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Is this why the Tories are keeping quiet on the BAe-Al-Yamamah cover-up?

Mark Pack asked why the Tories were saying saying nothing on the BAe enquiry.
Submitted by Peter Welch on 20 December 2006 - 6:27pm

A regular visitor to Liberal Review thinks he has found the reason. In the comments to our previous article on Al-Yamamah, James points out this article in the Times.

THE Tories under David Cameron have accepted £100,000 from the wife of a foreign arms dealer barred from making political donations in Britain.
Wafic Said, a Syrian-born Saudi, and his British wife Rosemary are accused of exploiting a loophole in the rules to fund the Tories, who are under increasing pressure to reveal their financial backers.

If the name doesn't mean much to you, here are a few details

Said has a colourful public profile. He was the middleman who profited from Britain’s biggest arms deal — “Al-Yamamah” — which involved the multi-billion-pound sale of fighters and warships to Saudi Arabia. The deal was signed by Margaret Thatcher, whose son Mark was said to have received payments for his involvement in the deal in the 1980s.

Is this why the "official opposition" can't be bothered to oppose Labour on the Al-Yamamah cover-up?


Comments

On 20 December 2006 - 6:48pm, Duncan Borrowman (not verified) wrote:

Yes - I just picked up on this too and have a couple of links over on my blog.

Smoking gun? More like smoking armoury.


On 20 December 2006 - 8:44pm, Peter Welch wrote:

smoking arms deal?


On 22 December 2006 - 10:35pm, Peter Welch wrote:

More at

http://pigeon-post.blogspot.com/2006/12/britain-after-al-yamamah-decision.html