#SaudiArabia

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Abdullah Taha Bakhsh Jeddah investor who from 1987 held about 11 percent of Harken Energy, the Texas oil company of which George W. Bush was a director, through Netherlands Antilles companies.
Hassan Yassin Son of King Abdulaziz's adviser Youssef Yassin, cousin of Adnan Khashoggi and associate of Kamal Adham, who headed the Saudi Information Office in Washington from 1972 to 1981 and died in May 2026.
James A. Baker III Lawyer and Republican campaign manager who was Reagan's chief of staff and Treasury Secretary and Bush's Secretary of State, then Baker Botts senior partner, Carlyle senior counselor, Iraqi debt envoy and Iraq Study Group co-chair.
James R. Bath Houston aircraft broker and Texas Air National Guard pilot who acted as trustee for Salem bin Laden and Khalid bin Mahfouz, sat on Main Bank's board and invested in George W. Bush's Arbusto partnerships.
Jared Kushner Jared Kushner is an American investor and former senior advisor to President Donald Trump who shaped Middle East policy through the Abraham Accords and U.S.-Saudi arms sales, maintained a WhatsApp channel with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the CIA assessed as compromised, and received a $2 billion investment from the Saudi sovereign wealth fund for his private equity firm months after leaving government despite the fund's own due-diligence panel rejecting the deal.

National Commercial Bank Jeddah bank controlled by Khalid bin Mahfouz, with which BCCI concealed more than 500 million dollars of lending to its major customers, a practice auditors found continuing in 1990.

September 11 attacks Four al-Qaeda hijackings on September 11, 2001 killed 2,973 people; the record includes unshared CIA travel data on two hijackers, Saudi-linked contacts in California, and litigation against Saudi Arabia that reached a 2025 ruling.