Word: saudi
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Sources also point to China as a supplier of nuclear hardware for Pakistan, as well as missile-delivery systems for Pakistan, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, including a B.C.C.I.-brokered sale of midrange ballistic missiles to ( the Saudis in 1988. By way of explanation, they cite B.C.C.I.'s close banking relations with China, where $400 million in assets were frozen after the bank's offices were shut down in July. Abedi's bank had been the first Western-style bank allowed to operate on the communist mainland, in part because of Abedi's early support of CITIC, the Chinese investment...
...into charges that former President Alan Garcia Perez looted government funds by siphoning them through B.C.C.I. accounts in Panama. Returning from a month-long vacation in Europe, Garcia hotly denied the accusations. At the same time, officials in Chile and Argentina scrutinized the financial affairs of Ghaith Pharaon, a Saudi tycoon and B.C.C.I. front man who is building Hyatt hotels in both countries...
...months ago, the world watched as Iraqi Scuds hurtled down on Israeli and Saudi Arabian cities. American Patriot antiballistic missiles foiled many of those strikes. Now a standard feature on the TV evening news is the cat-and- mouse game that Saddam Hussein is playing with international inspectors looking for evidence of his Manhattan Project...
...headed by former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and his law partner Robert Altman. Clifford and Altman, who served as attorneys for B.C.C.I. throughout the 1980s, have denied knowing it owned First American. The other two secretly owned banks were the National Bank of Georgia, which Ghaith Pharaon, a Saudi tycoon and B.C.C.I. front man, acquired from Carter Administration official Bert Lance, and Miami's CenTrust Savings. Pharaon used B.C.C.I. funds to become a partner of financier David Paul, who built CenTrust into a giant house of cards before it collapsed last year at a cost to taxpayers of more than...
...During the gulf war, Assad moved closer to Washington and the moderate Arabs by joining the alliance against Iraq. For his efforts, he received major subsidies from Saudi Arabia -- at least $2.5 billion so far -- and a nod of acceptance from the U.S. as he completed his domination of Lebanon and disarmed the rival militias. Whatever threat Lebanon's civil war might have posed to Syrian hegemony is now gone...