BAE Systems Scandal will hit Real Estate Grab in the Middle East

In a way, the endless war drive in the Middle East is a giant real estate grab. And of course a lot of money and bribery is involved.
There is a big scandal about $2 billion or so in bribes to Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia. Prince Bandar is a leading collaborator of Cheney in the White House and the war. Then there is the wolf in sheep's clothing, Lord Woolf.

In fact Prince Bandar is notorious for pushing an Iran war, and a Sunni-Shiite war. But I think there is a lot more than money involved in this corruption in Great Britain, and involving the Blair Government, and the incoming PM as well.

June 11, 2007 (LPAC)-- In the firestorm around its multi-billion dollar covert slush-funds, the giant British arms company BAE Systems has chosen Lord Woolf, former chief justice of England and Wales, to head the company's review of its own practices, according to British Broadcasting Corporation.

Lord Woolf is currently in the tiny oil-rich emirate of Qatar, which borders Saudi Arabia on the Persian Gulf. Lord Woolf retired from his British post in October, 2005. A few months later Qatar announced it was appointing him President of the Tribunal over the newly created Qatar Financial Center, a projected paradise for global speculators, explicitly modeled on the City of London.

In the same (May 22, 2006) announcement, Qatar designated British attorney William Blair -- older brother of Prime Minister Tony Blair -- as chairman of the Financial Center's Appeals Body, making Woolf and Blair the Center's highest legal authorities. William Blair is a top international banking representative.

Woolf and Blair flew to Qatar last month to set their operations in motion.

Meanwhile back in London, the same Woolf-Blair Qatar entity is sponsoring a strategy session on the long-term relationships between the emerging money centers in the Persian Gulf and the City of London financial center. Baroness Symons will co-chair this June 28 meeting, hosted by the Middle East Association, of which she is Vice President. The meeting was arranged jointly by the City of London and the Gulf Cooperation Council, created in 1981 by Saudi Arabia.

Baroness Symons is a leading figure in the UK-US-Saudi financial and arms relationships behind the BAE scandal. She was Minster for Defense Procurement from 1999 to 2003, and has since served as Tony Blair's special envoy to Saudi Arabia and to the Middle East. Her husband, former Blair aide Phil Bassett, helped run the falsification of intelligence that led to the Iraq war.

Baroness Symons herself has organized the Blair regime's management of the slander campaign against Lyndon LaRouche in the case of Jeremiah Duggan.

Executive Intelligence Review is updating its 1997 investigation of Armor Holdings, the U.S. defense contractor that was acquired this year by BAE Systems for $4.1 billion.