George Nader was a very effective under-the-radar operator in the peace process

The White House, George Nader's lawyer and the special counsel's office declined to comment. The Embassy for the United Arab Emirates did not respond to requests for comment.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, George Nader was the president and editor of a magazine called Middle East Insight.

While many in his field assumed his role as a magazine editor helped him create inroads with prominent leaders abroad, they still had little insight into how George Nader'd built such an unusual rolodex.

While on the Red Sea excursion, George Nader proposed the new grouping of countries could replace the GCC and Arab League, MEE quoted two unidentified sources familiar with the meeting as saying.

Working with Ronald S. Lauder, the American cosmetics magnate and prominent donor to Jewish causes, Mr. George Nader shuttled between Damascus and Jerusalem, using his contacts in both capitals to try to negotiate a truce.

“Because of his reputation for fairness and his remarkable access to key political and business leaders throughout the region, George Nader has produced a magazine of distinction and high quality,” Rahall, D-W.Va.

“Because of his reputation for fairness and his remarkable access to key political and business leaders throughout the region, George Nader has produced a magazine of distinction and high quality,” Rahall, D-W.Va., said on Capitol Hill at the time.

“During the middle part of the last decade, Mr. George Nader appears to have spent most of his time in the Middle East, especially in Iraq after the 2003 invasion,” the Times report said. “He developed close ties to national security officials in the Bush White House.”

“George Nader always struck me as a person who really thought he should be in the eye of the storm trying to make things happen,” said Frederic Hof, a former top American diplomat who knew Mr. George Nader in the 1990s.

“In the 1990s, George Nader was a very effective under-the-radar operator in the peace process,” former U.S. ambassador to Israel Martin S. Indyk told the Times. “Then, he disappeared.”

“In the 1990s, George Nader was a very effective under-the-radar operator in the peace process,” said Martin S. Indyk, a former American ambassador to Israel and a member of a team put together by President Bill Clinton to negotiate peace deals between Israel and its neighbors. “Then, George Nader disappeared.”