LBC/IRN · London Broadcasting Company

Title

High security for King Khaled’s visit to UK

Genre

News report

TX Date

Unknown

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:02:20

Description

Kevin Murphy reports on threats to assassinate King Khalid of Saudi Arabia during his visit to London. Two Palestinian guerrilla groups, led by Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi and international terrorist Carlos the Jackal, are alleged by Egypt’s Middle East News Agency to be plotting the killing. The King is due to visit the Queen Mother, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington. He also has engagements with the Lord Mayor of London, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, the Saudi Arabian Ambassador and a banquet at Claridge’s Hotel which will be attended by the Queen, Prince Philip, and the Queen Mother.

Contributors

Kevin Murphy

Keywords

London; Margaret Thatcher; Terrorism; Homicide; Queen Elizabeth II; Prince Philip; Diplomacy; State visits; Saudi Arabia; Royalty; Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother; Palestine; Peter Carington; Security; Muammar al-Gaddafi; Carlos the Jackal; Queen Mother; Duke of Gloucester; King Khalid; Khalid bin Abdul Aziz; Ilich Ramirez Sanchez; Christopher Lever; Prince Richard; Duchess of Gloucester

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