OCTOBER 31, 2007 : (EGYPT : AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO ANNOUNCES THE LAUNCH OF IRAQI BILLIONAIRE NADHIM AUCHI {NADHMI AUCHI, see LUXEMBOURG, UK} FELLOWSHIP --See OBAMA, ANTOIN "TONY" REZCO, CHICAGO, "ARAB SPRING?") - the american university in Cairo (auc) has announced the launch of 'Nadhmi Auchi fellowship for young arab leaders', a fellowship dedicated ... ---------auchi launches fellowship for young arab leaders Middle East Online, October 31, 2007 London & cairo
From the Wikipedia entry on this fellow. A lot of dirt that oddly didn't get into this article: Nadhmi Auchi (Arabic:???? ????) is a British billionaire businessman who was born in Iraq. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2007 ranking of the wealthiest people in the UK he was placed 18th with an estimated fortune of £1,995 million.[1]
Nadhmi Auchi was charged along with Saddam Hussein for conspiring to assassinate Iraqi President Abdul-Karim Qasim in 1959. Qasim was injured while his bodyguard was killed; Saddam managed to flee the country. Auchi was arrested for delivering weapons to the assassins but was later pardoned by President Qasim.
Nadhmi Auchi graduated in Economics and Political Science from the Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad in 1967. He also worked with the Iraqi Ministry of Oil, becoming Director of Planning and Development. In 1979 he founded General Mediterranean Holding SA of Luxembourg. From 1996-2000 he served on an advisory committee to the Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has been president of the Anglo-Arab Organisation since its founding in 2002.
4 posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 9:43:24 PM by Cicero
Mr. Auchi was a leading supplier of arms to Saddam’s regime. A former Belgian ambassador to Luxembourg charged that a bank in Luxembourg owned principally by Mr. Auchi laundered funds — including oil for food money — for Saddam and other Islamic dictators.------http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/who_is_nadhmi_auchi_and_whats.html 9 posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:49:58 AM by Fred Nerks
“Nadhmi Auchi was viewed with a lot of suspicion by the Iraqi opposition to Saddam Hussein’s regime, regarding him as a front-man for Saddam’s intelligence service.[4] Auchi was involved in several multi-billion dollar business deals in the post-Saddam era too, such as the Orascom mobile phone network (IraqNa), and at least one power generation contract involving Bill Clinton and Iraq’s former Minister of Electricity, Aiham Alsamarrae, who has been convicted over corruption charges in Iraq and is now living in Chicago.”-------Wikipedia 6 posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 4:47:26 PM by Califelephant | To 5 |
DECEMBER 2007 : (AL QAEDA’S LIBYAN JIHADIS ARE FLOWING INTO IN IRAQ ) Al Qaida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq (U.S. Military Academy Study Based on Captured Documents from IraqAl Qaida’s Foreign Fighters in Iraq http://www.ctc.usma.edu/harmony/pdf/CTCForeignFighter.19.Dec07.pdf
OK, way too complicated. You have to be succinct at this time of night.