He questioned the support of the US administration to Greece instead of Turkey in late May 1976 citing Turkey's contributions in the Korean War during the 1950s. In an interview on BBC Summary of World Broadcasts he expressed the following views on Zionism, communism and colonialism on 3 July 1979: We regard Zionism, communism and colonialism as a trinity allied against Arab and Islamic rights and aspirations. Our policy is based on that understanding, and it is natural for us to be always subjected to biased and poisonous campaigns at the hand of that very trinity. Following the defeat of invaders of Grand Mosque King Khalid expressed the following: if al Otaibi and his cohorts had targeted palaces rather than the Grand Mosque [in their 1979 uprising the results of the uprising might have been very different.