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To: Carolyn who wrote (8156)	6/7/2007 8:59:46 AM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20106

As soon as these people buy into their own public attention, they lose their footing, unless they have an agenda bigger than they are... a case in point are the dixie chicks and glover, two different kinds of situations... those women had no agenda except to say something they though would endear them to their audience, a spur of the moment thing, they were just plain stupid and still are arrogant lockstep liberals... with glover, penn, and others, they genuinely hate America... GZ™

To: Carolyn who wrote (8156)	6/7/2007 9:08:19 AM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Respond to of 20106

England is already paying the jizyah. They must be a caliphate Saudi prince got British arms money: BBC ROBERT BARR theglobeandmail.com Associated Press June 7, 2007 at 6:13 AM EDT LONDON — A Saudi prince received millions of dollars for his own use as part of Britain's largest arms deal, the British Broadcasting Corp. says. In upcoming report from its Panorama program, the BBC says that the payments went to Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who negotiated the $80-billion (U.S.) Al-Yamamah arms deal to sell 100 warplanes in 1985. BAE Systems, the prime contractor, has denied that it ever violated British law in relation to the contract. Prince Bandar refused to comment, the BBC said in a statement Wednesday. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has taken responsibility for calling off an investigation by the Serious Fraud Office into allegations that BAE Systems ran a $120-million “slush fund” offering sweeteners to Saudi officials in return for contracts as part of the Al-Yamamah deal. Speaking at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, Mr. Blair refused to comment on the allegations raised in the BBC report but repeated his long-standing defence of his government's actions. “This investigation, if it had gone ahead, would have involved the most serious allegations in investigations being made into the Saudi royal family and my job is to give advice as to whether that is a sensible thing in circumstances where I don't believe the investigation incidentally would have led anywhere except to the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship for our country,” he said. “Quite apart from the fact that we would have lost thousands, thousands of British jobs.” The BBC report says that up to $240-million a year was sent by BAE from the U.K. to two Saudi embassy accounts in Washington. There was no distinction between the accounts of the embassy and official government accounts, the BBC said. “The BBC's Panorama program has established that these accounts were actually a conduit to Prince Bandar. ... The purpose of one of the accounts was to pay the expenses of the prince's private Airbus.” Roger Berry, who chairs a House of Commons committee that reviews arms deals, said Thursday that “these matters need to be properly investigated.” “It's bad for British business, apart from anything else, if allegations of bribery popping around aren't investigated,” Mr. Berry told BBC radio. Al-Yamamah, meaning “the dove,” was the name given to an agreement under which BAE supplied Tornado fighter jets and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia, which paid the British government with oil. The full extent of the deal was never revealed but it was widely believed to be Britain's largest-ever export agreement.