here's a story to play connect the dots with!

[eek]

from the Guardian


BAE wins £1bn Hawk contract

Wednesday September 3, 2003

BAE Systems, Britain's biggest weapons maker, today clinched a contentious £1bn order to supply Hawk training aircraft to India, in a contract for which Tony Blair personally lobbied.

The deal, in negotiation for more than a decade, has sparked much political contention in Britain.
(snip)

Critics have argued that the sale lays the British government open to charges of hypocrisy, as it was pushing for a big arms deal at the same time as playing peacemaker between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir.
ales to India and Pakistan, despite political tension between the two regional rivals.
(snip)
Ben Bradshaw, a Foreign Office minister, said at the time that there was no need for a "formal arms embargo" since the government was "not allowed to license for export any equipment where there is a clear risk that it could be used for external aggression or internal oppression."
more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,10674,1034884,00.html

[meegbear]

1. When you post in LBN ...

The subject of the post must contain the associated headline.

[eek]

2. now search for connetions with:

Boeing
Carlyle
Segueway (just an amusing co-inky-dink. no wonder he was farting around with one)

bla bla bla

[CatWoman]

5. why don't you fix the headline

are you aware of the rules for posting in LBN?

[legin]

3. unfortunaltly

This is something of a 'speciality of the house' for us guys. I think from memory we were selling Hawk training aircraft to Indonesia whilst they were in the process of butching the East Timorese. Of course the pilots trained on these Hawks would not have gone on to take part in air raids against the East Timorese because the british government is "not allowed to license for export any equipment where there is a clear risk that it could be used for external aggression or internal oppression."

[ZenLefty]

4. Hi eek

When posting in LBN, please use the article's headline as your post title. Thanks.

ZenLefty
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