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
John Bredenkamp
Arms dealer
Andrew Chenge
Former Tanzanian Attorney General
Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly
Arms agent
John Murtha
‘The King of Pork’
Charlie Wilson
‘The King of Blowback’
Chuck Spinney
Pentagon insider and critic
Yoshio Kodama
aka ‘The Monster’
Adnan Khashoggi
Arms agent
Darleen Druyun
Convicted official
Randy Cunningham
Corrupt former Congressman
Efraim Diveroli
Gun runner
Erison Durdaj
Arms trade victim
Amir Ardebili
Iranian arms procurer
Manucher Ghorbanifar
Iranian arms dealer
Dale Stoffel
US arms adventurer
J.-C. Mitterrand
Angolagate beneficiary
Arcadi Gaydamak
Arms dealer
Pierre Falcone
Arms dealer