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Mohammed Samir Ferrat, a wealthy Algerian businessman and financier. Good background.
This page on TWA 800 is more complete.
This page has quite a bit of info on Ferrat and his relationship with Ron Brown, including:
Samir Ferrat aparenntly first met Ron Brown in the Ivory Coast on a previous trade mission. Ferrat's Swiss-based finance firm SOFINSA invested $92 million into a building project in the Ivory Coast with Chadwick International, a modular home builder based in Fairfax, VA. Chadwick had a special arrangement with the US Export-Import bank which guaranteed 85% of its sales to third-wolrd countries. Ferrat, Ron Brown and the two founders of Chadwick, George S. Henderson (President) and Ronald M. Nocera (CEO) were photographed together in the Ivory Coast in February of 1996. The full extent of Ferrat's relationship with Brown is unknown, however he was close enough to Brown to offer his son condolences after the crash in Dubrovnik.
There is much that smacks of suspicious relationships. There are some that consider Ferrat as an Arkancide.