950s) is an adviser to the Defense minister's office in Saudi Arabia and, the deputy head of the Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah and the former spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen.

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Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud

Bandar bin Sultan (born 2 March 1949) is a member of the House of Saud and was Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States from 1983 to 2005.

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Center for Strategic and International Studies

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C., in the United States.

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Dhahran

Dhahran (Arabic الظهران aẓ-Ẓahrān) is a city located in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia.

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Fahd of Saudi Arabia

Fahd bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques (فهد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود; 16 March 1921 – 1 August 2005) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005.

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Faisal bin Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Saud

Faisal bin Abdullah Al Saud (Arabic: الامير فيصل بن عبدالله بن محمد آل سعود) (born 13 May 1950, Riyadh) is the former minister of education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from 14 February 2009 until 22 December 2013.

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Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (فيصل بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود; 14 April 1906 – 25 March 1975) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975.

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Grand Mosque seizure

The Grand Mosque seizure occurred during November and December 1979 when extremist insurgents calling for the overthrow of the House of Saud took over Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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Ibn Saud

Abdulaziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Faisal ibn Turki ibn Abdullah ibn Muhammad Al Saud (عبد العزيز بن عبد الرحمن آل سعود,; 15 January 1875 – 9 November 1953), usually known within the Arab world as Abdulaziz and in the West as Ibn Saud, was the first monarch and founder of Saudi Arabia, the "third Saudi state".

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Intelligence agency

An intelligence agency is a government agency responsible for the collection, analysis, and exploitation of information in support of law enforcement, national security, military, and foreign policy objectives.

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Jeddah

Jeddah (sometimes spelled Jiddah or Jedda;; جدة, Hejazi pronunciation) is a city in the Hijaz Tihamah region on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest seaport on the Red Sea, and with a population of about four million people, the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. Jeddah is Saudi Arabia's commercial capital. Jeddah is the principal gateway to Mecca and Medina, two of the holiest cities in Islam and popular tourist attractions. Economically, Jeddah is focusing on further developing capital investment in scientific and engineering leadership within Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East. Jeddah was independently ranked fourth in the Africa – Mid-East region in terms of innovation in 2009 in the Innovation Cities Index. Jeddah is one of Saudi Arabia's primary resort cities and was named a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC). Given the city's close proximity to the Red Sea, fishing and seafood dominates the food culture unlike other parts of the country. In Arabic, the city's motto is "Jeddah Ghair," which translates to "Jeddah is different." The motto has been widely used among both locals as well as foreign visitors. The city had been previously perceived as the "most open" city in Saudi Arabia.

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Kamal Adham

Kamal Adham (1929 – 29 October 1999) (كمال أدهم) was a businessman and former director general of Saudi Arabia's Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah or the general intelligence directorate.

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Khalid bin Bandar Al Saud

Khalid bin Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Arabic: الأمير خالد بن بندر بن عبد العزيز آل سعود) (born 16 March 1951) is a member of the House of Saud.

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Khalid of Saudi Arabia

Khalid bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (خالد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود; 13 February 1913 – 13 June 1982) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1975 to 1982.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general, lieutenant-general and similar (abbrev Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries.

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Mabahith

The Mabahith (المباحث العامة,, General Investigation Directorate), also spelled Mabaheth, is the "secret police" agency of the Presidency of State Security in Saudi Arabia, and deals with domestic security and counter-intelligence.

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Major general

Major general (abbreviated MG, Maj. Gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Muhammad bin Nayef

Muhammad bin Nayef Al Saud (محمد بن نايف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود; born 30 August 1959) is a prominent member of the House of Saud.

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Muqrin bin Abdulaziz

Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (مقرن بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود; born 15 September 1945) is a member of House of Saud who served as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from January to April 2015.

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Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz (16 August 1932 – 29 September 2015) (Arabic:نواف بن عبد العزيز آل سعود) was a senior member of the House of Saud and was a close ally of the deceased King Abdullah.

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Politics of Saudi Arabia

The politics of Saudi Arabia takes place in the context of a totalitarian absolute monarchy with some Islamic lines, where the King is both the head of state and government.

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Riyadh

Riyadh (/rɨˈjɑːd/; الرياض ar-Riyāḍ Najdi pronunciation) is the capital and most populous city of Saudi Arabia.

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Saud of Saudi Arabia

Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (سعود بن عبد العزيز آل سعود; 15 January 1902 – 23 February 1969) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Turki bin Faisal Al Saud

Turki bin Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (تركي بن فيصل بن عبد الـعزيز آل سعود) (born 15 February 1945), known also as Turki al-Faisal, is a Saudi politician and diplomat.

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Unification of Saudi Arabia

The unification of Saudi Arabia was a military and political campaign, by which the various tribes, sheikhdoms, city-states, emirates, and kingdoms of most of the Arabian Peninsula were conquered by the House of Saud, or Al Saud, between 1902 and 1932, when the modern-day Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was proclaimed under the leadership of Ibn Saud, creating what is sometimes referred to as the Third Saudi State, to differentiate it from the Emirate of Diriyah, the First Saudi State and the Emirate of Nejd, the Second Saudi State, also House of Saud states.

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Al Mukhabaraat Al 'Aammah, Al Mukhabarat Al A'amah, General Intelligence Directorate (Saudia Arabia), Ri'āsat Al-Istikhbārāt Al-'Āmah, Saudi General Intelligence Directorate, Saudi Intelligence, The Saudi Istikhbarat, الإستخبارات.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Intelligence_Presidency

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