in Afghanistan, "was relieved of the post at his (own) request." In Ghost Wars, his Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the CIA and Osama bin Laden, Steve Coll wrote: "Turki's vast personal riches . . . bothered some of his rivals in the royal family. They felt the Saudi intelligence department had become a

policy towards Iran, including the use of brute force, was definitely in the mind of the ideological 'hawks' around Mullah Omar. See on this subject Steve Coll, Ghost Wars, New York: Penguin, 2004, p.340. 32 John Parker. Persian Dreams. Moscow and Tehran since the Fall of the Shah, Washington D.C.: Potomac