He said he had personally requested meetings with Australia, Poland, Canada and India.
The aide said Mr. bin Laden had personally requested that the man, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, become one of his bodyguards.
"How amazing is that?" said Jon Tibbs, a bid consultant now working with the Sochi Games, adding that Putin personally requested the seating arrangement.
In 2008, as the world financial crisis hit, former US president George W Bush personally requested Abdullah to cut prices, and was flatly rebuffed.
She sent a two-page letter to her neighbors appealing to them to offer their stoops, and her friend, Antonia Belt, took the pictures the neighbors personally requested.
And Another Thing… by Colfer, whose involvement with the project was personally requested by Belson, will be published next October by Penguin.
It detailed how a pool was justified in official documents as "firefighting" equipment, and how Zuma personally requested changes to the design of bullet-proof windows.
Jane Belson, his widow, personally requested that Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl books, take on the challenge of picking up the story.
Mr. Murray, the chief executive of Murray Energy Corporation, personally requested the rollback of the mercury rule soon after Mr. Trump took office.
John Glenn personally requested that Johnson hand-verify all the trajectory calculations rendered by NASA's fancy new electronic computers for his 1962 mission to orbit Earth.
Furthermore, he has been personally requested by high-ranking government officials to make a security needs assessment in Haiti, as well as to evaluate detainee facilities in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
