| "The club's first success was in the Congo | Sly, Liz; DeYoung, Karen 23 February 2013 |
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| Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim 2004 , p | Miglietta, American Alliance Policy 2002 , 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.
12| 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 | 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 |
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| "American military goods were provided by Egypt and Iran, which transferred excess arms from their inventories |
Ogunbadejo, "Conflict in Africa" 1979 , p.
30| Center for Strategic and International Studies | With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed a small Pakistani merchant bank, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International BCCI , into a worldwide money-laundering machine, buying banks around the world in order to create the biggest clandestine money network in history |
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| irwin molotsky, us linked to saudi aid for bosnians | "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 |