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| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 12:22:27
US Justice department to investigate claims of fraudulent wrong-doings
quote:
The announcement comes six months after Britain's Serious Fraud Office abruptly halted a fraud inquiry into the so-called Yamamah weapons deal of 1985, under which BAE agreed to supply Tornado jets and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia.
Continuing that inquiry would have threatened thousands of British jobs and affected diplomatic and intelligence ties with Saudi Arabia, a principal ally, the British government argued in December.
here |
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| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 21:49:45
So is stoning people for adultery ... doesn't mean we would want it done here regularly. |
| Daveb |
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 21:10:16
Bungs and bribes are seen as required business procedure in some areas of the world.
We should not be surprised.
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| nightbird |
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 14:20:31
quote:
Originally posted by Miriam Binder
Well, there is no love lost between Tony and Brown that's for sure but ... yeah, on second thoughts it is just the sort of underhanded malicious thing that would suit TB down to the ground.
How did Tony come to power?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/12/newsid_2550000/2550803.stm
Starting a conspiracy theory here 
Watch your back Brown
http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2007/04/norman-baker-was-robin-cook-murdered.html |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 14:16:32
Well, there is no love lost between Tony and Brown that's for sure but ... yeah, on second thoughts it is just the sort of underhanded malicious thing that would suit TB down to the ground. |
| nightbird |
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 14:08:12
Probably to cause Brown as much aggravation as possible, remember their "ethical foreign policy" what ever happend to that.....
How many died while out walking, Labour seems to have had its fair share
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4127654.stm |
| Miriam Binder |
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 13:53:59
I couldn't help but wonder whether Tony's departure as PM and his brown-nosing of Shrubby has something to do with this. |
| nightbird |
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 13:32:51
Case of the pot calling the kettle black me thinks......
http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1991/C231.html |
