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Complete List Of Which Countries Sold Weapons To Libya
Wonder why nobody really cared about the Libyan regime until two weeks ago, when it suddenly became cool to hate on Muammar, especially by his former head of state "best friends"? Simple: weapon sales. While Libya was happily exporting oil, and using the proceeds to reinvest the money in the form of €62 billion or so of deposits in European (and apparently US) banks, bypassing Money-Laundering Provisions freely, it also used a fair portion of the proceeds to procure weapons. The amount, at just under €1 billion between 2005 and 2009 is not nominal, and certainly led to some very appreciated top and bottom line beats for a variety of arms makers. And while the data was not previously available, the Guardian now makes it public for the entire world to realize that while Italy relied on Libya for a great portion of its oil imports, it was also the biggest maker of Libyan weapons (which makes sense: the country needed to protect its investment) in 2009 and 2007, and was just behind France in 2008.
The total weapons exports by year is presented here:
And the full breakdown by year and country:
And some of the key highlights from Guardian:
- The EU granted export licenses for €834.5m worth of arms exports in
the first five years after the arms embargo was lifted in October 2004 - 2009 is the highest amount ever: €343.7m
- Italy is the top exporter, with €276.7m over the five years
- The UK got off to a big start in 2005, with €58.9m of the €72.2m total. UK licenses over the five years are worth €119.35m
- Malta saw some €79.7m of guns go through the Island en route to Libya in 2009 - apparently sold via an Italian company
We wonder when comparable data for the US will be made public?
Update: an amusing incident regarding Malta's weapon exports: it appears that fat fingers are not only involved when crashing the S&P.
From Malta Today: 'Typing error' by Maltese agent causes Malta embarrassment over arms exports to Libya
A ‘typing error’ in documentation submitted to the Maltese government
by a Maltese handling agent of Italian arms manufacturing firm that
exported weapons to Italy, has led to Malta being erroneously being put
into the spotlight by a European report that alleged €80 million, rather
than €8 million worth of weapons transited through Malta from Italy to
Libya in 2009.
Information Director Martin Bugelli claimed that contrary to what
many may have assumed, Malta had only issued a transit export licence to
weapons firm ‘Beretta’, and the arms were never physically in Malta.
In a letter to the The Times yesterday, Italian ambassador Luigi
Marras questioned government’s explanation and said that Italy had only
exported €8 million worth of small arms to Libya in November 2009.
Bugelli claimed that company’s local agent, WJ Parnis England, has
formally admitted it had made a “typing error on the documentation
submitted to the Maltese government.”
In an official letter, which the government received from the agents
earlier today and which it made public, the company admitted that an
“extra 0” had been inadvertently typed in.
MaltaToday is informed that shortly after knowing of the Italian
ambassadors official reply, an investigation was launched and the local
agents found the mistake.
A government spokesman argued that the whole issue was a “storm in a teacup.”
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There are many realities.You have chosen yours.
No, there is not, dipshit. There is only the reality of this world we all live in. I hate philosophers. They live in a fantasy land.
I dont believe in mercy because of guys like you.
good luck.
No quarter, no mercy. I can live with that. Bring it.
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He/she wouldn't survive the experience.
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Soon he will have a brother to play with.
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We can call it Hatentimes day. Give us your address and we'll send cards and letters.
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The brits are so utterly corrupt i am left with no other option than to laugh. HA!
You are totally correct about this. I laugh as well.
We have been so used to playing geopolitical and empire games over hundreds of years that we don't realise the reality of our actions.
There is an attitude in the UK that being involved on the world stage is about doing good and educating the uneducated (a hangover from the empire) when in reality it is about dirty deeds and corruption. There is a lot of flowery language used by well educated establishment figures to justify what we would shout and howl about as corruption in other countries.
This attitude is changing becase more and more this hypocrisy is being called out for what it is.
Catching up is contagious
Churn the burn baby!!!
Anyone else catch the propaganda groundwork being laid down by the MSM for Pan 103 so they can muster up the excuse to intervene. Now Clinton wants to investigate Gadaffi how many years later because of the political purpose it serves?
BP will have his back. Corrupt Euros. Nothing changes.
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Must see!!!
All this chest beating is making me hungry.
Unlike many here i have seen, smelt and tasted war several times over and it never leaves you.
Somedays i could be in my workshop,sawing away at some wood or chiseling or whatever and i can smell it all of a sudden and i am taken back for a moment.
War is addictive,be careful because once you have tried it your hooked forever and you will never be the same again.
All this war makes a tidy profit for some but for most it is a deep scar that never heals and quite franckly sickens me.Imagine if we invested all of this money and our collective efforts into something productive,something that benefitted everyone.
Instead we beat our chests and talk tough on the internet about who beat who,what we will do to this nation or that.....................just aload of fucking blah blah blah that adds upto the square root of fuck all.
And if Putin is Europes daddy then Hu Jintao is definetly the US's big 'trilllions of dollars' sugar daddy.
Did you have a point to make, or were you just venting?
Rodent you must be in a pvc tube with trail mix leading you into a dark place with no return. Keep scratchin'!
I've made my point. I'll let history prove me right again. Not that libs remember that umimportant stuff. Good luck guys. I hope all your wishes come true.
WTF? Was there a CBW attack and I didn't get the memo? Now 2 threads with worse comments than me on my lips.
I'm just in a bad mood and unwilling to let the typical idiot lib college moron bullshit go by.
Got Ammo?
thats just me kidding... the real question is how many people are willing to pick up those weapons and shoot un-armed Lybians for Go-Daffy?
I am guessing that his circle is getting smaller and smaller as the days go by.
I think it is a shame that we (America) did not do more to make sure the un-armed people had a chance to at the very least shoot back at the merc.'s.
We (America) should have done more to help the people of Lybia over throw that evil fuck Go-Daffy.
Too bad European propaganda would have labeled us Imperialist if we had.
Let them suffer.
badass italian fighter jet;
http://www.worldwide-military.com/Military%20Aircraft/EU%20Fighters%20pl...
Or is the real reason for turning Gaddafi into the world's enemy something to do with his intention of a united Africa. Much of the money Libya re-invested has also been for projects benefical to other African countries. Though not a supporter of him nor his regime, i wonder why the other, African, side of the Libyan investment of oil revenues has had little discussion lately ?
So, we reach the bottom of the thread and, as usual, no one wants to defend Europe, they just want to shit on the US.
Nothing changes.
You defended Europe with your stupidity
But I support letting Europe blaze its own future by the US withdrawing all its support. Including living with trade deficits.
It's nice to see political threads devolve into biggest dick contests.
Can I play?
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Fifty years of Europe trying to hamstring us while we carried and paid for the shield.
Enough.
Have you ever thought that politics might be a biggest dick contest?
keyword here is 'small arms' and what that means.
I believe they 'fat fingered' like I believe that piigs can fly.
I know politics was a tricky dick contest until watergate cut off it's nuts.