BAE wins £1bn Hawk contract

[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.
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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.
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more:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/armstrade/story/0,10674,1034884,00.html


shockingly, a little searching will get you all sortsa purty dots to connect.
For starters:
Carlyle
Boeing
and amusingly, Segueway!

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1. heh, heh

I work for BAE Systems. One of our top engineers just quit the other day because he couldn't stand developing weapons that were being used in the way the Bush administration was using them.

I'm a graphic designer, so I don't really deal with the weapon-side of things. Hell, I wonder what they'd think if they knew I checked out DU...