Word: khashoggi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...authorities, is impressive, considering the major crackdown on the group that began four years ago after it launched a series of deadly attacks on expatriate housing complexes, government offices and oil sector facilities. "This is a movement that is trying to overthrow the government and the system," says Jamal Khashoggi, editor of the influential Saudi newspaper Al Watan. "Al-Qaeda is not dead. Part of its strategy is to win in Iraq and make it an Islamic state, from which it would launch a campaign to other countries and create a unified Islamic state. It is very naive. One should...
...this work? According to Ghadry, when U.S. arms went to Iran through Israel, the Saudis paid for them. The money went to Adnan Khashoggi, a billionaire Saudi businessman who was acting as a surrogate for the royal family. Khashoggi, in turn, would pay commissions to the Iranian middlemen and give the CIA the book value of the arms for repayment to the Pentagon. Various bank accounts and straw companies were used to conceal the routing of the funds. The same devious channels, according to Ghadry, were used to pour Saudi money into accounts to fund the contras...
...parties to this alleged scheme, including Khashoggi, Saudi officials and the CIA, deny this was done. Any CIA effort to enlist the Saudis in support of the contras would have violated the Boland Amendment, originally passed by Congress in 1982 to stop the use of any U.S. funds to overthrow the government of Nicaragua, and tightened in 1984 to prevent the Administration from using any other country to provide military help to the contras. Many close observers of Saudi affairs doubt the royal family would take the risk of a potential public exposure of dealing with either Iran...
Lilac quit the NSC at the end of 1983 to work as a consultant for Prince Bandar, who is the Saudi Ambassador to Washington. Tyson left in March 1983 to work for Khashoggi. The tortuous trail left by both North and Secord, now a retired Air Force general, touches virtually every mysterious point of action in the entire Iran-contra affair...
...third video, discovered inside one of the Marcoses' semiofficial New York residences, showed Imelda, in black velvet and diamonds, as hostess at a dinner party for Saudi Arabian Billionaire Adnan Khashoggi in a plush Manhattan town house. "You have contributed a lot," says her guest in a gallant toast. "History will judge...