Al Jazeera: Trail of the Dove - Part 3

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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[polygamous1]

WHAT? who runs Gitmo Abu graib see where is Iraq's $23B gone? shared between the top us politocians But that's ok for the us to do it + over 1.5 Million iraqis murdered for their oil 10s of 1000s tortured raped n God knows what else BAE was just better that the yanks n french so well done BAE rather Britain that america ANYDAY YANKS JUST CAN'T STAND LOOSING BUT FACE IT BRITAIN BEAT YOU n am Not bias am not native Briton just ask the world what they think Britain then usa = the devil to most

[abdull85]

UK seems time a bull shit.

[m99sm]

آل سعود مع كل مساوئهم يضلون شوكة في حلوق الرافضة لعنهم الله وقوة في وجه التمدد الصفوي الإيراني.

[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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