Heather Mills McCartney is alleged to have "partied" with Adnan Khashoggi

among other ME folks that we have discussed in some detail here for years.

Anyone want to discuss that "allegation" instead of other allegations?

Is Heather black-ops? Or do you think she's a mole?

Outside of that she is a monopede.
:hi:

Back on top of the game :woohoo:

But let us remember, Heather has ::gasp:: only one leg. It HAS to mean something.

as to whether she leans right or left

round and round in circles
sure as buzzards gliding
on the summer wind

or is it just hot air? I always get that confused. ;)

be helpful-that al Queda guy--I forgot how to spell his name.

near Kensington Palace in 1993.

This story has legs of its own too.

But Adnan Khashoggi...

...as a "stewardess" before she gained notoriety as the creator of the screwy Palm Beach ballot that gave all those DEM votes to Pat the NAZI Buchanan.

Now that you mention it, Roberto-san, Heather Mills McCartney seems just the type for Adnan.

:hi:

Is Theresa next in line to marry Mc Cartney?

That'll ensure the plausibility of the McCain-Jebthro "victory" in '08.

Of course, McCain'll get the Hinckley treatment and it's Pretzeldent Jebthro.

That is a fate for us even worse than W.

a hell of a party.

bullshit she had sex with him she DESERVES millions.

just to have him sing to me

:)

administration--and Condi (like Jack Straw) is a Beatles fan too.

things that Sir Paul and his late wife were against-what a paradox, at best.

I can't help but remember the rumours about the death of Princess Diana Spencer...

ownership? some Brit mogul: 'Tiny" Rowland maybe. Well, we all have a history. Hope mine never ends up in the Brit tabloids.

He's Dodi Fayed's uncle.

And Adnan Khashoggi (Octafish really knows quite a bit about him)
here's a bit about him (IranContra, BCCI, throwing the 2000 "election", drugs, the bin Ladens, etc. etc.)
Source Watch
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Adnan_Khashoggi

Slate
http://www.slate.com/?id=1006609

Seymour Hersh
http://fuller.mit.edu/peace/hersh_perle.html

Greg Palast
http://cryptome.sabotage.org/palast.htm

But perhaps you already heard about some of his crimes.

in a company called Barrick Gold.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrick_Gold

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=207&row=4
Poppy Strikes Gold

April 2003
By Greg Palast,
From The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Penguin/Plume, 2003)

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Some of the loot for the Republican effort in the 1997-2000 election cycles came from an outfit called Barrick Corporation. The sum, while over $100,000, is comparatively small change for the GOP, yet it seemed quite a gesture for a corporation based in Canada. Technically, the funds came from those associated with the Canadian’s U.S. unit, Barrick Gold Strike. They could well afford it. In the final days of the Bush (Senior) administration, the Interior Department made an extraordinary but little noticed change in procedures under the 1872 Mining Law, the gold rush-era act that permitted those whiskered small-time prospectors with their tin pans and mules to stake claims on their tiny plots. The department initiated an expedited procedure for mining companies that allowed Barrick to swiftly lay claim to the largest gold find in America. In the terminology of the law, Barrick could “perfect its patent” on the estimated $10 billion in ore—for which Barrick paid the U.S. Treasury a little under $ 10,000. Eureka!

Barrick, of course, had to put up cash for the initial property rights and the cost of digging out the booty (and the cost of donations, in smaller amounts, to support Nevada’s Democratic senator, Harry Reid). Still, the shift in rules paid off big time: According to experts at the Mineral Policy Center of Washington, DC, Barrick saved—and the U.S. taxpayer lost—a cool billion or so. Upon taking office, Bill Clinton’s new interior secretary, Bruce Babbitt, called Barrick’s claim the “biggest gold heist since the days of Butch Cassidy.” Nevertheless, because the company followed the fast-track process laid out for them under Bush, this corporate Goldfinger had Babbitt by the legal nuggets. Clinton had no choice but to give them the gold mine while the public got the shaft.

Barrick says it had no contact whatsoever with the president at the time of the rules change.<1> There was always a place in Barrick’s heart for the older Bush—and a place on its payroll. In 1995, Barrick hired the former president as Honorary Senior Advisor to the Toronto company’s International Advisory Board. Bush joined at the suggestion of former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney, who, like Bush, had been ignominiously booted from office. I was a bit surprised that the president had signed on. When Bush was voted out of the White House, he vowed never to lobby or join a corporate board. The chairman of Barrick openly boasts that granting the title “Senior Advisor” was a sly maneuver to help Bush tiptoe around this promise.

