The Aga Khan, who owned a big...
The Aga Khan, who owned a big stake in the $15 million racehorse Shergar, said he believed that Irish Republican Army guerrillas kidnapped it last year.
The Aga Khan, one of the richest men in the world, said in a television interview in London that the IRA snatched the horse in the hope of gaining a fat ransom. It was never seen again after armed men bundled it into a horse trailer west of Dublin in February, 1983.
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