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Thread #162724   Message #3874701
Posted By: Teribus
01-Sep-17 - 11:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: uk politics
Subject: RE: BS: uk politics
"evidence emerged that Britain had sold sniper ammunition to Syria"

Really Jom?? What "evidence" has emerged? You were asked to produce "evidence" about four years ago and you singularly failed to do so.

Are you sure it was Britain - as in the British Government - who sold this ammunition? Before all we got was a vague reference in a newspaper article that in 2009 an export licence had been granted to a private individual to export Standard NATO ammunition worth £30,000 to Syria (So The ammunition was not being sold to Syria by the British Government). There was no confirmation in the newspaper that the sale ever went through, or that the ammunition was ever sent to Syria.

So tell us Jom what is this new evidence - absolutely dying to hear a verifiable version of it.

"The Arab Spring protests to improve the conditions of many of these countries were barely a week old when Cameron hosted a massive arms fair to sell weapons to some of the worst offenders."

As international trade fairs take months to organise I think the start of the Arab Spring protests and the timing of the arms fair were purely coincidental. When the old USSR collapsed they left a bit of a vacuum in their old stomping grounds - in any area of trade where vacuums occur they tend to be filled rather quickly. The weapons and munitions used to kill the vast majority of people in Syria Jom come from Russia.