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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-16-07 09:24 PM
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Diplomatic clash looms with US over BAE arms sale investigation
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/foreignaffairs/story/0,,2127193,00.html

UK asked to hand over secret payments evidence
· Refusal could endanger sharing of intelligence

David Leigh
Monday July 16, 2007
The Guardian

A potential diplomatic collision with the US is looming over the corruption allegations against the arms company BAE. The department of justice in Washington has formally demanded that Britain hand over all evidence of secret payments the company made to members of the Saudi royal family to secure huge arms deals.

The department has taken over the corruption investigation after British prosecutors were forced by the then prime minister, Tony Blair, to halt it late last year on alleged grounds of national security.
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this is rather fascinating its almost as Saudis are quite the behind the scenes
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-16-07 09:29 PM
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1. For those that still don't realize what BAE is about here is some history
from John Young's cryptome.org archives-April 2002.

"The Soiled Dove II: A Report"
http://cryptome.org/soil/soiled-dove2.htm
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-17-07 03:56 PM
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