Saudi's appoint new ambassador to US

In a controversial move protested by the US State Department, Saudi Arabia has appointed a new ambassador to the United States. Now that wouldn't normally be news unless this ambassador was previously fired from his previous post for domestic intelligence in Saudi Arabia. Turki Al-Feisal was alleged to have paid off Al-Qaeda because he was trying to build a pipeline through Afghanistan which at the time was controlled by the Taliban led by Osama Bin Laden. The Taliban was not cooperating with the Saudi's on this project.