Faisal bin Musa'id bin Abdul Aziz (April 4, 1944, Riyadh - June 18, 1975, Riyadh) (Arabic: فيصل بن مساعد بن عبد العزيز آل سعود‎) was the assassin and nephew of King Faisal. The younger Faisal's father was Prince Musa'id bin Abdul Aziz, a half-brother of King Faisal, and fifteenth son of Ibn Saud, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. His mother was Watfa, a daughter of Mohammad ibn Talal, the 12th (and last) Rashidi amir.

Born to Musa'id bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, who along with his wife was regarded as being eccentric among the Royal family, Faisal is known to have had a brother named Khaled who died after demonstrations against a television station in Riyadh, shot by Saudi defense forces in 1965. Khaled was regarded as a religious extremist, and his protest was due to his view of the depiction of images being against Islam. Faisal is also known to have had another brother, Prince Bandar, and a sister, Princess Al Jawhara.

Faisal is known to have studied in the United States, taking undergraduate course work at San Francisco State College and the University of Colorado. Here he was arrested in 1970 for selling LSD, although the district attorney would drop the charges. Faisal would then take graduate courses in political science at Berkeley, although he did not finish his degree, and he would leave the United States after being acquitted of his drug dealing charges due in part to diplomatic immunity.

After leaving the United States, the Prince spent some time in Beirut, where he was known to be involved with drugs. It was also later learned that he visited East Germany before returning to Saudi Arabia, although the reason behind this was never determined.

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