Al Jazeera: Trail of the Dove - Part 1

An exclusive interview with one of Britain's leading investigative journalists and a former insider, the Trail of the Dove reveals the extent of surcharges, commissions and the $100 millon secret fund used by the UK's leading arms firm, BAE Systems, to grease the wheels of the biggest arms deals in British history.

Al-Yamamah 'The Dove' is the name of a series of massive arms sales by the United Kingdom to Saudi Arabia. It is Britain's largest ever export agreement, and the prime contractor has been BAE Systems and its predecessor British Aerospace, which earned £43 billion in 20 years.

Both the UK's National Audit Office (report never released) and The Serious Fraud Office (halted) conducted investigations into corruption allegations. Trail of the Dove has also had access to ministry of defence secret documents and ambassadorial official correspondence that shows the level of corruption in the British arms trade.

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[lion115ksa]

This is a big lie from the enemies of Saudi Arabia

[mailing2adeel]

if you have anything related to this, pls send it to me

thanks

[mikexxxxnolan]

Perhaps the proven fraud (in a courtroom) of £64 million by Abbey National Plc / Coopers & Lybrand on 1128 properties, has something to do with it. The double standards of the UK establishment is revolting to the rest of the world. My letter to Tony Blair may have had some influence but I doubt it. The report to the SFO by me SFO/3/C/920 is proof of non- regulation by lawless UK. I emigrated to Eire last year.

[alfarooq20]

there is an a drngrous artical in arabic: (what not said by aljazeera about alyamama(the dove) i wish from every arabian to read it:

ما لم تقله 'الجزيرة ' عن صفقة اليمامة

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