Le Cercle/1990 (Muscat)

Le Cercle/1990 (Muscat)(Le Cercle/Meeting)
Date	28 November 1990 - 1 December 1990
Location	Al Bustan Hotel & Al-Baraka Palace, Muscat, Oman
Description	A Cercle Meeting in Muscat, Oman.
Participants	Jonathan Aitken, Julian Amery, Andrew Cavendish, Paul Channon, Alan Clark, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Norman Schwarzkopf, Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, Omar al-Zawawi

Le Cercle met in Muscat, Oman in 1990.

Attendees

Attendees included

Jonathan Aitken (Minister of Defence procurement)
Alan Clark (Minister of State for Defence)
Julian Amery (joint Chairman)
Qaboos bin Said al Said (Ruler of Oman)
US General Norman Schwarzkopf
Paul Channon (former secretary of State at the Dept. of Trade & Industry)
"the Head of the Dutch Secret Service" (probably Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, since he was at that time AIVD/Director General)
An unnamed French Naval Admiral plus other serving or former intelligence operatives and VIPs.^[1]

Aitken, Clarke and Channon have all been heavily implicated in the Arms to Iraq affair examined by Lord Justice Richard Scott.^[1]

Alan Clark mentioned the meeting^[2] and it was also documented in Julian Amery' papers.

All 9 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Jonathan Aitken	UK deep politician, Cercle chair, convicted perjurer
Julian Amery	MI6, deep politician who chaired Le Cercle for several years.
Andrew Cavendish	Clermont Set member who attended a meeting of Le Cercle in Oman in 1990
Paul Channon	US-born UK politician who attended and was involved in the Arms-to-Iraq deal together with fellow Cercle members Jonathan Aitken and Alan Clark.
Alan Clark	Bullingdon Club, Le Cercle, Minister for Defence Procurement...
Arthur Docters van Leeuwen	Former AIVD Director, Attorneys General chairman (a position he quit after Winnie Sorgdrager wanted to prosecute one of the attorneys his friends for pedo-activities), former chairman Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets, former inspector for government finances at Ministry of Finance, big investor in seized Libyan Oil companies after the 2011 Attacks on Libya. One time Bilderberg.
Qaboos bin Said al Said	Assumed power after overthrowing his father, Said bin Taimur, in a palace coup in 1970, with the help of the SAS.
Norman Schwarzkopf	As CENTCOM commander led 1990-91 Gulf War; Le Cercle
Omar al-Zawawi	One one of the wealthiest private individuals in the Middle East. Foreign advisor to puppet leader Qaboos bin Said

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