Word: fahd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...went to work for Mohammed Al-Zahid, owner of the company and a close business partner of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia...
According to an American expert with close ties to Riyadh, Saudi King Fahd is "apoplectic" about the aggressive American probe. The Arabs, says this source, "are appalled and prefer to believe the B.C.C.I. investigation is a Zionist plot." Though the New York indictments differ little from ones handed down by the U.S. Justice Department, it has been New York's Morgenthau who has set the agenda. The Saudis claim that his father, former Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, was instrumental in persuading President Harry Truman to recognize the new state of Israel. (The theory is shaky: ironically, it was a young...
...keen in the Middle East, especially when Israel and Arab states were involved. When American arms destined for Iran and Iraq passed through Israel, for example, B.C.C.I. was frequently the broker and financier. One such transfer involved Iraq's acquisition of Silkworm missiles from China in the mid-1980s. Fahd, worried that Iran was winning its war with Iraq, sought missiles for Saddam Hussein's regime, but was rebuffed by the U.S. and France. B.C.C.I. stepped in and brokered a deal with China as a supplier of the rockets and Israel as a provider of the high-technology guidance systems...
...Rabin will do what he must to get them. The Arabs, as the saying goes, have never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity, but they clearly want to help Bush too." That's right, says a Saudi Cabinet minister who was present when Baker met with King Fahd last week. "We didn't need to be told that we Arabs can help Bush by showing some flexibility. We owe him for the gulf war, and in any event we see the Democrats as Zionists. Even ((Syrian President)) Assad understands that four more years of Bush would be better...
...Mexican publisher, the struggling 34-year-old U.S. wire service again avoided dissolution when London-based Middle East Broadcasting Center agreed to purchase it for $3.95 million. The chairman and principal shareholder of MBC is Sheik Walid al-Ibrahim, brother-in-law of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd. The U.P.I. purchase marks the Saudis' first foray into the mainstream American press...