{"id":194167,"date":"2008-10-18T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/just-how-dirty-was-tony-blair\/"},"modified":"2008-10-18T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T14:21:00","slug":"just-how-dirty-was-tony-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/10\/18\/just-how-dirty-was-tony-blair\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Dirty Was Tony Blair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because we already know that Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saudr, known as &#8220;Bandar Bush&#8221; for his close ties to the Bush Crime Family, is unbelievably dirty.  He took around \u00a31 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">billion<\/span> in commissions to &#8220;facilitate&#8221; the military sales in question.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair shut down the investigations into bribes around the Al-Yamamah arms sales to the house of Saud in response to threats from that nation, and now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/17\/europe\/arms.php\">OECD has released a blistering critique of the behavior of the British government at that time<\/a> for Blair&#8217;s shutting down that investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Bush and Blair can share a cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because we already know that Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Al Saudr, known as &#8220;Bandar Bush&#8221; for his close ties to the Bush Crime Family, is unbelievably dirty. He took around \u00a31 billion in commissions to &#8220;facilitate&#8221; the military sales in question. Tony Blair shut down the investigations into bribes around the Al-Yamamah &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1008,984,1031],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-europe","category-house-of-saud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}