One of the bits in an earlier post today, WoT up in the air?, mentioned Britain winning a contract to supply Saudi with fighter planes. I know all Arabs aren’t equal, but my concern was with the fact that extreme elements have gained before from Western supplied weapons.
Well no Britain is in the shit because they apparently supplied Hezbollah with night vision equipment.
The equipment was actually found by Israeli troops in Hezbollah command bunkers in southern Lebanon. Each set was stamped "Made in Britain".
British Foreign Office officials said early indications seemed to suggest the night-vision equipment found by the Israelis was not part of the batch sold to Iran in 2003.
Good one! and Iran is considered to be a little less stable and friendly than Saudi Arabia. I guess it is a matter of ‘trade is trade’, regardless.
This is the kind of issue which makes a mockery of the WoT. It's bullshit to push the fear and at the same time supply the weapons. Unless no one finds out, of course.
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