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Thread #143239   Message #3326835
Posted By: Jim Carroll
22-Mar-12 - 03:47 AM
Thread Name: BS: Homs horror (Syria, 2012)
Subject: RE: BS: Homs horror
"SYRIA: Total value of 1 UK military licence from Oct09 – Oct10 For small arms ammunition. £0.03 million"

"Military export licenses to Libya alone since the start of 2009 totalled £61.3million, according to Department for Business figures.
The UK also awarded Bahrain £6million of licences covering submachine guns, sniper rifles, CS hand grenades, smoke canisters, stun grenades and riot control agents.
At least 26 citizens have been killed and 1,000 injured as the Gulf state cracked down on freedom campaigners.
Britain also approved arms licenses totalling £1.7billion to Saudi Arabia, £20.4million to Egypt, £276.9million to Algeria and £52.8million to the United Arab Emirates.
Body armour and night vision goggles have been approved for Yemen, small arms ammunition for Syria, and sniper rifles, aircraft components and armoured personnel carriers for Saudi Arabia."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/feb/22/uk-arms-sales-middle-east-north-africa
Suggest you follow al the links in this one; containsall the facts and figures of British arms sales

"No documentation that it was supplied"
And no reports exist to prove - or even claim that it wasn't.
It appears that the only two people on the planet making such a claim are a gun fantacist who likes to wave his weapon about to impress the assembled company and an extreme nationalist who believes it "anti-British" to criticise his government's stated policy of selling weapons to despotic killers.
"We do trade with governments that are not democratic and have bad human rights records", he told a crossparty group of senior MPs. "We do business with repressive governments and there's no denying that".
(Vince Cable Secretary of State for Business Innovation and Skills, Assumed office, 12 May 2010)
Have a nice day - y'all.
Jim Carroll