Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Sarkis_Soghanalian> ?p ?o }
- Sarkis_Soghanalian abstract "Sarkis Garabet Soghanalian (Armenian: Սարգիս Սողանալեան; February 6, 1929 – October 5, 2011), nicknamed Merchant of Death, was an international private arms dealer who gained fame for being the \"Cold War's largest arms merchant\" and the lead seller of firearms and weaponry to the former government of Iraq under Saddam Hussein during the 1980s.Soghanalian, then a permanent resident living in Virginia Gardens, Florida, was hired on behalf of the Central Intelligence Agency to sell arms to help Iraq in the midst of the Iran–Iraq War. With the encouragement of the Reagan Administration and the backing of American intelligence agencies, he oversaw the transaction of several significant arms deals, including the sale of French-built artillery valued at $1.4 billion. Besides Iraq, he also sold weapons to groups such as the Polisario forces in Mauritania, the Phalange militia during the Lebanese Civil War, to Latin American countries such as Nicaragua, Ecuador, and to Argentina during the Falklands War. He extended his services to other regions of the world, including Africa. Prior to the beginning of the Persian Gulf War, Soghanalian appeared in several television interviews, explaining in detail the work he had done in Iraq, along with naming several top American government officials who were involved in the arms transactions.With this, the Justice Department charged Soghanalian for \"conspiracy of shipping unauthorized weapons\" to Iraq where he was found guilty and sentenced to jail. He was released several years later when he helped the Clinton administration unsuccessfully break up a counterfeiting ring in Lebanon. He moved his office from the United States and opened up operations in France and Jordan. In 2001, he was arrested once more by the US government on bank fraud charges but was released a year later after he revealed the weapons transactions deals were taking place between the CIA and Peru (which arguably resulted in the collapse of the Alberto Fujimori government).".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian birthDate "1929-02-06".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian birthName "Սարգիս Սողանալեան".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian birthPlace İskenderun.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian birthYear "1929".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian deathDate "2011-10-05".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian deathPlace Hialeah,_Florida.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian deathYear "2011".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian knownFor Arms_trafficking.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageExternalLink videoplay?docid=5006280376932590794.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageExternalLink search.asp?pageNumber=1&freqReqRecord=20100122.txt.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageID "10589657".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageLength "14096".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageOutDegree "102".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageRevisionID "704323534".
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink 1958_Lebanon_crisis.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink 1988_Armenian_earthquake.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink 60_Minutes.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink AK-47.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Alberto_Fujimori.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Amman.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Argentines.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Armenia.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Armenians.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Arms_trafficking.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Artillery.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Bank_fraud.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Beqaa_Valley.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Bulgaria.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Category:1929_births.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Category:2011_deaths.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_people_of_Armenian_descent.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Armenian_businesspeople.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Arms_traders.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Disease-related_deaths_in_Florida.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Syrian_Armenians.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Category:Syrian_emigrants_to_the_United_States.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Central_Intelligence_Agency.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Christian.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Cold_War.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Colombia.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Colonel.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Counterfeit.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Division_(military).
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink East_Germany.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Eastern_Bloc.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Ecuador.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink FARC.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Falklands_War.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink François_Mitterrand.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink French_Army.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink French_Mandate_for_Syria_and_the_Lebanon.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink George_H._W._Bush.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Gulf_War.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Gunship.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Hialeah,_Florida.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Howitzer.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Hughes_Helicopters.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Hungary.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink International_sanctions.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Iran.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Iran–Iraq_War.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Iraq.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink John_N._Mitchell.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Jordan.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Kataeb_Party.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Lebanese_Civil_War.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Lebanon.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Left-wing_politics.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Lockheed_C-130_Hercules.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Lord_of_War.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Mauritania.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Miami.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Mobutu_Sese_Seko.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Mother_Teresa.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Muammar_Gaddafi.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Nicaragua.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Peru.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Poland.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Polisario_Front.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Presidency_of_Bill_Clinton.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Presidency_of_Ronald_Reagan.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Richard_Nixon.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Rocket-propelled_grenade.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Saddam_Hussein.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Samuel_Cummings.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Self-propelled_artillery.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Small_arms.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink South_Africa.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Soviet_Union.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Spiro_Agnew.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Spitak.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Tank.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink United_Nations.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Congress.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink United_States_Department_of_Justice.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Virginia_Gardens,_Florida.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Vladimiro_Montesinos.
- Sarkis_Soghanalian wikiPageWikiLink Zaire.