| Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim 2004 , p | 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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| ; Schmitt, Eric 25 February 2013 | "Washington had done little to control, and seemingly ahd encouraged, Egypt, Iran, and Saudi Arabia to take advantage of the more liberal policies of other Western states and make third-party arms transfers to Somalia |
"The club's first success was in the Congo.
23| "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 | Heikal, Iran: The Untold Story 1982 , p |
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| Gebru Tareke, "The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited", The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 33 3 , 2000; accessed | Lefebvre, Arms for the Horn 1992 , p |
Lefebvre, Arms for the Horn 1992 , pp.
8| Trento, Prelude to Terror 2005 , p | Ogunbadejo, "Conflict in Africa" 1979 , p |
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| Saudi Arabia: National Security in a Troubled Region | "The Safari Club met at an exclusive resort of the same name in Kenya, which in the same year, 1976, was visited and eventually bought by Adham's friend Adnan Kashoggi |
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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