Word: khashoggi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Travelers aboard Arms Dealer Adnan Khashoggi's $40 million DC-8 enjoyed the last word in airborne luxury. But last week the jetliner, with its three bedrooms, crystal goblets and Russian sable bedspread, was seized by police at Le Bourget Airport in Paris under a court order obtained by British Industrialist Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, who seeks repayment of a $2.5 million loan...
...flew to Iran last May with a planeload of weapons, Ghorbanifar says, he chartered the jet and paid for the group's stay in Tehran. McFarlane says he does not know who paid but assumes the bill was split by the U.S. and Iranian governments. Ghorbanifar also charges that Khashoggi was cut out of several of the deals on orders from McFarlane. The former National Security Adviser replies that he never had anything to do with Khashoggi but did recommend, after meeting Ghorbanifar in London in December 1985, that the U.S. have no more dealings with any middlemen. Whatever...
...would get caught slipping arms to the Ayatullah's regime? In the byzantine world of the weapons dealers, it is as hard to determine what is truth and what is disinformation as it is to disentangle the mixture of visionary and conniver in the personalities of Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi. As investigators probe deeper into the scandal, Americans can only hope that Washington's policy does not prove to be as devious as the arms merchants say it was -- and as their own maneuvers often seem...
...Adnan Khashoggi and Manucher Ghorbanifar explain how they maneuvered to set up sales of U.S. weapons to Iran...
...Khashoggi may be in some financial trouble, but as a lavish spender he is still the global champion. An inside look at the Saudi sybarite's glittering world of jets, yachts, mansions, fabulous parties and glamorous "escorts." See World...