Saudi prince 'received arms cash'
This prince was Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the US for over 20 years! He has been accused lately (along with other elements of the Lebanese unconstitutional government and the US of course) of funding Sunni militant groups and namely Fatah al Islam that is currently stirring trouble in Lebanon... Is this coincidental? No chance. The ultimate aim is to target Hezbollah, the Shia resistance force that stood up to Israel last summer and that wants to liberate all the occupied Palestinian lands. The ultimate aim is to eradicate anything that constitutes a threat to Israel.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6728773.stm
Saudi prince 'received arms cash'
A Saudi prince who negotiated a £40bn arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia received secret payments for over a decade, a BBC probe has found.
Arms deals with the Saudis have been worth billions to the UK
The UK's biggest arms dealer, BAE Systems, paid hundreds of millions of pounds to the ex-Saudi ambassador to the US, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
The payments were made with the full knowledge of the Ministry of Defence.
Prince Bandar would not comment on the investigation and BAE Systems said it acted lawfully at all times.
The MoD said information about the Al Yamamah deal was confidential.
Sir Raymond Lygo, a former chief executive of BAE, told the BBC's World Business Report that there had been "nothing untoward" about the arms deal.
"I was the one who won the contract," he said. "I don't know anything about him (the prince) at all. I would have remembered that name."
When asked about the secret payments, Sir Lygo said that it was not going on when the deal was signed.
"I would have known if it was going on at the time. I was not aware of it, so as far as I am concerned it was not occuring.
"Yes, we paid agents. Nothing illegal about that. It was absolutely in accordance with the law at the time... there was nothing untoward about the deal whatsoever."
Private plane
The investigation found that up to £120m a year was sent by BAE Systems from the UK into two Saudi embassy accounts in Washington.
The BBC's Panorama programme has established that these accounts were actually a conduit to Prince Bandar for his role in the 1985 deal to sell more than 100 warplanes to Saudi Arabia.
The purpose of one of the accounts was to pay the expenses of the prince's private Airbus.
David Caruso, an investigator who worked for the American bank where the accounts were held, said Prince Bandar had been taking money for his own personal use out of accounts that seemed to belong to his government.
He said: "There wasn't a distinction between the accounts of the embassy, or official government accounts as we would call them, and the accounts of the royal family."
Mr Caruso said he understood this had been going on for "years and years".
"Hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars were involved," he added.
Investigation stopped
According to Panorama's sources, the payments were written into the arms deal contract in secret annexes, described as "support services".
They were authorised on a quarterly basis by the MoD.
It remains unclear whether the payments were actually illegal - a point which depends in part on whether they continued after 2001, when the UK made bribery of foreign officials an offence.
The payments were discovered during a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) investigation.
Prince Bandar was Saudi ambassador to the US for 20 years
The SFO inquiry into the Al Yamamah deal was stopped in December 2006 by attorney general Lord Goldsmith.
Prime Minister Tony Blair declined to comment on the Panorama allegations.
But he said that if the SFO investigation into BAE had not been dropped, it would have led to "the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship and the loss of thousands of British jobs".
Prince Bandar, who is the son of the Saudi defence minister, served for 20 years as US ambassador and is now head of the country's national security council.
Panorama reporter Jane Corbin explained that the payments were Saudi public money, channelled through BAE and the MoD, back to the Prince.
The SFO had been trying to establish whether they were illegal when the investigation was stopped, she added.
She believed the payments would thrust the issue back into the public domain and raise a number of questions.
'Bad for business'
Labour MP Roger Berry, head of the House of Commons committee which investigates strategic export controls, told the BBC that the allegations must be properly investigated.
If there was evidence of bribery or corruption in arms deals since 2001 - when the UK signed the OECD's Anti-Bribery Convention - then that would be a criminal offence, he said.
He added: "It's bad for British business, apart from anything else, if allegations of bribery popping around aren't investigated."
Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable said that if ministers in either the present or previous governments were involved there should be a "major parliamentary inquiry".
"It seems to me very clear that this issue has got to be re-opened," Mr Cable told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight.
"It is one thing for a company to have engaged in alleged corruption overseas. It is another thing if British government ministers have approved it."
Panorama will be broadcast on Monday 11 June 2007 2030 BST
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"Money" has no value - people do.
in the name of ALLAH the Maker
Once again,the Bullshit BroadCasting Company(BBC),has shown its journalistc heroism and divulged one of the most secretful crimes of the world!
Everybody knows that Saudi Family(The wrath of Allah the Great upon them) take bribes. But why must it be announced publicly?
These fighter jets despite their high prices are only some metal craps ,capable only of being used for oppressing bare handed people. They have shown no good results in recent wars. In fact the whole eurofighters are only toys in todays missle driven combats.
The ones who have taken bribes are UK govenment.For what service?
They took bribes to set oil prices higher and higher,to maintain their support of the criminal ,oppressive tyrant leaders of Hijaz. In order to decriminalize their bribery,they perform it under disguise of Arms dealing. Everybody know that this arms will be totaly useless in front of Talmudistanis or US warships or even Iran. Remeber the uselessness of imported weapons of Iraq. Do you know that when US attacked Iran's oil terminals in 1988 what they did to Shah's imported marine defense systems? They send a signal and locked all RADARs!
I think the reason BBC which is officially run by MI5 is talking about these deals , is the same reason that the movie of "Lawrence of Arabia" have been made. That is to say to Wahhabis that: Do not think that you are anything more than our dogs.obey us or no gun to suppress your enemies!
