Andrew Feinstein - The Shadow World

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To the memory of my mother

Erika Feinstein

19292009

To the memory of

Erison Durdaj

27 November 20004 April 2008

(and all who died at Gerdec)

To the memory of Joe Roeber,

anti-corruption campaigner

19332012

And in honour of the closet patriots, the whistle-blowers, who dare speak truth to power

Show me who makes a profit from war, and Ill show you how to stop the war

Henry Ford

Once a gun runner, always a gun runner.

Efraim Diveroli

Contents

Figures

Illustration Credits

Dramatis Personae

Basil Zaharoff: from H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934); Marcel Dassault: copyright Richard Melloul/Sygma/Corbis; Prince Bandar: copyright Alexander Natruskin/Reuters/Corbis; Richard Evans: copyright Nicolas Asfouri/Getty Images; Prince Turki: copyright Kamal Mustafa/epa/Corbis; Wafic Said: copyright Topham/PA, 2002; Joe der Hovsepian: photograph by courtesy of Joe der Hovsepian; Leonid Menin: copyright AFP/Getty Images; Charles Taylor: copyright Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images; Viktor Bout: copyright Saeed Khan/AFP/Getty Images; Monzer Al Kassar: copyright AFP/Getty Images; Helen Garlick: photograph reproduced with the permission of Helen Garlick; Robert Wardle: photograph by courtesy of Robert Wardle, from the collection of Robert Wardle; Richard Alderman: copyright Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images; Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki: copyright Guy Tillum/Reuters/Corbis; The Shaiks: copyright Beeld/Gallo Images/Getty Images; John Bredenkamp: copyright Desmond Kwande/AFP/Getty Images; Andrew Chenge: copyright Edwin Mjwahuzi; Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly: copyright Clemens Fabry; John Murtha: copyright Larry Downing/Reuters/Corbis; Charlie Wilson: copyright Fred Prouser/Reuters/Corbis; Chuck Spinney: photograph by courtesy of Chuck Spinney; Yoshio Kodama: copyright Bettmann/Corbis; Adnan Khashoggi: copyright Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images; Randy Cunningham: Mike Blake/Reuters/Corbis; Erison Durdaj: reproduced with the kind permission of Feruzan Durdaj; Manucher Ghorbanifar: copyright Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos; Dale Stoffel: from the collection of David J. Stoffel; Jean-Christophe Mitterrand: copyright Lionel Bonaventure/AFP/Getty Images; Arcadi Gaydamak: copyright Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images; Pierre Falcone: copyright Stphane Ruet/Sygma/Corbis.

Section titles

I: Basil Zaharoff: from H. C. Engelbrecht and F. C. Hanighen, Merchants of Death (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934); II: Joe der Hovsepian: photograph by courtesy of Joe der Hovsepian; III: Jacob Zuma and Thabo Mbeki: copyright Guy Tillum/Reuters/Corbis; IV: C-5 crash: photograph by courtesy of Lou Angeli, copyright Lou Angeli, 2006; V: Open-air arms market, Somalia: copyright Hannah Allam/MCT via Getty Images. VI: Erisons bicycle: reproduced with the kind permission of Feruzan Durdaj and Ardian Klosi.

Figures

Figure 3 image of Dr Idrissa Rashidi: copyright Edwin Mjwahuzi. Figures 7 and 8 by Mia Allers of Winter Design.

Dramatis Personae

Basil Zaharoff

Godfather of BAE

Marcel Dassault

French defence industry pioneer

Gerhard Mertins

Founder of Merex

Prince Bandar

Al Yamamah beneficiary

Richard Evans

Former BAE chairman

Wafic Said

Al Yamamah intermediary

Prince Turki Bin Nasser

Al Yamamah beneficiary

Joseph der Hovsepian

Merex arms dealer

Leonid Minin

Arms dealer

Charles Taylor

Dictator and arms agent

Viktor Bout

The Merchant of Death

Monzer Al-Kassar

Arms dealer

Robert Wardle

Former SFO Director

Helen Garlick

Former SFO investigator

Richard Alderman

Former SFO Director

Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma

South African Presidents

The Brothers Shaik

SA arms deal protagonists