Try or get the SensagentBox With a , visitors to your site can access reliable information on over 5 million pages provided by Sensagent | Ogunbadejo, "Conflict in Africa" 1979 , p |
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dobbs, saudis funded weapons for bosnia, official says; |
"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 | "American military goods were provided by Egypt and Iran, which transferred excess arms from their inventories |
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Lefebvre, Arms for the Horn 1992 , p | 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 |
In an effort to further advance these goals, the Shah associated Iran with a group of conservative Middle Eastern and African states in an informal organization known as the Safari Club.
16Saudi Arabia: National Security in a Troubled Region | irwin molotsky, us linked to saudi aid for bosnians |
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Trento, Prelude to Terror 2005 , p |
Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, New York: Penguin, 2004; ; pp.
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