The tag 'BAE' is associated with 5 posts.

FTR #625 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Behind-the-scenes machi­na­tions of Prince Ban­dar of Saudi Arabia—the for­mer Saudi ambas­sador to the United States.

BAE: secret papers reveal threats from Saudi prince

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ February 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

David Leigh and Rob Evans
THE GUARDIAN | THE BAE FILES
Saudi Arabia’s rulers threat­ened to make it eas­ier for ter­ror­ists to attack Lon­don unless cor­rup­tion inves­ti­ga­tions into their arms deals were halted, accord­ing to court doc­u­ments revealed yes­ter­day.
Pre­vi­ously secret files describe how inves­ti­ga­tors were told they faced “another 7/7″ and the loss of “British lives on British streets” [...]

BAE’s secret money machine

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ February 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

David Leigh and Rob Evans
THE GUARDIAN | THE BAE FILESIn the 1990s, the tem­per­a­ture started to get uncom­fort­ably hot for Britain’s arms sales­men.
For 30 years, Deso [pro­file] had fended off attempts to curb cor­rup­tion in the arms trade. But now the inter­na­tional cli­mate began to change.
In 1994 the OECD [pro­file] urged mem­ber coun­tries to put a [...]

FTR #601 You Gotta Be Kidding: 9/11 Update

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Mind-wrenching range of infor­ma­tion in con­junc­tion with the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic forces that pre­cip­i­tated 9/11.

Bandar and the $2 Billion Question

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ June 19, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

by Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosen­ball with Emily Flynn Ven­cat in Lon­donNEWSWEEK
Hun­dreds of pages of con­fi­den­tial U.S. bank records may be the miss­ing link in illu­mi­nat­ing new alle­ga­tions that a major British arms con­trac­tor fun­neled up to $2 bil­lion in ques­tion­able pay­ments to Saudi Prince Ban­dar bin Sul­tan. The BBC and Guardian news­pa­per reported last [...]

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