Steve Coll

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259 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Sep 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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Caleb.
And and there's this whole opaque transaction that ends up in a Saudi court where his shareholding is put into trust for the possible future in which he reconciles with the royal family.
So, like nothing is ever kind of hard and fast in that Saudi Arabia.
Today, Saudi Arabia is another another podcast, but in that Saudi Arabia, everything was always a little bit porous.
Where he gets into trouble is
Is when the Americans start to put pressure on the Sudanese government.
That's that's what starts to to change his circumstances.
I think he finessed the
pressure from the Saudi kingdom and even the loss of his citizenship and the loss of his the notional loss of his shareholding.
Uh there was a lot of cash flowing through these construction projects in Sudan.
I don't think the family wanted him to starve.
In any event he had his own income streams uh in Sudan.
Yes, he had businesses.
He had fundraising.
You know, he wasn't just a source of funds.
He was also a magnet for people who wanted to make charitable donations in causes that he espoused.
And so, you know, he had developed that fundraising network during the Afghan War, which was a righteous and politically approved cause, but he still had other people uh who supported him.
supported him.
Yeah, now we're sort of 95-ish, 1995 or so.
Foddle uh defects becomes a source of authentic inside information.
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