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To: Les H who wrote (206541)	11/24/2002 10:14:59 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Now an eighth Westerner - British businessman Glen Pallard - has been arrested and is being held. There is every possibility that he, too, is being tortured. Pallard's detention is evidence, were in it needed, that the Foreign Office's policy of handling the cases with minimum fuss, lest it cause offence, is not working. One relative of the Saudi eight said: 'We are being blackmailed by the Foreign Office not to discuss this for fear it would jeopardise the men, but then Whitehall does nothing, so they rot in jail.' The Al Yamamah arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia is worth $500,000 a day to Britain - gold enough, some might say, to stuff the mouth of Her Majesty's Government. The bigger picture is no less bleak. Why are the Americans so keen to control Iraq, which sits on the world's second biggest oil field? Because, it seems, they fear they will lose the biggest.