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TIL about Adnan Khashoggi. A Saudi businessman, arms dealer implicated in the Iran–Contra affair, uncle to Dodi Fayed (killed in a car accident with Diana, Princess of Wales), and uncle to Jamal Khashoggi (assassinated in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul).

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