Allah is the Conquerer.
Allah_is_the_Great, I totally agree with you. Actually the most interesting part of the story is the fact the it was "leaked"... in a well known, very long detailed program on the radio. What an amazing "leak"...
propaganda to threaten the house of Saud to stay in line, as well as to shift blame for the Fatah Al-Islam mess away from the zionists who fund it, and onto their Arabian proxy, because they are dependent on the devil.
because its ruling dynasty is a portent of the last hour and because they are part of the Antichrist horn (Dajjal). The Prophet of Islam (peace be upon him) did not want even to pray for their salvation because God informed him that these people will work for the Dajjal the great deceiver and enemy of mankind. Saudi regime will be destroyed but not by the west or Zionists who installed it in the first place. It will fall as a first Dajjalist regime in Arab world. To cleanse the ailing body of the Muslim world you need to clean its heart first and the heart of Muslim nation is in Arabia with its two main chambers Makkah and Madina. If you look at Arabian peninsula you will see resemblance of the heart.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/images/ency/fullsize/19612.jpg
"The heart consists of four chambers in which blood flows. Blood enters the right atrium (Jerusalem, thus Zionist blockage) and passes through the right ventricle. The right ventricle (Madina) pumps the blood to the lungs where it becomes oxygenated (by the Madinas blessings). The oxygenated blood is brought back to the heart by the pulmonary veins which enter the left atrium (Yemen, thus Zionist degeneration of that crucial country). From the left atrium blood flows into the left ventricle (Makkah). The left ventricle pumps the blood to the aorta which will distribute the oxygenated blood to all parts of the body (Makkah is not supplying oxygenated blood, thus the serious illness of the world)."
Jerusalem is the inlet of Divine support therefore Prophet's ascension to heaven went back to the Origin from Makkah to Jerusalem and up to Heaven. If you follow above mechanism carefully you will discover amazing importance of the Middle East for the rest of the Earth (Body). To go back to the first statement about Saudis demise, there will come force from the East to unblock the clogged heart in Arabia. Something weird will happen in that war for the heart for Prophet mentioned some never seen before type of warfare. Pay attention to Uzbekistan and surrounding area because that force will come from there. It might be surprise to everyone when that happens. Muslim Imam will start cleanup of the area surrounding Arabia when Antichrist will try to salvage its already crumbling dream of reigning the world forever. He will come to face Muslim army in Damascus (superior vena cava) hoping to create blockage in inlet part of the heart but then arch immune defense warrior (Jesus) will descend into a heart's theater deliver a final blow to killer virus (Dajjal) who will run from Syria to Jerusalem where he will destroyed by the power of the spirit of Jesus. Its actually funny this whole affair about the arms sales to Saudis. The Zionist demon possessing the heart of the Middle Earth is in some extremely hard contradiction. It wants to destroy the heart but in the same time it needs it until the end and thus its trying to protect it with everything it has. They will never give any Muslim nation an effective weapon for self defense because they fear possible rebellion when such weapons would be used against them. You would be astonished to find out how much hard work was put into subduing Muslim civilization and still they could not succeed completely. Still they are afraid even of the secularist Muslims which they use as allies against religious ones. Turkey is best example of that still being unacceptable to EU membership not because of its human rights violations but because of its main religion. Don't misunderstand this as Christian EU versus Muslim Turkey. No its Zionist perversion of Christianity versus Islam. Monotheism of Christianity was hijacked by "trinitarian" Illuminati forces before it would become state religion of Roman empire. God has ordained monotheism from the time of Adam but Satan responded with constant inventions of corrupted monotheism called polytheism and finally new age atheism. Movie is almost concluded, final clash of the main characters is just behind the horizon.
"Let there be Light!"
You have quite a hypnotizing and rather soothing way of writing. Very nice. I am a Muslim, but I am not familiar with some of the things you say. Getting rid of Saudi Arabia would be nice indeed…, but what do you think lies in the near future for Israel?? In the long term I see Israel disappearing due to many factors whether it likes it or not…, but in the short term… any ideas?
April 29, 2007
The Honeymoon is Over: Saudi Arabia files for Divorce
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_saudi_arabia.html
“The problem is that [Prince] Bandar has been pursuing a policy that was music to the ears of the Bush administration, but was not what King Abdullah had in mind at all,” said Martin S. Indyk, a former United States ambassador to Israel who is now head of the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center for Middle East Policy.
Israel has worked to find a way to derail Saudi Arabia's influence in the US. Saudi Arabia has oil, a product the US needs in abundance, and Israel does not. Saudi Arabia reinvests their oil money in the US and Israel does not. Saudi Arabia pours billions into our economy, Israel sucks billions out.
Israel, unable to match the economic power of Saudi Arabia, has tried to find a way to wreck the relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia, which is why Rahm Emmanual had his brother, Ari Emmanual, who happens to be Michael Moore's agent, arrange for Fahrenheit 911 to lay the blame for the WTC attack on Saudi Arabia. This is an old Israeli trick, as typified in the Lavon Affair; to attack your friend and frame your enemy for it.
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So israel WHINES once more.
Many times the zionists will say how Saudi Arabia has all the oil and
What they will not tell you is that Zionists are much wealthier than the Elite Saudis.
Why whine? The money Saudi Arabia invests [gives back the the USA] - a good chunk of it ends up in israel.
The Zionists know this. But they will never tell you.
I just want to say that I am clearly aware that this is the title of Q's blog from many weeks past. The link in the above post actually links back to her post.