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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