Haifa bint Faisal

Haifa bint Faisal Al Saud
هيفاء بنت فيصل

Born

1950 (age 66–67)

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Full name
Haifa bint Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

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Full name
Haifa bint Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud

Haifa bint Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, also called Haifa Al Faisal, (Arabic: هيفاء بنت فيصل‎‎) (born 1950) is a member of the House of Saud.

Haifa bint Faisal was born in 1950. She is the daughter of King Faisal and Queen Iffat. She is the full sister of Mohammed bin Faisal, Saud bin Faisal, Luluwah bint Faisal Sara bint Faisal and Turki bin Faisal.

After the September 11 attacks, she was investigated for a sequence of payments allegedly made to a Saudi national by the name of Omar al-Bayoumi, who is known to have assisted two of the hijackers upon their arrival in Southern California, and who himself is suspected of being a Saudi intelligence asset. Investigation has confirmed that some of the payments were in fact forwarded to al-Bayoumi's wife, Manal Bajadr; the significance of these payments (and the extent to which they may have assisted the hijackers) is unclear.

In April 1998, Osama Basnan, a Saudi national living in California, wrote to Haifa requesting money for his wife's needed thyroid surgery. Haifa sent Basnan $15,000, although his wife, Majeda Dweikat, was not actually treated for another two years.

At some later point (accounts vary as to when; dates between November 1999 and March 2000 were given, and a Saudi government official put the onset at 4 December 1999), Haifa began sending monthly cashier's checks to Dweikat of either $2,000 or $3,500, transporting them through Riggs Bank. Dweikat signed some of these checks over to her friend Manal Bajadr, wife of Omar al-Bayoumi. The payments continued through May, 2002 and eventually totaled as much as $73,000. (This sort of charitable donation known as Zakat from members of the House of Saud to Saudi nationals living abroad is not particularly unusual.)

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