I was curious: What does one do with a used president? Barrick vehemently denies that it appointed Bush “in order to procure him to make contact with other world leaders whom he knows, or who could be of considerable assistance” to the company. Yet, in September 1996, Bush wrote a letter to help convince Indonesian dictator Suharto to give Barrick a new, hot gold-mining concession. Bush’s letter seemed to do the trick. Suharto took away 68 percent of the world’s largest goldfield from the finder of the ore and handed it to Barrick. However, Bush’s lobbying magic isn’t invincible. Jim Bob Moffett, a tough old Louisiana swamp dog who heads Freeport-McMoRan, Barrick’s American rival, met privately with Suharto. When Suharto emerged from their meeting, the kleptocrat announced that Freeport would replace Bush’s Canadians. (Barrick lucked out: The huge ore deposit turned out to be a hoax. When the con was uncovered, Jim Bob’s associates invited geologist Mike de Guzman, who “discovered” the gold, to talk about the error of his ways. Unfortunately, on the way to the meeting, de Guzman fell out of a helicopter.)

Who is this “Barrick” to whom our former president would lease out the reflected prestige of the Oval Office? I could not find a Joe Barrick in the Canadian phone book. Rather, the company as it operates today was founded by one Peter Munk. The entrepreneur first came to public notice in Canada in the 1960s as a central figure in an insider trading scandal. Munk had dumped his stock in a stereo-making factory he controlled just before it went belly up, leaving other investors and government holding the bag. He was never charged, but, notes Canada’s Maclean’s magazine, the venture and stock sale “cost Munk his business and his reputation.” Yet today, Munk’s net worth is estimated at $350 million, including homes on two continents and his own island

How did he go from busted stereo maker to demi-billionaire goldbug? The answer: Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer, the “bag man” in the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostage scandals. The man who sent guns to the ayatolla teamed up with Munk on hotel ventures and, ultimately, put up the cash to buy Barrick in 1983, then a tiny company with an “unperfected” claim on the Nevada mine. You may recall that Bush pardoned the coconspirators who helped Khashoggi arm the Axis of Evil, making charges against the sheik all but impossible. (Bush pardoned the conspirators not as a favor to Khashoggi, but to himself.)

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?fact/030317fa_fact

LUNCH WITH THE CHAIRMAN
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH

Why was Richard Perle meeting with Adnan Khashoggi?
Issue of 2003-03-17
Posted 2003-03-10

At the peak of his deal-making activities, in the nineteen-seventies, the Saudi-born businessman Adnan Khashoggi brokered billions of dollars in arms and aircraft sales for the Saudi royal family, earning hundreds of millions in commissions and fees. Though never convicted of wrongdoing, he was repeatedly involved in disputes with federal prosecutors and with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in recent years he has been in litigation in Thailand and Los Angeles, among other places, concerning allegations of stock manipulation and fraud. During the Reagan Administration, Khashoggi was one of the middlemen between Oliver North, in the White House, and the mullahs in Iran in what became known as the Iran-Contra scandal. Khashoggi subsequently claimed that he lost ten million dollars that he had put up to obtain embargoed weapons for Iran which were to be bartered (with Presidential approval) for American hostages. The scandals of those times seemed to feed off each other: a congressional investigation revealed that Khashoggi had borrowed much of the money for the weapons from the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (B.C.C.I.), whose collapse, in 1991, defrauded thousands of depositors and led to years of inquiry and litigation.

Khashoggi is still brokering. In January of this year, he arranged a private lunch, in France, to bring together Harb Saleh al-Zuhair, a Saudi industrialist whose family fortune includes extensive holdings in construction, electronics, and engineering companies throughout the Middle East, and Richard N. Perle, the chairman of the Defense Policy Board, who is one of the most outspoken and influential American advocates of war with Iraq.

The Defense Policy Board is a Defense Department advisory group composed primarily of highly respected former government officials, retired military officers, and academics. Its members, who serve without pay, include former national-security advisers, Secretaries of Defense, and heads of the C.I.A. The board meets several times a year at the Pentagon to review and assess the country’s strategic defense policies.

