Word: towing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meese told the board North claimed that such a diversion had first been suggested by Israeli Counterterrorist Expert Amiram Nir in January 1986. Manucher Ghorbanifar, the Iranian middleman on the arms deals, contends that in February North asked him if the Iranians would pay $10,000 per TOW missile, instead of $6,500. When Ghorbanifar said yes, North "was a changed...
...sensing that he was stretching legality too far, our minion of New Hampshire law offered us a choice. "Well, boys, I can either take y'all in for underage drankin', maynin you'd spend some time in jail and have a criminal felony on your record, or...I can tow y'alls...
Spittle sprayed and adrenaline soared as we unanimously and instantaneously decided, "Tow truck!" Tow truck!" Twenty minutes later our car and Officer Redneck disappeared into the night...
...tow truck was sent to pull the car out of the hole, Walsh added. "It didn't fully engulf the vehicle. Only the front part fell in," he said...
...American group returned home empty handed. The U.S. later delivered TOW antitank missiles directly to Iran, instead of through Ghorbanifar and Khashoggi as had been done before, and reduced the price from $12,000 to $8,000 each. An angry Rafsanjani called Mousavi to declare, "Your friend Ghorbanifar is a thief." Ghorbanifar, feeling betrayed and threatened by a CIA frame-up, then freed his Iranian associates to leak the news that created the scandal...