Posted on 11/30/2006 10:10:33 PM PST by xtinct
Saudi Arabia has given Britain 10 days to halt a fraud investigation into the country's arms trade - or lose a £10 billion Eurofighter contract.
The contract supports up to 50,000 British jobs and there are now fears that the deal may go to France.
The Saudi government is on the verge of cancelling the contract - an extension of one brokered by Margaret Thatcher 20 year ago - because of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into allegations of a slush fund for members of the Saudi royal family, according to authoritative sources.
Tony Blair has been told that the deal faces the axe in 10 days unless he intervenes to bring the two-year investigation to a close.
The Saudis are said to be "outraged" by the probe into the activities of companies linked to BAE Systems. The investigation concerns alleged illegal payments made to members of the Saudi royal family and their agents.
The Saudi government is on the verge of cancelling the contract
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God can take care of himself. I'm still pretty pissed about the 3,000 Americans the Saudi government helped murder.
I say let's invade Saudi Arabia for their oil and wipe them off the face of the earth-
Sounds like a plan to me.
then we'll offer the contract back to Britain-
We'll work out the split later. We can't leave the Aussies and the Poles out.
L
Yes God can, and He uses His people to carry out His plans- so the issue is still a go. They've insulted God, & seeing how muslims like to murder htose who insult muhammed, I thought we'd return the favor. But seriously- it may come to that in the very near future- Mahmouds letter to the U.S. was NOT sincere, it was a fulfilment of Muslim obligation to offer the enemy a chance to unconditionally surrender before all out war is raged- Mahmoud fulfilled his duty by writing that letter- you can guess what comes next- We'll HAVE to take the war to them if he carries out the next steps.
The Brits will cave. The planes will be sold.
My thought is that the Frogs were allowed to bid to keep the Brit price under control. I don't think the Frogs actually get along well with the Saudis. They have tried to screw the Saudis before and were hung out to dry.
Let the House of Saud buy from France. The frog-built planes will be that much easier to splash than the EF Typhoon.
It not extortion by any stretch of the imagination, its simple the way the House of Saud has always done defense contracts. The US plays this game better than anyone.
I am surprised we let the Brits in on the scam.
Read Sleeping with the Devil, How America sold its sole for Saudi Oil.
I like the way you think.
because Islam under the Sauds is a sick, sick ideology.
L
Yeah. You'll replace it with a Sunni Iran. A benevolent dictatorship is what they can manage best. Any popularly elected government would shake out along tribal lines and end up extreme.
Do you mean more extreme than:
Refusing to allow a single Christian church to be built in their country?
Confiscating any Bible brought into their country?
Refusing to allow jews into their country?
Openly calling for the destruction of Israel?
Funding Hamas?
Funding Hezbollah?
Refusing women the right to vote?
Refusing women the right to drive?
Stoning 'adulterers' to death?
Funding every single wahabbi mosque on the planet?
Do you mean more extreme than that?
L
French angle for Saudi billions(due to Brit's investigation on Saudi bribery)
Telegraph | 11/2706 | Helen Power and Sylvia Pfeifer
Posted on 11/27/2006 9:21:26 AM EST by TigerLikesRooster
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