![]() And it also takes us back to a time when the modern Arab world had just begun to invent itself, and seemed a great deal more exotic, and perhaps more seductive, than it does now. It echoes violent conflicts-and potential conflicts of interest-that are with us to this day. Still, at this moment when the American president has climbed deeply into bed with Saudi Arabia amid talk of deals, deals, deals, Khashoggi’s story has a particular fascination. But the bling had long since faded the sales are dwarfed by today's transactions in the global arms bazaar, now counted in the hundreds of billions, not millions of dollars. ![]() Thirty years ago, the Saudi businessman was famous for over-the top extravagance-in some ways a model for Donald Trump's binges of bling-and he was infamous as a broker of huge arms deals. ![]() ![]() PARIS-When Adnan "The Pirate" Khashoggi died last week at the age of 81, he was a man who had outlived his myth. ![]()
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