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11:26 am
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BAE Pwned?
The UK High Court has ruled that the Serious Fraud Office acted unlawfully in calling off its investigation into BAE Systems arms sales to Saudi Arabia. The case was brought by Campaign Against Arms Trade and The Cornerhouse.
(See here and here for some of my previous posts on the subject.)
Not sure yet whether this means they'll have to re-open it (of course it wasn't the SFO's decision, except in the technical sense, it was Blair's), but still very good news, and many congratulations to Ann and Nick and all the others at CAAT who have put a monumental amount of work into this. Having been involved myself on the Steering Committee in CAAT's decision-making around this (and in particular on the BAE spying subplot), very pleased on a personal level too.
Update: Aha, surprisingly enough Yahoo News comes through before the Beeb or the Grauniad. Judges to make further ruling on what happens next. Most likely that SFO will have to reconsider the decision. Nick G. also replied to my querying text with: "Nature of court intervention still argue but fantastic win nevertheless!" Indeed!
Tags: arms trade, caat, corruption, wolfram & hart (uk)
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12:36 am
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More on BAE
This is truly astonishing. I mean, we knew this sort of thing was going on, but... wow.
No further comment needed.
Tags: arms trade, corruption, wolfram & hart (uk) plc
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02:05 am
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Bristol CAAT meeting - and new blog!
Campaign Against Arms Trade has a new blog, and I am one of the bloggers! I have just posted there, so I shall kill two birds with one stone by making this my post for the night!
For those who can't be bothered to click, or who would rather comment over here, below is my report of the meeting, which is the bulk of the post.
( clicky )
Tags: activism, bae systems, caat, corruption
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