#5 Wow..I did some reading on Adnan Khashoggi who, according to the game of six degrees claims...
was able to link Khashoggi to Iran-Contra, Wedtech, the Marcos Philippine kleptocracy, BCCI, the death of Princess Di, the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, and the breakup of the Beatles
and the links are like this (tin foil required)
http://slate.msn.com/id/1006609/
The Breakup of the Beatles is often attributed to tensions that arose when John Lennon and Paul McCartney got married. In an interview this past October on British television, McCartney, now a widower, declared his love for a woman named Heather Mills, who was a toddler at the time of the Beatles' breakup. Had McCartney left his wife Linda for Mills at the time, perhaps the Beatles would have remained together. Prior to dating McCartney, Mills reportedly dated Adnan Khashoggi.
Apparently, if Paul had been a child molester, dating Heather Mills when she was a toddler, the breakup of the Beatles would not have happened.
or this:
BCCI. The most complicated bank scandal in human history. Khashoggi had a big account with BCCI's Monte Carlo branch.
As if every rich Saudi in the world didn't have one there.
They try to link him to Teresa LePore, with causing the Gore election to go to Bush..breezing past the fact that she was a registered Democrat.
It goes on, and you get the idea, but actually the guy is an interesting character who is clearly a very big player in the underworld of arms dealing, shady deals and black markets - which I'm sure at a certain level, is not all that large.
Rather than GW, it looks to me more like it's mafia type connections, as this blurb indicates:
In late September, Van Rijn met with Yard detectives at the British embassy in Madrid. He had with him an old friend, a man he and the detectives had been referring to in telephone conversations as "our friend in Spain." The friend was Felice Cultrera, an amateur art-and-antiquities collector; the owner of casinos in Paris, Belgrade, and Prague; someone who was allegedly linked to the Sicilian drug-running Santapaola Mafia; and a money man for weapons merchant Adnan Khashoggi. |
Police on Tuesday killed a militant wanted in the October bombing of an Egyptian tourist resort, only days after Kuwaiti authorities cracked down on militants purportedly influenced by al-Qaida. Tuesday's gunbattle in the Sinai desert and the Kuwait raids follow significant clashes in Bahrain and Oman with suspected militants, raising fears that terrorists inspired or trained by Saudi extremists are taking part in a regional spread of terror.