{"id":6603,"date":"2008-06-10T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_vs_goliath_city_takes_on_bae_systems\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T22:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T22:25:00","slug":"david_vs_goliath_city_takes_on_bae_systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6603","title":{"rendered":"&#39;David vs. Goliath&#39;: City Takes On BAE Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British government was also investigating the deal. That probe had gotten so far as to gain access to Swiss bank accounts. But then the investigation was shut down. According to British court documents, Saudi Arabia threatened to kill another fighter plane deal with BAE that was being negotiated at the time. The Saudis also threatened to end their close intelligence and diplomatic relationship with the British government.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi threat to call off intelligence cooperation was taken very seriously. As the former director of Britain&#8217;s Serious Fraud Office testified, the Saudi ambassador to the U.K. put it to him this way: &#8220;British lives on British streets were at risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91332402\" title=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=91332402\">My goodness.  Listen to or read it all<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British government was also investigating the deal. That probe had gotten so far as to gain access to Swiss bank accounts. But then the investigation was shut down. According to British court documents, Saudi Arabia threatened to kill another<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6603\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,149,199,203,106,559],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-middle-east","category-military-armed-forces","category-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}