Sarkis Soghanalian
Sarkis Garabed Soghanalian (Armenian: Սարգիս Կարապետ Սողանալեան; February 6, 1929 – October 5, 2011), nicknamed the Merchant of Death, was a Syrian-Lebanese-Armenian 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 was contracted by the Central Intelligence Agency to sell arms to help Iraq during the Iran–Iraq War.