UK & USu Arms Trade :EGYPT: Total value of 31 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including bombs, missiles, body armour. £4.01 million Total controlled export licences Nov10- dec11 £54.65 million US selling arms to Egypt to use against protestors says Amnesty IRAQ: Total value of 31 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including body armour, weapon sights,gunparts. £4.77 million Total value of controlled export licences Nov10 – Dec11 £51.75 million ISRAEL: Total value of 91 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including armoured plate,gas mask filters, signaling and radar equipment. £4.64 million Total value controlled export licences Nov10 – Dec11 £90.5 million JORDAN: Total value of 51 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including armoured vehicles, gun parts, gas mask filters. £11.99 million Total value controlled export licences Nov10 – Dec11 £86.35 million KUWAIT: Total value of 38 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including anti riot shields, patrol boats, military software. £6.47 million 29th Dec 2011 Washington approves sale of 200 Patriot missiles to Kuwait. Total value controlled export licences Nov10 – Dec11 £60.7 million LEBANON: Total value of 5 UK military export licences from Oct 09 – Oct10 Including body armour, shotguns. £0.78 million Total value controlled export licences Nov11 – Dec12 £13.28 million LIBYA: Total value of 25 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including ammunition, crowd control equipment, tear gas. £33.9 million Total value controlled export licences Nov10 – Dec11 £305.7 million Libya provides a fascinating case study of UK government policies on selling arms to dictatorships. It demonstrates that the UK happily sells arms to repressive regimes until it is prohibited from doing so, while preparing the ground for new sales when the barriers are lifted. During the 1980s and 1990s, Libya was treated as a pariah state, because of its aggressive and unpredictable activities at home and abroad. In the late 1990s, the Libyan stance became more conciliatory, for example taking responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, and western countries softened their stance. Tony Blair’s so-called “deal in the desert” with Colonel Gaddafi in March 2004 opened the way for the deals that really mattered – contracts in oil, construction and arms. The arms embargo was duly lifted in October 2004.The UK wooed the Libyans with ardour in the following years. Blair continued to visit Libya, signing an Accord on a Defence Cooperation and Defence Industrial Partnership in 2007. Prince Andrew made three visits. The recent Woolf report revealed that arms giant BAE seconded a staff member to assist Saif Gaddafi’s admission to the London School of Economics. The end of the arms embargo saw sales begin to flow, although not as fast or as frequently as companies had hoped. 2005 was a good year with £41 million worth of deals but the following years were much leaner. Then, in 2009, over £27 million military and dual-use materials were licenced for sale. In 2010 the figure reached £217 million. Some contracts were large. MBDA, in which BAE has a 37.5% stake, was awarded a £147 million contract for anti-tank missiles and £122 million for a related communications system. In 2007 the UK arm of UK General Dynamics signed an £85 million contract for tank communications systems with the ‘Khamis Brigade’, the elite unit led by Colonel Gaddafi’s son Kham. Many licences were for smaller items. For example, in the third quarter of 2010 military equipment approved for export included wall and door breaching projectile launchers and ammunition for crowd control, small arms and tear gas/irritants. In fact, “ammunition” accounted for £3.2 million of the £4.7 million of military items licensed. In the final quarter of 2010 almost half a million pounds of small arms were exported. Not one individual licence was refused. These last months of 2010 were busy ones for arms exporters and their DSO allies in Tripoli. The UK exhibited at two arms fairs in Libya in October and November, issuing temporary licences for the exhibits. Such was their enthusiasm that the UK had the largest pavilion at Tripoli’s Libyan Defence and Security Exhibition (LibDex). Top army brass were invited to visit the UK to view military equipment. No doubt exporters were looking forward to further buoyant sales MOROCCO: Total value of 18 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including thermal imaging, swarming ropes, bomb making parts. £1.15 million Total value controlled export licences Nov10 – Dec11 £16.55 million OMAN: Total value of 98 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including parts for combat aircraft, unmanned drones, and tanks. £9.36 million Total value controlled export licences Nov 2010 – Dec 2011 £436 million May 2012 BAE Systems has submitted proposal for sale of 12 Eurofighters including 5 year support and pilot training. QATAR: Total value of 22 UK military export licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including crowd control ammunition, missile parts, military cargo vehicles. £3.87 million Total value controlled export licences Nov 2010 – Dec 2011 £27 million SAUDIA ARABIA: Total value of 98 Uk military licences from Oct09 – Oct10 Including armoured personnel vehicles, 4 wheel drive vehicles, air surveillance equipment. £64.3 million Total value of controlled licences Nov 10 - Dec 11 £3.979 billion 24th Dec 2011 US approves £39billion sales of aircraft and missile systems. May 2012 BAE to sell training jets to Saudi Air Force SYRIA: Total value of 1 UK military licence from Oct09 – Oct10 For small arms ammunition. £0.03 million Total value controlled export licences 2010 – Dec2011 £5.7 million Dec 2011 Syria gets its shore batteries of 72 supersonic P-800/SS-N-26 Yakhont missiles, in the midst of a growing civil war with demonstrators and a Turkish-supported Free Syrian Army. TUNISIA: Total value of 10 Uk military licences from Oct09 – Oct10 For radar equipment, gun parts. £0.13 million Total value controlled export licences Oct 2010 – Dec 2011 £16.9 million UNITED ARAB EMURATES: Total value of 152 UK military licences Oct09 – Oct10 Including software, heavy machine guns, weapon sights. £15.89million Total value controlled export licences Oct 2010 – Dec 2011 £1.97 billion
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