Bad boy Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer who negotiated the arms sales to Iran in the Iran-Contra affair, has finally been brought to justice by the ever-vigilant SEC. Let me give you some background: Having started his career as an honest businessman, brokering arms deals in the Middle East for Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop-Grumman, and investing in diamond mining in the Central African Empire, Khashoggi became the world's richest man in the 1980s. (It was his yacht below that was used in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again.) However, business wasn't always good. His Triad Holding...
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