NP? tip of the iceberg

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.....and then, Mr Ghorbanifar took me out to the men's room and made an
indecent proposal!
    -Lt. Col. (ret) Oliver T North. Convicted Felon.


on 3/11/03 12:46 PM, pynchonoid at pynchonoid at yahoo.com wrote:

> 
> <http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030317fa_fact>
> 
> [...] During the Reagan Administration, Khashoggi was
> one of the middlemen between Oliver North, in the
> White House, and the mullahs in Iran in what became
> known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Khashoggi
> subsequently claimed that he lost ten million dollars
> that he had put up to obtain embargoed weapons for
> Iran which were to be bartered (with Presidential
> approval) for American hostages. The scandals of those
> times seemed to feed off each other: a congressional
> investigation revealed that Khashoggi had borrowed
> much of the money for the weapons from the Bank of
> Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.), whose
> collapse, in 1991, defrauded thousands of depositors
> and led to years of inquiry and litigation.
> 
> Khashoggi is still brokering. In January of this year,
> he arranged a private lunch, in France, to bring
> together Harb Saleh al-Zuhair, a Saudi industrialist
> whose family fortune includes extensive holdings in
> construction, electronics, and engineering companies
> throughout the Middle East, and Richard N. Perle, the
> chairman of the Defense Policy Board, who is one of
> the most outspoken and influential American advocates
> of war with Iraq. [...]
> 
> 
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