As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade - Mark Thomas

With the ‘Al Yamamah’ Saudi arms scandal back in the news, the case being dropped by the Serious Fraud Squad after a twenty year long investigation because the Saudis were threatening to pull the plug on another billion dollar deal with B.A.E Systems, this book is an intriguing read on just why Blair did what he did to allow the Saudis to get off with an 'alleged' 60 million pound slush fund bribe. It wasn’t about national security or saving British jobs, but something far more corrupt, and you the tax payer are subsidising it all. The first startling fact in the book is the British taxpayer subsidises the UK arms industry to the tune of 13 million pounds per ...