Faced with a rebellion in mineral-rich Katanga now Shaba province in April 1977 and a plea for help from French and Belgian mining interests conveyed through their close ally Mobutu, the club combined French air transport with logistical support from diverse sources to bring Moroccan and Egyptian troops to fight the rebellion | |
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irwin molotsky, us linked to saudi aid for bosnians.
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"American military goods were provided by Egypt and Iran, which transferred excess arms from their inventories | ; Schmitt, Eric 25 February 2013 |
Washington Post, August 28, 1984• With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed a small Pakistani merchant bank, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International BCCI , into a worldwide money-laundering machine, buying banks around the world in order to create the biggest clandestine money network in history.
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"A key example would soon be the 1980s CIA support of the resistance in Afghanistan, where CIA's disastrous favoring of drug traffickers had grown directly out of the Safari Club arrangement and was partly handled through BCCI | "Encouraged by Saudi Arabia, Safari Club members approached Somali president Siad Barre and offered to provide the arms he needed if he stopped taking Russian aid |
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