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.
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.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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.
Where there's smoke there's BAE
Posted - 27/06/2007 : 12:22:27
