Great find!
It gets greater. Before Nix went to sleep we looked a little at the Fatemi connection.
Seems there is a whole Fatemi branch of the Byrdies. So this old KKK kingpin has a two-generation Arab side to the family tree :).
Mohammad Fatemi is into oil. His sons seems well connected in the military establishment. Just an example from Fredrik Fatemi's background:
Laser systems : Nd:YAG, excimer, and tunable OPO pulsed laser systems
He seems to have done a stint at Naval Research Laboratory.
Much more here.