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Khashoggi, Iran-Contra, and Donald Trump

Social media disinformation expert Professor Marc Owen Jones analysed the trend. He found that most of the 60,000 Soleimani-hating came from nearly 10,000 accounts, which had for the most common phrases “Make America Great Again” and “Trump”. Personally I wouldn’t expect that accounts using those phrases are Iranians.
Marc Jones concluded that “once again that the online right wing MAGA movement is boosting the trend that seeks to indicate that Iranians actually hated Soleimani”.

Those who were most extreme in their opposition to the recently killed general, had typical machine-generated usernames and generic profiles, with little personal data and default, plain displays on their page. This is an increasingly common occurrence in conflicts, to control the narrative on the internet.
In November 2019, during the U.S.-backed coup against President Evo Morales, thousands of newly created bots boosted a Spanish-language hashtag “there is no coup in Bolivia”.

There is evidence to suggest that most Iranians didn’t hate the killed Soleimani.
A 2019 survey by the University of Maryland found that “General Soleimani remains the most popular Iranian public figure” with 59% of the country viewing him “very favorably” and more than 80% of Iranians having a positive opinion of him.

A Morning Consultant poll showed that 47% of the Americans interviewed, support the drone assassination of Soleimani, although they agreed it made America less safe.
According to recent polls by Reuters and Ipsos, 39% of Americans “strongly disapprove” of the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran situation. Last weekend there were more than 70 anti-war protests across the United States.

According to Noam Chomsky, the US is a “rogue state” conducting “reckless international terrorism” with Trump’s actions giving ISIS “another lease on life”: https://www.mintpressnews.com/study-bots...ag/264024/
(http://archive.is/RaR8r)

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Apparently Adnan Khashoggi was one of the most important merchants to arm the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Khashoggi was even present at the notorious 19/20 October Paris meeting where George Bush Sr. made a deal with representatives of Khomeini to not release the American hostages.

In 1985, Mahfouz's Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB) loaned Khashoggi $35 million dollars to finance the illegal sale of weapons to Iran, at the behest of Oliver North.

One of Kamel Adham's close contacts, Adnan Khashoggi, is among the richest men in the world. Khashoggi was the arms merchant at the centre of the whole Iran-Contra scandal, and a long-time friend of the bin Laden family.

https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...t=10#p5012


Adnan Khashoggi has also been named a business partner of Mohammed Sacirbey (and the widow of Prince Friso, Mabel) in arming Bosnian Muslims: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...6286#p6286


Khashoggi was also close to one-time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

There is an even closer connection between Manafort and Khashoggi through his representative in Spain - Abdul Rahman Al Assir from Lebanon. Al Assir was once brother-in-law of Adnan Khashoggi. He arranged big weapons sales to African armies.
The London-based Sourakia once wrote:

The miracle of Al Assir is that he will have lunch with Don Juan Carlos [king of Spain], dinner with Hassan II [king of Morocco], and breakfast the next day with Felipe González [prime minister of Spain].

In the late 1980s, Manafort became friends with Al Assir. In 1989, Manafort took Al Assir as his guest to George H.W. Bush’s inauguration.

https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtop...5274#p5274


It is no secret that Donald Trump has boasted on buying the world’s “greatest yacht” from Adnan Khashoggi.

A bit more difficult to find is that Adnan Khashoggi was also at Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples in New York on 20 December 1993: http://web.archive.org/web/2013061611570...aples.html



Donald Trump has also tried, but failed, to set up Members Service Corporation.
In early 1994, Donald Trump involved Adnan Khashoggi in setting this up: https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/news/do...h-10266479
(http://archive.is/iYNSI)


Adnan Khashoggi’s lieutenant Ramy El-Batrawi said he introduced Donald Trump to Adnan Khashoggi Olympic Towers in New York in the early 1990s.

See Ivanka Trump with Ramy El-Batrawi (second from right) at an event hosted by former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling


El-Batrawi was also in business with Trump’s friend, the billionaire Carl Icahn.

See 4 photos of El-Batrawi with the rich and famous.
In the picture with Trump, El-Batrawi is in the back right.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/yayyo-ipo...=true&r=US
(http://archive.is/ktsul)