The Mother of All Mideast Scandals
Huge bribes, arms deals and threats of terrorism are the elements of an unfolding plot centering on the good friend of both Presidents Bush, Prince Bandar bin Sultan of Saudi Arabia.
Testimony in a London court this week led a judge to comment that former Prime Minister Tony Blair appeared to have “rolled over” for Bandar “just as if a gun had been held to the head” of the government.
The Saudi Prince was accused of threatening to hold back information on terrorists and suicide bombers that would lead to the loss of “British lives on British streets” if Blair’s investigators kept looking into charges that he took $2 billion of bribes in arms deals with the British company BAE. They stopped.
Now those charges as well as Bandar’s strong-arming to suppress them are being heard in a British high court, and there are ongoing probes here as well.
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5 Responses to “The Mother of All Mideast Scandals”
Does it not seems reasonable for free nations to reduce dependency on predator nations?
Where is the leverage of petro-dictators if we develop and distribution free solar energy systems?
Both Bill Clinton and the Bush family have ties to the corrupt money in the ME. This is another reason to support ABC or ABB for POTUS.
ABC or ABB?
Easy as 123? (But seriously I am blanking on what the initials are standing for.)
AnythingButClinton and AnythingButBush
Ah. Thanks. I probably don't travel political circles well enough. TMV is my only political dose, other than reading news, each day.