The King Fahd Satellite Telecommunications City is a satellite communications facility located between Mecca and Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. The facility is the control center for the Arab Satellite Communications Organization, one of the largest SATCOM operators in the Middle East/North Africa region.[1] Named after King Fahd who ruled Saudi Arabia from 1982 to 2005, the facility was established in 1988 and consists of four ground stations.[2][3] It is situated right off the Mecca-Jeddah Road.[4][5][6][7]
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of the military efforts to defend it. When Baker asked KingFahd for 15 billion dollars, the King readily agreed, with the promise that Baker ask Kuwait...
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to crack down on radical Sunnis. The government under King Khalid, and later his brother KingFahd, enforced policies to help counteract potential hostility...
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