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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, December 18, 2006

The Saudi leverage

This is around the BAE slush fund investigation, but take a minute to notice that the Saudis are now using their position of "access" as a bartering chip.
A British investigation into a controversial arms deal with Saudi Arabia was stopped because Riyadh threatened to withdraw all co-operation on security and intelligence, a newspaper has reported.


The British have been hit by terrorists, so, this isn't just some play threat.

2 Comments:

  • Frightning.

    Geo-politics really is little more than a syndication of legitimized crime families, to a greater or lesser degree.

    By Blogger -epm, at 12:56 PM  

  • Yeah. And we were the feared godfather before we proved our weakness in Iraq.

    Now, all the other families want a bigger slice.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 3:54 PM  

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