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A good read at how the Nayahn family is dividing and bribing their neighbors. And using cash stuffed into cheap Chinese rolling luggage to sort out contracts political allegiances. You can spot South African security contractors a mile away. lobelog.com/will-somalia-s… 
When the cash was grabbed off a Royal Air charter (owned by the Nayhans) and counted in Mogadishu it was $9.8m. When it finally arrived up north in Puntland to pay for training troops... it was $9.4m. The African heat can do that. garoweonline.com/en/news/somali…
Flashback: "Two of Prince’s men were ordered by Emirati security officials to meet at an Abu Dhabi intersection. (They) helped Prince’s men load the trunk of a Chevy Impala with more than half a dozen carry-on suitcases, most worn and with busted wheels." theintercept.com/2019/05/03/eri…
"roughly $13 million. For the first two weeks...the hotel room...served as the Reflex Responses vault....by the time R2...deposited the money, the room was covered in empty whiskey bottles and ashtrays overflowing with cigarette butts." #MercPimpinAintEasy
Actually to be exact when the Nayhan cash was first snagged it was estimated to be $14m and between the chartered jet and the airport was appropriately reduced to an amount that would not cause back injury to airport workers. That is $4.6m per suitcase or
Remember folks a million US in sequential banded Benjamins weighs 20 pounds. That's one 80's style pimp briefcase case full. But always demand a Halliburton cuz you always get to keep the suitcase.
And finally a well done deep dive on how UAE money perverts American foreign policy. nytimes.com/2019/06/02/wor…
