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To: hoosiermama

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/7931922/Michelle-Obama-visits-Ronda.html

Michelle Obama visits Ronda
Michelle Obama followed in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway and Orson Welles when she paid a visit to Spain’s oldest bullring, the Plaza de Toros in Ronda, a picturesque town in the hills above the Costa del Sol.

By Fiona Govan in Marbella

3:04PM BST 07 Aug 2010

EXCERPT

One name on the (Starlite Gala) guest list that could raise a few eyebrows among US diplomatic circles is Adnan Khashoggi.

The Saudi Arabian businessman, 75, who made his name as an arms dealer in the 1980s, was linked to the Iran-Contra scandal in which the Reagan administration allegedly sanctioned the sale of weapons to Iran in breach of an international arms embargo.


69 posted on 08/04/2013 10:58:12 AM PDT by maggief
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To: maggief

Thanks thats it. Wonder if the ol S A is still around?


71 posted on 08/04/2013 11:31:51 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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