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...York Businessman Roy Furmark, a consultant to Saudi Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi, described a financial mystery in an interview with TIME. His story: Khashoggi lined up $25 million in bridge financing for U.S. sales of arms to Iran this year. Toronto Investors Donald Fraser and Ernest Miller, together with some Middle Eastern and European investors, routed the $25 million via Khashoggi into the Swiss account of Lake Resources, Inc. -- $10 million in February and $15 million in May. Why Lake Resources? Says Furmark: "Mr. Khashoggi said Mr. Nir of the Israeli government told him that Lake Resources was the account...
...Middle East middlemen in the arms deal, Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi and Iranian representative Manucher Ghorbanifar, said on ABC-TV's "20-20" program that North apparently controlled Swiss bank accounts through which up to $35 million was deposited in the secret Iran weapons transactions that he coordinated...
...early 1985 Adnan Khashoggi, a wealthy Saudi businessman, entered the picture. Khashoggi fostered ties to two Israeli arms merchants: Yaacov Nimrodi, a former army colonel and longtime Israeli military attache in Tehran during the Shah's reign; and Al Schwimmer, the founding president of Israel Aircraft Industries and a close friend of then Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. He brought them together with Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iranian arms dealer who was close to Iran's Prime Minister. According to the New York Times, the four met in London, where Ghorbanifar proposed that the Israelis ship TOW antitank missiles and Hawk...
...Reagan. The story in Jerusalem is that the White House designated Poindexter to look into the idea, and he named North as liaison with Israel. In any case, the Israeli businessmen were authorized by Peres to resume contacts and strike a deal with the Iranians. The executives turned to Adnan Khashoggi, a famed Saudi Arabian wheeler-dealer and an extremely wealthy businessman. He got a long shopping list from Tehran that included Hawk antiaircraft missiles and radar-guidance equipment for them, antitank missiles, and spare parts for jet fighters...
...highway north of Basra, which is just 50 miles from Fao. Defensive earthworks have been built along the road, with machine-gun nests and tank positions placed every 500 yards. The Iraqi brass is determined not to be diverted from retaking the Fao Peninsula. Declares Defense Minister General Adnan Khairallah, brother-in-law of President Saddam Hussein: "I can assure you we will do so with the least possible casualties...