Perle is also a managing partner in a venture-capital company called Trireme Partners L.P., which was registered in November, 2001, in Delaware. Trireme’s main business, according to a two-page letter that one of its representatives sent to Khashoggi last November, is to invest in companies dealing in technology, goods, and services that are of value to homeland security and defense. The letter argued that the fear of terrorism would increase the demand for such products in Europe and in countries like Saudi Arabia and Singapore.

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another article -

Vintage Sy Hirsch ..November 1979

http://www.aim.org/publications/aim_report/1979/11b.html

THE FINAL ARBITER OF NATIONAL SECURITY

Seymour Hersh, the reporter who first won fame for his work in breaking the story of the My Lai massacre and who later set off two congressional investigations of the CIA with stories in The New York Times about illegal actions on the part of that agency, sparked a heated discussion at the AIM conference panel on "The Media and the Intelligence Community."

"Guess who is the final arbiter of national security in this democracy," Hersh said. "We (the medial are. Isn't that a horrifying thought? We have the bottom line. We get a document. We don't have any committee to refer to. We don't have any clearances to get... The bottom line is that it's up to us. And that's the way it is. I'm sorry if you don't like it."

Citing the protection given the media by the first amendment, Hersh said: "The bottom line for me as a journalist is, it's your guys' job to keep it secret, and it's my job to find it out."

When a questioner said that this was strictly a legalistic approach and asked Hersh to provide some justification for the media being given such enormous power,Hersh said, "Ask Tom Jefferson." He conceded, however, that there might be abuses. He acknowledged that the tendency of the reporter who got a leak of secret documents was to publish the information. He said: "You tend to want to run it, get it in the paper, jump in, make a headline. There isn't enough assessment of why."

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Khashoggi+and+Theresa+Lepore&btnG=Google+Search

"Madame Butterfly" Theresa LePore wasn't always an embattled Palm Beach ballots chief. In the 1980s, she moonlighted as a flight attendant on private planes owned by Saudi weapons dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a middleman in Reagan administration arms sales to Iran.


http://slate.msn.com/id/1006609

http://216.239.33.104/search?q=cache:3oYy-5vuWlMJ:www.dooyoo.co.uk/speakers_corner/discussion/attacks_on_america/_review/311894/+Khashoggi+and+jackson+stephens&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Jackson Stephens, a name often linked with America’s super-secret National Security Agency, has been an influential presence for several decades in the tiny town which served as port of entry into U.S. flight and even military training for the terrorist cadre implicated in the Sept 11 attack.

A block away from the Venice Florida airport stands an opulent three-story red brick building that is a monument to the rivers of money flowing through the Stephens financial empire.

http://www.madcowprod.com/index8.html

and, some folks don't think its fair to mention that wesley clark worked for Stephens, Inc. after leaving the military up until Feb of 2003 - they say it's guilt by association - imo, the company one keeps is quite telling

Adnan Khashoggi's guru
http://www.rickross.com/reference/ramtha/ramtha1.html

Even Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi, the Saudi arms dealer, have a guru--India's Shri Chandra Swamiji Maharaj. In addition to providing spiritual counsel to the fabulously wealthy and hobnobbing with Elizabeth Taylor, the guru, who's been called a "one-man jet-set-introduction service" apparently greases the wheels in weapons transactions and was implicated in the Iran-Contra arms deal. The vastly rich swami was arrested by the Indian police in 1987 on charges of currency fraud.


http://www.madcowprod.com/MC6812004.html

Any quick look at the Saudi arms dealer shows his notoriety stems from more than just singing too loud in church, or mosque, or whatever temple roof he and Imelda Marco huddle underneath together with their personal guru.

Even Khashoggi’s guru has CIA connections, we learned: the vastly rich swami has been under official suspicion in the assassination of Indian Premier Rajiv Ghandi, and was even arrested by Indian police for currency fraud.


http://www.guardianlies.com/Pre-DTI%20press/page44.html
The Observer, 18 May 1986


A rich and mysterious Indian guru is emerging as another key figure in the Harrods deal. It was he, Shri Chandra Swamiji Maharaj, who arranged the introduction of Mohammed Fayed to the Sultan of Brunei in 1984.

The Swami, a giant bearded figure in flowing white, claims to advise a number of leading political figures around the world, including King Hussein of Jordan, President Mobutu, Rajiv Gandhi and Richard Nixon. He is currently on his way to visit ex-President Marcos in Honolulu. He has met Mrs Thatcher several times.

