Saudi businessman Adnan Khashoggi, an Oliver North intermediary in Iran-contra, surface yet again, this time in connection with Huffman Aviation, training camp for Mohammed Atta's suicide-cult cell ... Decades before burning skyscrapers, codified torture, secret trials and mass detentions, there was Barrick Gold, a mining concern in Canada with roots in the American intelligence establishment. It is fitting that gold, the seductive but dead heart of world finance, should christen a story about the most unconscionable act in Wall Street history: 911. Barrick’s incorporation is obscure. Most accounts claim that the firm was founded by Peter Munk, a former radio...