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Euro Fighter Jets

Asked for further information about the Times report today that we had supplied Euro Fighter Jets to Saudi Arabia, the PMOS said that he did not give a running commentary on commercial matters.

Put that the Saudis had confirmed the sale, the PMOS replied that we still abided by our rules in these cases.

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6 Comments »

  1. Seems like the aircraft needs to be re-named, or we need to include Saudi Arabia in the EEC.

    Comment by Roger Huffadine — 20 Apr 2006 on 5:47 pm | Link
  2. let Britons be tortured in saudi as long as they buy the planes, in the house of lords next week our Gov will intervene on the appeal made by Saudi Arabia to side with them on the immunity law, meanwhile the men who suffered still have no justice, no life and no redress.

    Comment by Mary UK — 20 Apr 2006 on 10:53 pm | Link
  3. let Britons be tortured in saudi as long as they buy the planes, in the house of lords next week our Gov will intervene on the appeal made by Saudi Arabia to side with them on the immunity law, meanwhile the men who suffered still have no justice, no life and no redress.

    Comment by Mary UK — 20 Apr 2006 on 10:53 pm | Link
  4. I presume the sale or proposed sale of euro jets to Saudi is in the interests of the defence of democracy, freedom and to protect human rights. Why am I confused?

    Comment by carol woodhouse — 23 Aug 2006 on 2:24 pm | Link
  5. is tony blair mad selling a load of eurofighters to Saudi Arabia or is he like the rest of them, just out to line his own pockets. there is only one reason the eurofighter should be in the middle east and it’s not to strengthen their west hating islamic airforce now is it?

    Comment by big — 22 Jan 2007 on 7:55 pm | Link
  6. "there is only one reason the eurofighter should be in the middle east and it’s not to strengthen their west hating islamic airforce now is it?"

    Ah, don’t tell me, the one reason they SHOULD be there is to bomb the shit out of them filthy ragheads, is it? How is it possible to be quite THIS moronic in only one lifetime? You don’t think there’s any justifiable reason WHY those Islamics hate the west? Like the fact that we tell massive lies in order to give us the erroneous justification to invade their countries, litter their landscape with radioactive poisons which render it uninhabitable for hundreds of millions of years, and steal their natural resources? Noooooo! "They hate us for our FREEDOM", right?!

    It’s all about money. But more than that, it’s about creating a never-ending CYCLE. I don’t suppose you have heard of the Hegelian Dialectic? It’s the principle of synthesis+antithesis=thesis. Or put more simply for those who prefer to think in terms of "west hating islamic airforces", Problem Reaction Solution. You create a problem, provoke a reaction, and provide the solution. That is the primary tactic which has been in use since the French Revolution in order to give the people selling fighters to Saudi Arabia the control over our society to allow them get away with such things. Sell fighters to Islamic countries, wind them up by invading them, perpetuate war, and you can carry on selling fighters!! Constant war = constant profit. Doesn’t get any easier than that…

    Comment by SmokeNMirrors — 23 Jan 2007 on 5:32 am | Link

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