UK And US Involved In Selling Illegal Weapons To Iran And Iraq, As 55 Million Pounds Traced to Government Coffers
By Greg Szymanski
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
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
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
"It would apear that the Dept. of Trade and Industry (DTI) inspectors missed this schedule when they raided Astra and took files in the run-up to the Scott Inquiry that looked into the Arms to
The source also verified significant amounts of money during the Thatcher era was laundered to a company called Casalee, a company moving arms to the Middle East owned by John Bredenkemp, an international arms and tobacco dealer operating out of an office at
"His principal operating company there is Breco," the source said. "They say that Bredenkamp also now has a
"It seems unlikely that a possible link will not be drawn between John Bredenkamp as an arms and tobacco dealer and the two sets of high-profile Party Political donations, including the1million pounds that Tony Blair tried unsuccessfully to return immediately to Bernie Ecclestone on becoming Prime Minister in May 1997. The donor was said to be the tobacco industry."
New developments in the July 2003 murder of scientist and arms inspector, David Kelly, reveal one of the many reasons he may have been killed was due to his knowledge of covert research of the "black only bomb" in
Although this has been reported on before in a Sunday Express 2004 article, new information is now linking the connection to his assignment directly from Thatcher and former Prime Minister John Major.
Kelly was said to be involved in the apartheid regime's most secret project. According to a previous
Dr. Kelly had visited the project's headquarters soon after he was appointed in 1972 to be head of the microbiology department at
Another reason for Dr. Kelly's murder surrounds his knowledge of the B52 incident in
The British source provided new information about what Dr. Kelly really knew about the lost nuclear weapons, suggesting Vice President Dick Cheney had a very strong motive to keep Dr. Kelly silent about the B52 incident.
"We now know that Dr. David Kelly did in fact not know about the loss of the very big nukes from the B-52 plane," said the source. "Kelly only ever knew about the smaller battlefield / tactical nuclear bombs that were made by Armscor in
"In July 2003 when Kelly was murdered the fear in The White House (USA) must have been Kelly would claim that the WMD not found in
"This revelation would have been most untimely for The White House in summer 2003. It would have killed-off the campaign to re-elect GW Bush for 2004, just as it was about to start. It seems more likely that Kelly's assassins were U.S. Navy SEALS under the direction of Dick Cheney?
"At the time of Kelly's death, Tony Blair was in the
"I occasionally speak to Michael Shrimpton the International lawyer who claims to be a devotee of the Neo-Cons. This could explain why Shrimpton is always trying to shift the blame for Kelly's murder away from the
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