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NEWS February 2008
US Courts lifts lid on Saudi terror threat claimKickstart for kicked-into-touch BAE kickback probe?
United Kingdom – headquartered BAE Systems faces the risk that a Serious Fraud Office investigation into its business dealings – said to have been personally halted in 2006 by Tony Blair citing “national security” concerns – might be reopened.
A civil lawsuit brought by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) and social justice umbrella organisation The Corner House is seeking to have the SFO investigation reopened. Their lawyers are using the judicial system to examine a range of previously secret or unreleased government documents, letters, and testimony.
Upsettingly for the Labour government, the house al-Saud and their chums among the deathmongers, the beard’n’sandal crowd are receiving an extremely sympathetic hearing from high court beaks.