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MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (UPI) — Lebanon’s defense minister planned to visit his counterpart in Moscow to discuss the purchase of heavy Russian weaponry, officials said.
Tanks, helicopters, armored vehicles and air defense systems were ticketed for discussion, an unidentified Lebanese General Staff official said. RIA Novosti reported.
A senior Lebanese Defense Ministry official said there would be [...]

Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Method to Thomas Madness on Obama Birth Certificate
…Thomas’s legal meddle on the Obama birth certificate non-issue fits perfectly in with his jaundiced interpretation of law and its practice and his private vow to get revenge on his liberal tormentors.
Study: Nearly half of world’s jailed journalists come from Web…More [...]

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Gun sales and the paranoid right: A sucker born every minute
Crooks and Liars by David Neiwert
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Before Election Day, the NRA was doing what it always does: Raising the specter of the liberal bogeyman — you know, the Incipient Dictator Who Wants To Take Your [...]

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Customs probe reveals sanctions-busting sales of arms, missile technology and nuclear components

by Mark Townsend
Global Research, April 21, 2008
The Observer
Investigators have identified a number of British arms dealers trading with Tehran, triggering alarm among government officials who fear Iran’s nuclear programme may be receiving significant support from UK sources.

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by Chris in Paris · 4/19/2008 03:18:00 AM ET
South African dock workers refused to unload the delivery for the desperate Robert Mugabe and the South African courts backed up the dock workers. The Chinese ship has since left Durban, South Africa and rumored to be heading for Mozambique. The shipment may unload in Mozambique [...]

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Posted By Cernig
The old saw has it that one should “follow the money” to find the truth - and in foreign policy that too often means following the arms trade money. Here are a couple of interesting but under-reported stories from NewsNow’s “arms trade” aggregator this last week.

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07/03/2008 17h18
BANGKOK (AFP) - Notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, branded the “Merchant of Death” for feeding [...]

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By Spencer Ackerman - June 12, 2007, 6:06PM
Accusations continue to swarm about a British defense corporation’s alleged kickbacks over 20 years to Prince Bandar, the former Saudi ambassador to the United States.

http://rawstory.com/news/afp/…
Published: Sunday February 10, 2008
A federal judge this week ordered frozen some of the assets in the United States of Prince Bandar, former Saudi ambassador to Washington, who has been hit by a lawsuit by BAE Systems shareholders, a court source said Sunday.
The British defense group since June has been the subject of a criminal [...]