Billionaire Saudi banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, best known in Britain for a series of libel suits and legal threats against reporters and authors who connected his businesses with terror funding, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
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Khalid bin Mahfouz dead at 60
Billionaire Saudi banker Khalid bin Mahfouz, best known in Britain for a series of libel suits and legal threats against reporters and authors who connected his businesses with terror funding, has died of a heart attack at the age of 60. Read more here Read Index on Censorship’s report on bin Mahfouz, The True Cost […]
03 Sep 09
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