Hassan Kamal person
also: General Kamal Hassan Ali, Kamal, Kamal Adom
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Hassan Kamal book_quoted
“I guess that's what you get when you deal with convicted felons. Defense Minister Kerala warned Sarkis that Bull had had several meetings with Hassan Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and enforcer. Bull was trying to sell Kamal on a scheme…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 13:06
Hassan Kamal carried_out_attack
Ahmed Khaled al-Rawi book_quoted
“Apparently, that is exactly what Saddam feared because he finds out that they want Kerala as his replacement. With the war against Iran going well and the U.S. now firmly in his pocket, Saddam gave the order and Kamal made certain it was ca…”
▶ The Colonels corner prelude to terror chapter 32 @ 30:12
Capucci recruited
Hassan Kamal book_quoted
“To Livingstone, Capucci was nearly senile and didn't seem to know what was going on. Capucci's only value to the operation was that he had rescued an Egyptian from Gaddafi's overthrow of King Idris, who rose to the highest ranks under Sadat…”
▶ Operation Gladio- Prelude to Terror Chap 19 @ 22:11
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who had acted as the chief financial advisor to the king. So he had rescued somebody. He has a great reputation, and he was good to be used as kind of a front guy. The Egyptian that was smuggled out was General Kamal Hassan Ali. He ended up…
▶ 13:06
I guess that's what you get when you deal with convicted felons. Defense Minister Kerala warned Sarkis that Bull had had several meetings with Hassan Kamal, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law and enforcer. Bull was trying to sell Kamal on a scheme…
▶ 13:34
had made no progress on the job that he had been hired to do, which was modifying the artillery. Instead, he had spent the millions of dollars the defense ministry had given him to modify Scud missiles with new extended second stages and on…
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of losing a war with Iran because it did not have enough conventional artillery to stave off a massive human wave attack, this was unacceptable. Sarkis confronted Bull. I told him that he was playing a very dangerous game, going around the …
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and removed him from Iraq. Hassan Kamal was furious when he found out, and Sarkis' friend Krala felt the pressure. Meanwhile, Saddam's tailor, the guy that started the whole thing, and go-between, was pressing Sarkis for his commission. Sar…
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Sarkis understood that U.S. authorities did not want to be publicly associated with the murderous regime. Some of Hassan Kamal's cleanup operations for Saddam had Kerry's CIA staff concerned. Shortly after Saddam's predecessor, President Al…
▶ 17:20
surveillance of Sarkis and his family on a 24-hour basis. He did the same with Kraywala. He was convinced we were both U.S. spies, but they were clumsy and we found out about it, Sarkis said. As much as Hassan Kamal came to detest Sarkis, t…
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I was worried that some people in Washington was working directly with Kamal. Sarkis dismissed my concerns at the time. I warned him that the U.S. had used him to open the door. Once he did that, he would not be needed. Sarkis believed that…
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he brought into Iraq, were late in paying him. The lack of cash flow caused him to miss delivery dates. In the process of handling hundreds of millions of dollars in arms sales, Sarkis made mistakes at a time when Hassan Kamal's agents were…
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The heat got turned up. But just as Hassan was going to move against Sarkis, the American embassy sent word that President Reagan was dispatching a personal friend as an envoy to see Saddam Hussein. Two days before Christmas in 1983, Donald…
▶ 24:41
But the very fact that the war was going better for Iraq led global consultants to increase the pressure on Sarkis. Mitchell wrote him in August 1985 demanding a 2% fee on the $27 million Hughes helicopter contract. For Sarkis, finding ways…
▶ 27:20
was still demanding commissions on some of the earlier deals. He just refused to pay him. He would not even consider it. I think he thought it was a shakedown. In 1987, Sarkis learned that Hassan Kamal had brought Jerry Bull back into the c…
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I told him whatever it was, it was not real, Sarkis said. Crayola showed Sarkis some CIA satellite pictures of the project. The photographs look like a ski lift under construction. Sarkis said, I told Kamal that there was a lot of money bei…
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By 1988, Sarkis understood that things were changing in Iraq and that he was being sued by Mitchell and Brennan for lost commissions on the uniform deal. Hassan Kamal had begun, with the CIA's cooperation, to bring rivals like Chilean clust…
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I later learned that Herod Keabalian, the tailor, orchestrated it all. He told me years later that they were all laughing at us as we went from ministry to ministry trying to stop the inevitable. It was too late for Sarkis to pay him. They …
▶ 29:42
and had begun working directly with the Bush operation. That's Vice President Bush. But the CIA's main hope for the change in Iraq was not Kamal, but Kraywalla. The popular defense minister, King Jordan, had kept in constant contact with Kr…
▶ 30:12
Apparently, that is exactly what Saddam feared because he finds out that they want Kerala as his replacement. With the war against Iran going well and the U.S. now firmly in his pocket, Saddam gave the order and Kamal made certain it was ca…
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through various branches of BCCI. That Congressman Gonzalez was investigating all of this. Sarkis also learned that the close relationship between Gerald Bull and Hassan Kamal had fallen apart when Bull's super gun project failed to produce…
▶ 36:33
Sarkis and other arms dealers who dealt with Israel were told about the super gun in great detail. Sarkis is coy when he's asked if he handed the information over to Israel. If you're asking me if I fingered Bull to the Israelis, the answer…