Assassinated King
1975 was a distraught time for the Saudi royal family, because it was this year that they experienced a family assassination. King Faisal’s nephew assassinated him after he returned from a trip to America. It wasn’t long before the murder that Time magazine named King Faisal as the “Man of the Year”.
9/11 Involvement
When the United States was recovering from the tragedy of 9/11, Saudi Arabia was defending their non-involvement in the attacks. But soon proof would come to light that 15 of the 19 hijackers who perpetrated the attacks on that Tuesday morning, in fact came from Saudi Arabia.