Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth manager missing

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-emirates-fund28-2010mar28,0,3343619.story

Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi missing

A glider carrying powerful finance official Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan, whom Forbes named the 27th-most powerful person in the world, crashed into a Morocco lake.

Reporting from Beirut - Rescuers searched a lake in Morocco on Saturday for the man who oversees one of the world's largest state-owned wealth funds after he disappeared in an air accident.

A glider carrying Ahmed bin Zayed al Nahyan, the managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, crashed Friday into the lake 20 miles southeast of the Moroccan capital, Rabat, state news agencies reported.

The glider's pilot was rescued and is in good condition, the reports said. But the search for Nahyan, whom Forbes named the 27th-most powerful person in the world last year, continued.

Abu Dhabi is the most influential and wealthy of the seven states that make up the United Arab Emirates. Nahyan, a member of the Emirates royal family, is the younger brother of Emirates President Khalifa bin Zayed al Nahyan.

The secretive wealth fund, established amid an oil boom in 1976, draws 70% of all surplus revenue from Abu Dhabi's petroleum sales, the rest going to a sister fund.

[aquart]

1. The pilot was rescued? But not the money manager?

And they haven't found a body?

[scarletwoman]

3. Nothing funny going on here, I'm sure. Let's move along...

[Liberal_in_LA]

5. lol

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. Weird story. They better check the fund he controlled.

[aquart]

6. Yah. First word in my mind was "audit."

[AnnieBW]

2. Things that make you go hmmmm....

Was the Mossad around?

[aquart]

7. What an absolutely scurrilous, vicious, biased, evidence-free implication.

WTF do they care about an Abu Dhabi money manager?

Think the Jews run around killing every Arab on the planet? That what you're trying to get us to believe?

OTOH, it's also a complete insult to the Arabs as well. Implying that nothing can happen to them unless the Jews do it for them.

That's a pretty all-embracing contempt of the Mid-East you've got there.

[AnnieBW]

10. Whoa, chill out!

I was only commenting about that alleged Mossad hit in Abu Dhabi not too long ago. Cool your jets. I'm not anti-Semitic. I'm just a cynic. I have a very cynical view of the Middle East, in that they've been killing each other over the same damn stretch of land for millennia, and nothing we do is gonna stop that. It sounds, at first blush, like the dude was "whacked".

[cbdo2007]

8. Doesn't sound like he's missing. Sounds like he's in the lake!

[Stanley4321]

9. h

that is some freaky stuff.