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- More BAE shenanigans
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Saudi officials paid for "support services" from BAE. We don’t know what exactly these services were but we do know that BAE allegedly paid actresses tens of thousands of pounds to entertain Saudi Prince Turki bin Nasser and other senior Saudis at lavish parties.
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- U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Middle East Terrorists?
  Posted by Kathy from New Yorker
  Seymour Hersh, New Yorker, writes about what could be today's Iran-Contra fiasco. The Bush Administration is running clandestine operations in the Middle East, according to Hersh, using off-the-books funds.
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- OECD to investigate Tony Blair's dropped probe on BAE
  Posted by SoxFirst
  Now for the fallout from the British Government decision to drop the corruption probe into a massive defence deal involving BAE Systems, the world's fourth largest defence contractor, and Saudi Arabia. The OECD will investigate and activist groups are suing.
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- Al-Qaida says it hit Saudi oil facility
  Posted by Billbar from Al Jazeera
  Al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the foiled attack on a Saudi Arabian oil facility at Abqaiq on Friday.
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rhoehn comments on:
U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Middle East Terrorists?

Drives me nuts how the Bush administration is able to use the CIA without Senate oversight under the notion that they are operating under the military!

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11:08 pm 2/28/07
Jeff comments on:
U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Middle East Terrorists?

Wow:

A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

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9:06 am 2/26/07
Kathy comments on:
U.S. Funds Being Secretly Funneled To Middle East Terrorists?

There’s more on this in the blogosphere. Crooks and Liars has partial transcript of a CNN interview. Think Progress also has more details.

Hersh has a good track record at accurate off-the-record reporting. The article is an in-depth analysis, not a quick off-the-cuff assertion.

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2:02 am 2/26/07

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Leon Gettler is a blogger and senior business journalist at The Age, specializing on management issues. His latest book, Organisations Behaving Badly focuses on the forces that lead smart executives into making dumb decisions.
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