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To: maceng2 who wrote (48854)	10/2/2002 4:04:41 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Back when this guy was at the helm as Prime Minister. news.bbc.co.uk The UK had some problems with arms being sent to Iraq. Politicians spent a good amount of time covering it all up, so we didn't get the whole story. What came out was bad enough though. news.bbc.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------- The arms-to-Iraq inquiry was called after directors of the Coventry-based Matrix Churchill firm were prosecuted for selling Iraq machine tools which could be used to make weapons. Several Tory ministers signed public interest immunity certificates to try to stop the disclosure of documents that showed that the defendants had been working for British secret services. However, the judge in the case refused to accept the certificates and the prosecution collapsed in 1992. The case led to allegations that some ministers would have let innocent men go to jail rather than have the truth exposed. ------------------------------------------------------ I would so like to believe that that incidents like this are not happening today. Unfortunately John Major is a senior director for the European division of the Carlyle group. news.bbc.co.uk

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