The Swami is always accompanied by his business adviser Mamaji, Kailash Nath Agar Vall, who relieves him of any unpleasant commercial transactions which may happily occur in the course of his spiritual interviews.

Fayed was asked for two million dollars for the introduction to the Sultan. Eventually Fayed paid the Swami half a million dollars plus a percentage of any future deals, which might result from the meeting. These turned out to be substantial.



http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/edesk042305.htm

"a cross between Rasputin and Machiavelli",
Microscoping Maurice Strong

by Judi McLeod
Saturday, April 23, 2005

Canadian businessman and UN envoy Maurice Strong is one weird dude.

...

Weird in his handpicked protégés. Try Canada’s Prime Minister Paul Martin, the career politician whose one and only trip to the election polls as Canadian PM reduced the powerful Liberal Party to minority status. This, after assuming the mantle left by the departure of Jean Chrétien in pomp and splendour Indian smudging ceremonies, addressed by Irish rock star, Bono. Martin’s surrealistic ascension to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) had such an emotional impact on Strong that he wept.

Strong actually teared up at the mention of Martin in the PMO on Canada’s state-controlled television network, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which ran a special, called the Life and Times of Maurice Strong just three months after Martin’s December 12, 2003 swearing-in ceremony. In the special, CBC reporter Ann-Marie McDonald gushed about how Strong was a special guest in the still Gorbachev controlled Kremlin and how he came away with a saber-shaped bottle of brandy from Joseph Stalin’s special stock.

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You can call it weird from whence Strong came in the world of business. He was spawned by the Montreal-based Power Corporation, whose CEO Paul Desmarais is a key figure in BNP Paribas, Saddam Hussein’s favourite bank and part of the oil-for-food investigation.

...

Strong is weird in the kind of advisors from whom he says he takes his counsel. For example, "Koreagate Man" Tongsun Park, with whom he admits he has continued to maintain a relationship, and who Strong said in a written statement, advised him on "North Korean issues in my role as a U.N. envoy." In other words, Strong was taking advice from a man the U.S. Attorney’s Office is looking to arrest for allegedly accepting millions of dollars from the Iraqi government while operating in the U.S. as an unregistered agent for Baghdad.

...

It is weird that Strong advocates for world depopulation schemes; tells the unwashed masses that both refrigeration and air conditioning are going to wipe out Mother Earth. It’s weird that as a practicing New Ager, Strong dabbles in the occult. Weird is that he didn’t know one of the largest American aquifers was sitting right under the 100,000-acre Baca Ranch in Colorado, he ran as a New Age Mecca with his wife Hanne, and that he came to acquire the property through Saudi arms dealer Adnan Koshoggi.

Weirdest of all is the spin that comes with the Maurice Strong package. The kind of spin about Strong that comes from Nicholas Sonntag, a Canadian who heads up the Beijing office of CH2M Hill, one of the world’s leading environment companies. Sonntag has said of Strong’s business in China: "They (China) are taking a big risk. They’re determined to be the economic engine of the world. This is why Maurice is here--to help them think things through."

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Now with Khashoggi connected to the Beatles, and through them most of the 60's counter culture, it's going to be WAY too easy to connect him to just about ANYONE now, not just everyone in DC, as had been the case previously.

We're going to have to change the game. Maybe it should change to 'Six Degrees of Jack Abramoff' now?

Things that make you go hmm...

in a limo while she shopped.

:shrug:

figuratively-as a servant.

"Servants of the Crown"
http://www.geocities.com/saudhouse_p/servants1.htm

wife and family at the same time. It's not anything that is widely known here in the USA. In wealthy Arab fashion each wife has her own household, servants, homes etc. for herself and her children. This one was particularly fond of shopping on Rodeo drive in Beverly Hills. When she was in town with her household and children, they rented a home in Malibu for these shopping excursions. That's all I know.

I wouldn't be surprised if he kept this card until he needed it for alimony---which just got reduced by about a quarter billion.

especially if he married her knowing it?

My dad worked with a guy at a steel mill who married a woman he met in a brothel. She was a good person, a good wife to him and a good mother to their children...

Politically, this just says "Adnan Khashoggi used prostitutes". Big fucking deal. We all assumed that anyway, didn't we?

Lounge.

:sarcasm: