| ; Schmitt, Eric 25 February 2013 | Richard Zoglin; Jay Peterzell and Bruce van Voorst 12 October 1987 |
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| Bronson, Thicker than Oil 2006 , p | "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 |
Roula Khalaf and Abigail Fielding Smith 16 May 2013.
2| "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 | New York Times, April 3, August 25, October 18, and October 29,1981• "The Shah provided covert assistance to groups seeking to destabilize the governments of Soviet allies in the region such as Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as providing assistance to pro-Western governments such as Oman and South Vietnam |
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| The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order | Gebru Tareke, "The Ethiopia-Somalia War of 1977 Revisited", The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 33 3 , 2000; accessed |
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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