Seymour Hersh does some investigating into the Prince of Darkness, a.k.a. Richard Perle.
newyorker.com
<<< ... After the 1991 Gulf War, Bandar told me, Perle had been involved in an unsuccessful attempt to sell security systems to the Saudi government, “and this company does security systems.” (Perle confirmed that he had been on the board of a company that attempted to make such a sale but said he was not directly involved in the project.) “There is a split personality to Perle,” Bandar said. “Here he is, on the one hand, trying to make a hundred-million-dollar deal, and, on the other hand, there were elements of the appearance of blackmail - ‘If we get in business, he’ll back off on Saudi Arabia’ - as I have been informed by participants in the meeting.” ... >>>
<<< ... There is no question that Perle believes that removing Saddam from power is the right thing to do. At the same time, he has set up a company that may gain from a war. In doing so, he has given ammunition not only to the Saudis but to his other ideological opponents as well ... >>> |
