{"id":4727,"date":"2008-02-15T18:26:18","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/saudi-prince-threatened-uk-wit.html"},"modified":"2008-02-15T18:26:18","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T18:26:18","slug":"saudi-prince-threatened-uk-wit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/02\/saudi-prince-threatened-uk-wit.html","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Prince Threatened UK With Terrorist Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

This<\/a> is absolute amazing! I’m shocked by the brazen threat and that it worked.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia’s rulers threatened to make it easier for terrorists to attack London unless corruption investigations into their arms deals were halted, according to court documents revealed yesterday.
\nPreviously secret files describe how investigators were told they faced “another 7\/7” and the loss of “British lives on British streets” if they pressed on with their inquiries and the Saudis carried out their threat to cut off intelligence.
\nPrince Bandar, the head of the Saudi national security council, and son of the crown prince, was alleged in court to be the man behind the threats to hold back information about suicide bombers and terrorists. He faces accusations that he himself took more than \u00a31bn in secret payments from the arms company BAE.
\nHe was accused in yesterday’s high court hearings of flying to London in December 2006 and uttering threats which made the prime minister, Tony Blair, force an end to the Serious Fraud Office investigation into bribery allegations involving Bandar and his family.
\nThe threats halted the fraud inquiry, but triggered an international outcry, with allegations that Britain had broken international anti-bribery treaties.
\n[…]
\nYesterday, anti-corruption campaigners began a legal action to overturn the decision to halt the case. They want the original investigation restarted, arguing the government had caved into blackmail.
\nThe judge said he was surprised the government had not tried to persuade the Saudis to withdraw their threats. He said: “If that happened in our jurisdiction [the UK], they would have been guilty of a criminal offence”. Counsel for the claimants said it would amount to perverting the course of justice. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

BTW, it didn’t buy him too much because the US and the Swiss are pursuing the case.
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