US And UK Involved In
Selling Illegal Weapons
To Iran And Iraq
By Greg Szymanski
4-16-6
British sources close to the undercover financing network of the
illegal arms trade have traced payments totaling 55 million pounds
during a seven year period during the Margaret Thatcher era, money
going from government coffers to the arms dealers for weapons sent to
Iran and Iraq.
For years, investigators have been trying to connect the dots to
overseas companies fronting the arms trade despite a press and
government black out, naming the Astra Group as one major player.
Generally, sources tracking the money claim the marching orders come
from Washington to10 Downing Street, both governments then utilizing
overseas accounts and companies to ship arms to Iraq and Iran to fuel
the ongoing Middle East conflict, an illegal operation being traced
back to the Iraq-Iran conflict and Gulf War I.
According to observers overseas banks and arms companies are the "bank
weapons of choice," being used since it keeps the illegal dealings
under the American public's radar screen, where scrutiny is still more
intense due to severity of Britian's Official Secrets Act. For a good
overview of the illegal arms trade, complete with a list of companies
and illegal commissions paid, see the Arctic Beacon's four part
series, Blood Money: The Illegal Arms Trade at www.arcticbeacon.com
New information now surfacing, according to a confidential source
close to the British government, claims the 55 million pounds used to
fuel the Middle East provided by the UK and the U.S. for weapons used
against British and American soldiers, was money transferred covertly
from UK coffers via BMARQ of the Astra Group.
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